Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/01

• a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, amabile, amoroso, appassionatamente, appassionato, brillante, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, dolce, forte, fortissimo, lamentabile, leggiero, morendo, parlando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, scherzando, scherzoso, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando

• a la mode, advanced, avant-garde, chic, contemporary, dashing, exclusive, far out, fashionable, fashionably, forward-looking, in, in the mode, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, modishly, newfashioned, now, present-day, present-time, progressive, soigne, soignee, streamlined, stylish, stylishly, tony, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vogue, voguish, way out

• a priori, a fortiori, a posteriori, analytic, back, backward, categorical, conditional, deducible, deductive, derivable, dialectic, discursive, dogmatic, early, enthymematic, epagogic, ex post facto, hypothetical, inductive, inferential, into the past, maieutic, reasoned, retroactive, retrospective, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic

• A-bomb, H-bomb, atomic bomb, atomic warhead, clean bomb, cobalt bomb, dirty bomb, fusion bomb, hell bomb, hydrogen bomb, limited nuclear weapons, nuclear artillery, nuclear explosive, nuclear warhead, plutonium bomb, superbomb, tactical nuclear weapons, thermonuclear bomb, thermonuclear warhead

• ab ovo, ab initio, aborigine, afresh, again, anew, as new, at first, at the start, basal, basic, before everything, chiefly, constituent, constitutive, de novo, elemental, elementary, essential, first, first and foremost, first thing, firstly, freshly, from scratch, from the beginning, fundamental, gut, in the beginning, initially, mainly, material, new, newly, of the essence, once more, original, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primitive, primo, principally, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying

• Abaddon, Aeshma, Angra Mainyu, Apollyon, Azazel, Beelzebub, Belial, Eblis, Gehenna, Hades, Lilith, Mephisto, Mephistopheles, Naraka, Pandemonium, Putana, Sammael, Shaitan, Sheol, Tophet, avichi, hell, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld

• abandon, abandonment, abjection, abjure, abort, abscond, acknowledge defeat, ardency, ardor, back out, beat a retreat, beg a truce, beg off, belay, boundlessness, bow out, break the habit, brush aside, brush off, cancel, capitulate, careless abandon, carelessness, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, casualness, cease, cede, chuck, come to terms, commitment, committedness, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craze, cry off, cry pax, cry quits, cursoriness, cut, cut it out, debasement, decadence, decadency, dedication, deep-six, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delirium, demoralization, depart from, depravation, depravedness, depravity, desert, desist, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, disappear, discard, discontinue, disgorge, dismiss, dispense with, dispose of, disregardfulness, dissoluteness, disuse, ditch, do without, drop, drop it, drop out, drop the subject, dump, earnestness, ease, easiness, ecstasy, egregiousness, eighty-six, eliminate, end, enormousness, evacuate, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, exuberance, fabulousness, faith, faithfulness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, fire and fury, forget, forget about it, forget it, forgetfulness, forgo, forsake, forswear, freedom, frenzy, fun, furor, furore, fury, games, get along without, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, giantism, gigantism, give away, give over, give up, gluttony, go back on, goldbrick, goof off, halt, hand over, hastiness, have done with, heartiness, heat, heatedness, heedlessness, hold, hyperbole, hypertrophy, hysteria, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impassionedness, implore mercy, impulsiveness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incontinence, indifference, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insouciance, intemperance, intemperateness, intensity, intentness, intoxication, irrepressibility, jettison, jilt, jump, junk, kick, kiss good-bye, knock it off, lack of foresight, laxity, laxness, lay aside, lay off, laziness, leave, leave behind, leave flat, leave loose ends, leave off, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let it go, let slip, liberty, license, licentiousness, looseness, loyalty, madness, make a sacrifice, malinger, maroon, miss, monstrousness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, naturalness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, oblivion, offhandedness, omit, orgasm, orgy, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, part with, pass over, pass up, passion, passionateness, perfunctoriness, permissiveness, play, pray for quarter, pretermit, procrastinate, profligacy, pull out, push aside, put aside, quit, quit cold, quitclaim, radicalism, rage, rapture, ravishment, recant, recklessness, refrain, regardlessness, reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renege, renounce, reprobacy, repudiate, resign, resolution, retire, retract, retreat, riotousness, rottenness, run out on, sacrifice, say goodbye to, say uncle, scrap, scrub, seriousness, set aside, shake, shirk, shrug off, sincerity, skip, slack, slough, sneeze at, spare, spirit, spontaneity, sport, sprezzatura, stand down, stay, stop, surrender, swear off, tactlessness, take leave of, take the pledge, tearing passion, terminate, think nothing of, thoughtlessness, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, thrust aside, too much, too-muchness, toss overboard, towering rage, transport, trifle, turn away from, turn up, turpitude, unconscionableness, unconstrained, unconstraint, uncontrol, undueness, unheedfulness, uninhibitedness, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unstrictness, unthinkingness, vacate, vanish, vehemence, waive, wantonness, warmth, wildness, withdraw, yield, yield the palm, zeal

