Rare, scarce, scant, deficient, short, insufficient, niggardly, sparing, dry, drained, exhausted, impoverished.
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Abuse \v.\
SYN: Injure, damage, spoil, maltreat, treat-all, ill-use, ill-treat, retile, scandalize, disparage, reproach, upbraid, asperse, malign, slander, vituperate, prostitute, defame, pervert, misuse, misemploy, vilify.
ANT: Tend, protect, conserve, consider, regard, shield, cherish, praise, extol, laud, vindicate, panegyrize, respect.
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Abuse \n.\
SYN: Mistreatment, invective, ill-treatment, opprobrium, scurrility, vituperation, ribaldry, obloquy, reproach, insolence, misusage, ill-usage.
ANT: Good-usage, good-treatment, kindness, praise, deference, respect.
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Abusive.
SYN: Insulting, insolent, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, vituperative, rude, denunciatory, scurrilous.
ANT: Respectful, kind, panegyrical, laudatory, attentive.
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Abut.
SYN: Extend, project, impinge, approximate.
ANT: Recurve, retreat, diverge, return, recede.
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Abyss.
SYN: Gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth.
ANT: Surface, cavity, depression, indentation.
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Academical.
SYN: Collegiate, classical, learned.
ANT: Illiterate, uncollegiate.
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Academy.
SYN: School, seminary, college, university, educational, establishment, institute.
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Accede.
SYN: Assent, consent, acquiesce, comply with, accept, concur, approve, coincide.
ANT: Dissent, decline, withdraw, refuse, protest, demur.
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Accelerate.
SYN: Hasten, urge, expedite, quicken, speed, urge on, press forward, hurry, promote, dispatch, facilitate.
ANT: Delay, obstruct, impede, clog, retard, hinder, shackle, drag.
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Accent.
SYN: Stress, rhythm, pulsation, beat, emphasis.
ANT: Smoothness, inaccentuation, monotony, equableness, babble, flow.
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Accept.
SYN: Welcome, hail, admit, recognize, avow, acknowledge, take, accede to, receive, assent to.
ANT: Refuse, decline, reject, disown, disavow, ignore, repudiate.
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Acceptable.
SYN: Grateful, pleasant, welcome, agreeable, pleasure, seasonable, gratifying.
ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant.
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Acceptation.
SYN: Meaning, significant, signification.
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Access.
SYN: Approach, admit, course entrance, avenue, admittance, mod way, passage, road.
ANT: Exit, egress, departure, exclusion, repulse.
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Accessible.
SYN: Affable, approachable, easy, conversible.
ANT: Distant, cold, difficult, unapproachable.
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Accession.
SYN: Arrival, addition, increase, influx, augmentation, reinforcement, enlargement, extension.
ANT: Departure, abandonment, resignation, retirement, diminution, decrease, efflux, ebb, drain, subsidence.
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Accessary, [See ACCESSORY].
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Accessory \a.\
SYN: Assistant, additive, additional, auxiliary, supplementary, conducive.
ANT: Essential, inherent, immanent, incorporate, superfluous, irrelevant, malapropos, obstructive, cumbersome.
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Accessory \n.\
SYN: Accomplice, associate, abettor, ally, colleague, confederate, helper.
ANT: Foe, antagonist, adversary, rival.
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Accident.
SYN: Chance, fortuity, disaster, incident, adventure, casualty, hazard, contingency, calamity, misadventure, mishap.
ANT: Law, purpose, appointment, ordainment, provision, preparation.
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Acclamation.
SYN: Applause, homage, gratulation, salutation, joy, commendation, plaudit, hosannas, cheer, shouting, exultation, triumph, approval.
ANT: Obloquy, censure, execration, contumely, outcry, sibilation, denunciation.
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Acclivity.
SYN: Ascent, rise, incline.
ANT: Declivity, descent.
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Accommodate.
SYN: Convenience, oblige, adapt, supply, reconcile, suit, fit, adjust, furnish, serve, harmonize.
ANT: Inconvenience, disoblige, disturb, misfit, incommode, deprive, aggravate.
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Accommodating.
SYN: Kind, unselfish, obliging, polite, yielding, conciliatory.
ANT: Disobliging, selfish, churlish, rude, imperious, dictatorial, exacting, inconsiderate, unaccommodating.
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