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Building. Architecture, edifice, structure, fabric, pile, erection.

Ant. Ruin, demolition, dilapidation, dismantlement.

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Bulk. Magnitude, size, volume, mass; greatness, amplitude, massiveness; majority, major part, most, principal part; dimension.

Ant. Portion, section, atom, particle; diminution, tenuity, contraction, dismemberment, disintegration.

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Bulwark. Rampart, fortress, fortification, stronghold, intrenchment, bastion, parapet, citadel.

Ant. Siege, bombardment, cannonade, boarding, storming.

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Bungler. Botcher, clown, fumbler, clumsy workman, novice.

Ant. Adept, adroit, master, artist, proficient workman, professor.

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Buoy, v. Float, support, sustain; elevate, inspire, assure, animate, cheer.

Ant. Sink, drown, depress, swamp; crush, betray, fail, deject, overcome.

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Buoyant. Light; cheerful, hopeful, sprightly, vivacious, joyous, blithesome, jocund, sportive, jubilant, elastic, floating.

Ant. Heavy, dejected, depressed, moody, joyless, cheerless, desponding.

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Burden. Load, weight; cargo, freight; capacity, tonnage: impediment, incubus, grievance, trial, trouble, affliction, sorrow; chorus, refrain; topic, drift, tenor, point, substance.

Ant. Ease, lightness; facility, airiness, light-heartedness; consolation, assuagement, alleviation, liberation, mitigation.

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Burial. Interment, sepulture, entombment, burying.

Ant. Exhumation, disinterment.

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Burlesque. Parody, travesty, caricature, ridicule, farce.

Ant. Classic, history, fact.

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Burn. Char, consume, cremate, scorch, set on fire, singe, ignite, incinerate, kindle, blaze, cauterize, glow, smolder.

Ant. Smother, stifle, subdue, extinguish, cool, put out; subside, glimmer, lower, pale.

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Burnish. Brighten, polish, make to glisten, glaze, gloss.

Ant. Dull, bedim, cloud, scratch, abrade.

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Burst. Break, open, explode, blow up, rend, split, crack, discharge, shatter, disrupt.

Ant. Cohere, hold, stand, stick together, adhere.

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Bury. Inter, cover up, entomb, inearth, inhume, inurn; shroud, conceal, secrete, hide; immure, confine; cancel, compose, hush, cover with oblivion.

Ant. Resurrect, exhume, disinter, excavate, expose, resuscitate; publish, announce, advertise.

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Business. Employment, craft, trade, commerce, handicraft, traffic, transaction, work, vocation, job, affairs, avocation, profession, occupation, calling, concern, duty, office, interest.

Ant. Stagnation, leisure, inactivity.

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Bustle. Activity, stir, commotion, excitement, haste, hurry, energy, eagerness, flurry.

Ant. Idleness, inactivity, vacation, stagnation, quiet, indolence, indifference, unconcern.

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Busy. Engaged, employed, occupied; diligent, industrious, active, working, sedulous; brisk, stirring, bustling, agile, spry, nimble; meddling, officious.

Ant. Idle, lazy, indolent, slothful.

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But. Save, except, furthermore, barely, besides, however, just, only, notwithstanding, though, unless, yet, still, merely, nevertheless, provided, moreover.

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Buxom. Bonny, blithe, shapely.

Ant. Lean, slender, ill-shaped.

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Buy. Purchase, bargain, acquire; bribe, corrupt, pervert, suborn, subsidize.

Ant. Sell, hawk, retail, vend.

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By. Through, with; at, on; from, according to; near, close by; past; along, over; before, in the sight of, in the name of; per, at.

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Cabal. Confederacy, conspiracy, conclave, combination, faction, crew, junto, gang, coterie, plot, political intrigue, league.

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Cadaverous. Bloodless, pallid, pale, wan, ghastly, deathlike, ashy.

Ant. Rosy, blushing, sanguine, incarnadine.

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Cage, v. Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate.

Ant. Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar.

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Caitiff. Rascal, miscreant, villain, wretch, coward, sneak, traitor, scoundrel, vagabond.