style="font-size:15px;"> Appointment. Assignation, assignment, agreement, arrangement; meeting, tryst; station, position, office, place; decree, command, order, edict, ordinance, mandate, requirement, law.
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Apportion. Appoint, allot, appropriate, divide, distribute, share, grant, dispense, assign, deal.
Ant. Retain, collect, consolidate, receive, gather, divert.
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Apposite. Apt, pertinent, suitable, seasonable, apropos, fit, applicable, adapted.
Ant. Untimely, irrelevant, unfitting, impertinent, misplaced.
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Appraise. Estimate, prize, value, rate, fix a price for, survey, assess, assize.
Ant. Undervalue, discard, misprize; discount, rebate, allow.
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Appreciate. Estimate justly, value highly, esteem, prize, raise the value of; recognize, respect.
Ant. Undervalue, misjudge, ignore, misconceive; depreciate, disdain.
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Apprehend. Arrest, seize, take, catch, capture; imagine, conceive, regard; perceive, realize, understand, appreciate; fear, forebode.
Ant. Miss, lose, misunderstand, ignore, misconceive.
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Apprehension. Arrest, capture; understanding, intelligence, mind, reason; notice, cognizance; conception, imagination; knowledge, discernment, perception, sense; opinion, fancy, sentiment, notion, fear, suspicion, anxiety.
Ant. Escape, non-detection; sensibility, emotion; apathy, lethargy; illiteracy, stupidity, stolidity; confidence, nonchalance.
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Apprise. Give notice, inform, tell, publish, advise, acquaint.
Ant. Deceive, mislead, hoodwink, mystify.
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Approach, v. Advance, draw near, bring near, go near, push; broach, address confidentially; resemble closely, be like, similar, or equal.
Ant. Diverge, retreat, go back; retard, restrain; be unlike.
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Approbation. Praise, commendation, approval, liking; support, consent, sanction, indorsement, concurrence, assent.
Ant. Censure, protest, denial, disapproval, dissatisfaction.
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Approve. Praise, commend, sanction, support, encourage, authorize.
Ant. Disparage, condemn, disown, repudiate, dislike.
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Approximation. Approach, nearness, similarity, likeness, contiguity, resemblance, propinquity, neighborhood.
Ant. Remoteness, variation, distance, difference, divergence.
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Appurtenant. Belonging, connected, appended, attached, coordinate.
Ant. Isolated, detached, unallied, independent.
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A priori. Theoretically; necessarily, apodictically, constitutionally, absolutely, primordially, inductively.
Ant. A posteriori; practically, according to experience; deductively from facts.
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Apropos. Opportune, seasonable, apposite, timely, apt, suitable.
Ant. Inopportune, irrelevant, untimely, inapt, unsuitable.
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Aptitude. Disposition, knack, endowment, tendency, inclination, fitness, suitability, bias, propensity.
Ant. Unreadiness, unskilfulness, repugnance, incongruity.
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Arbiter. Umpire, judge, referee; controller, master, lord.
Ant. Appellant, claimant, litigant, disputant.
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Arbitrary. Despotic, autocratic, tyrannical, overbearing, peremptory; capricious, wilful, fanciful; imperious, dictatorial.
Ant. Considerate, lenient, obliging, equitable.
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Arbitration. Mediation, intercession, interposition, intervention; arbitrament, umpirage, trial, judgment, decision.
Ant. Litigation, contention, disputation, appeal, dissension.
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Ardent. Passionate, fervent, intense, vehement, fierce, fiery; hot, burning; zealous, enthusiastic, strenuous.
Ant. Cool, cold, indifferent, torpid, apathetic, dispassionate, phlegmatic.
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Argument. Reasoning, proof, evidence, controversy, discussion, debate; subject, topic, theme, thesis; summary, abstract, outline.
Ant. Assertion, assumption; dogma.
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Aridity. Dryness, parchedness, sterility, unfertility, barrenness; dulness, indifference, torpidity, insensibility.
Ant. Moisture, fertility, verdancy, luxuriance, productivity.
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Arise. Ascend, mount, get up, stand up; rebel, revolt; result, eventuate.
Ant. Descend, dismount; submit, cower; cause, instigate.
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Aristocracy. Government of nobles; nobility, peerage, gentry.
Ant. Democracy; people, populace, masses, rabble.
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Arm, v. Equip, array, furnish, gird, accouter, provide; fortify, cover, protect, guard; prepare.
Ant. Divest, disarm; expose.
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Army. Soldiery, legion, armament, forces, host, phalanx, troops.
Ant. Individual; citizens.
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Aromatic. Fragrant, spicy, balmy, redolent, odoriferous, ambrosial.
Ant. Scentless, malodorous, fetid, offensive, noisome, rank.
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Arouse. Excite, provoke, instigate, stimulate, animate, kindle, warm, whet, summon, awaken.
Ant. Allay, mitigate, moderate, still, quiet, assuage,
