Firm, inflexible, unswerving, constant, decided, serious.
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Captious. Carping, hypercritical, censorious; crabbed, snappish, touchy, cross, snarling, acrimonious, contentious; insidious, ensnaring.
Ant. Appreciative, commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, approving.
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Captivate. Charm, enchant, fascinate, enamor, bewitch, please highly, lead captive, win, catch.
Ant. Disenchant, disillusionize; disgust.
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Captivity. Thraldom, confinement, duress, imprisonment, bondage, subjection, slavery, servitude, durance.
Ant. Freedom, liberty, independence.
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Capture. Seize, catch, arrest, apprehend, make captive; prize.
Ant. Liberate, free, release; acquit.
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Care. Anxiety, trouble, solicitude, concern, vigilance, worry, charge, caution, attention, heed, forethought, management, perplexity, watchfulness, wariness, precaution, oversight, prudence.
Ant. Indifference, heedlessness, negligence, oversight, remissness, slight, recklessness, disregard, carelessness, inattention.
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Career. Course, line of achievement, passage, race, flight, procedure, conduct, progress, active life, success.
Careful. Thoughtful, provident, considerate, reflective, heedful, diligent, pensive, regardful, contemplative.
Ant. Careless, thoughtless, improvident, unthinking, heedless, inconsiderate, rash, wanton, idle, dreamy, trifling.
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Caress, v. Embrace, fondle, kiss, pet, pamper, coddle, court, flatter.
Ant. Vex, tease, affront, annoy, provoke, persecute.
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Cargo. Freight, load, goods, lading, consignment, merchandise.
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Caricature. Imitation, mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, exaggeration, extravaganza, takeoff, farce, monstrosity.
Ant. Portraiture, resemblance, representation, reproduction.
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Carnage. Massacre, bloodshed, slaughter, havoc, butchery.
Ant. Deliverance, ransom, quarter, redemption.
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Carnal. Sensual, fleshly, lustful, lascivious; natural, unregenerate, earthly, temporal.
Ant. Spiritual, ethereal, refined, pure, exalted, temperate, self-controlled.
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Carnival. Festival, revel, masquerade, rout.
Ant. Fast, retirement, Lent, penance, mortification.
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Carol. Sing, warble, chirp, twitter, chant, whistle, hum; hymn.
Ant. Whine, lament, dirge, cry, croak, weep, groan, moan.
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Carousal. Feast, festival, banquet, revel, debauch, wassail, orgies.
Ant. Fast, abstinence, starvation; temperance, moderation; self-denial.
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Carp. Cavil, find fault, object to, pick flaws, challenge, censure, hypercriticize.
Ant. Concede, admit, compliment, approve, applaud, acquiesce, assent.
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Carpet. Covering for floor; table or board (metaphorical), consideration, consultation.
Ant. Shelf (metaphorical), rejection, oblivion, disposal.
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Carry. Convey, move, transport, lift, bring, bear, transmit, support, sustain, take; impel, urge, push forward; signify, infer, involve, implicate.
Ant. Drop, let go, throw down, fall under, shake off; retard, impede; leave, be separate from.
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Case. Box; covering, sheathe; state, condition, plight, predicament; instance, example, occurrence; circumstance, event, contingency; suit, action, process, trial, cause; question, subject of discussion; form, inflection.
Ant. Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture; generalization, principle, universality.
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Cash. Coin, money, specie, currency, capital.
Ant. Paper money, greenbacks, bills.
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Cast. Hurl, throw, pitch, fling, drive, thrust, sling, toss; shed, lay aside; calculate, compute, reckon; found, form; direct, turn; assign, appoint, allot; impart, shed, diffuse, communicate.
Ant. Raise, elevate, erect; accept, approve, retain, carry; miscalculate; break, dismember, dissipate.
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Caste. Grade, rank, order, lineage, dignity, respect.
Ant. Abasement, degradation, disrepute, taboo, reproach, ostracism.
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Castigate. Whip, flagellate, cane.
Ant. Reward, encourage, caress, pat.
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Casual. Accidental, incidental, fortuitous, chance, contingent.
Ant. Regular, certain, fixed, ordinary, periodic, systematic.
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Casuistry. Sophistry, fallacy, quibble; refinement.
Ant. Reason, common sense, conscience.
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Catalogue. List, register, index, enrolment, entry, record, roll, inventory, schedule.
Ant. Non-registration, obliteration, oblivion, forgetfulness; non-entry, oversight, omission.
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Catastrophe. Revolution, disaster, mishap, misfortune, calamity, cataclysm, blow, visitation.
Ant. Victory, triumph, benefit, ovation, success, felicitation, blessing.
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Catch. Grasp, seize, clutch, capture, clasp, secure, snatch, take, arrest, ensnare, entrap, grip, lay hold; comprehend, apprehend, understand.
Ant. Lose, miss, fail of, let