• abandoned, a bit much, abjured, afire, amok, antiquated, antique, archaic, ardent, available, bellowing, berserk, boundless, burning, carried away, cast-off, castaway, ceded, committed, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, dedicated, defenseless, degenerate, degraded, delirious, demoniac, depraved, derelict, deserted, desolate, devoted, devout, discarded, discontinued, disowned, dispensed with, disposed of, disregarded, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, disused, done with, earnest, ecstatic, egregious, enormous, enraptured, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, faithful, fancy, fast, fatherless, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forgone, forlorn, forsaken, forsworn, frantic, free, frenzied, friendless, fulminating, furious, gallant, gay, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, godforsaken, haggard, half-done, hearty, heated, helpless, high, hog-wild, homeless, hot, hot-blooded, howling, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, hysterical, ignored, immoderate, impassioned, in a transport, in earnest, in hysterics, incontinent, incorrigible, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, irrepressible, jettisoned, kithless, laid aside, lascivious, lax, lecherous, left, left undone, lewd, licentious, loose, lost to shame, loyal, mad, madding, maniac, marooned, missed, monstrous, morally polluted, motherless, neglected, nonrestrictive, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, omitted, on fire, on the shelf, open, orgasmic, orgiastic, out, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, out of use, out-of-date, outcast, outdated, outmoded, outrageous, outside the gates, outside the pale, outworn, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overlooked, overmuch, overweening, passed by, passed over, passed up, passionate, past use, pensioned off, perfervid, permissive, perverted, pigeonholed, polluted, possessed, profligate, put aside, rabid, raging, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, recanted, red-hot, reinless, rejected, released, relinquished, renounced, reprobate, resigned, resolute, retired, retracted, riotous, roaring, rotten, running mad, sacrificed, serious, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, sincere, slighted, solitary, spirited, steep, steeped in iniquity, stiff, storming, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, surrendered, tainted, tenantless, too much, transported, unasked, unattended to, unbridled, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconsidered, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncurbed, undone, undue, unfilled, unforced, unfriended, ungoverned, uninhabited, uninhibited, unmanned, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unprincipled, unreasonable, unregarded, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsolicited, unstaffed, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untaken, untenanted, untended, unwatched, vacant, vehement, vice-corrupted, violent, vitiated, waived, wanton, warm, warped, white-hot, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, worn-out, yielded, zealous

• abase, abash, bring down, bring low, bump, bust, cast down, cower, cringe, crush, debase, degrade, demean, demote, deplume, diminish, disgrade, displume, downgrade, dump, dump on, fawn, grovel, humble, humiliate, lower, put down, reduce, set down, sink, strip of rank, take down, toady, trip up, truckle

• abasement, bump, bust, casting down, comedown, debasement, deflation, degradation, degrading, demotion, depluming, descent, disgrace, disgrading, displuming, downgrading, dump, embarrassment, hangdog look, humbled pride, humbling, humiliation, letdown, mortification, put-down, reduction, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, stripping of rank

• abash, abase, appall, astound, bewilder, bother, bring down, bring low, cast down, chagrin, confound, confuse, crush, debase, degrade, demean, diminish, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dismay, disturb, dump, dump on, embarrass, faze, flummox, humble, humiliate, lower, moider, mortify, perturb, pother, put down, put out, rattle, reduce, set down, take aback, take down, throw into confusion, trip up, upset

• abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, ashamed, astray, at sea, beset, bewildered, blushing, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, clueless, confused, crestfallen, crushed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, guessing, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, lost, mazed, mortified, off the track, out of countenance, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, troubled, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, without a clue

• abate, ablate, abolish, abrade, abrogate, abstract, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow, alter, anesthetize, annihilate, annul, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away, benumb, blot out, blunt, box in, charge off, chasten, circumscribe, close, condition, constrain, consume, consume away, control, corrode, cramp, cripple, crumble, curtail, cushion, cut, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debilitate, decline, decrease, deduct, deliquesce, depreciate, derogate, detract, devitalize, die away, die down, dilute, diminish, discount, disparage, dive, downplay, drain, drop, drop off, dull, dwindle, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, enervate, enfeeble, eradicate, erode, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extract, fall, fall away, fall off, file away, foment, give relief, gruel, hedge, hedge about, impair, invalidate, keep within bounds, kick back, languish, lay, lay low, leach, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, lighten, limit, loose, loosen, lull, make allowance, melt away, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, narrow, negate, nullify, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, play down, plummet, plunge, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, purify, qualify, quash, rattle, rebate, recede, reduce, reduce the temperature, refine, refund, regulate by, relax, relent, relieve, remit, remove, restrain, restrict, retrench, root out, rub away, run its course, run low, sag, salve, sap, season, set conditions, set limits, shake, shake up, shorten, shrink, sink, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, stifle, stupe, subduct, subdue, subside, subtract, suppress, tail off, take a premium, take away, take from, take off, tame, taper, taper off, temper, thin, thin out, tone down, tune down, unbend, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undo, unman, unnerve, unstrain, unstrengthen, unstring, vitiate, wane, waste, waste away, water down, weaken, wear, wear away, weed, wipe out, withdraw, write off

• abatement, abridgment, agio, allayment, alleviation, allowance, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, bank discount, blunting, breakage, calming, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, concession, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, devitalization, dilution, diminishment, diminution, discount, drawback, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, fatigue, hushing, inanition, kickback, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, quietening, quieting, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, rollback, sagging, salvage, salving, scaling down, setoff, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tare, tempering, thinning, time discount, trade discount, tranquilization, tret, underselling, weakening, write-off

• abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work

• abbe, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, chaplain, churchman, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate, cure, divine, ecclesiastic, man of God, military chaplain, minister, padre, parson, pastor, rector, reverend, servant of God, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric

• abbess, canoness, chatelaine, clergywoman, conventual, dame, dowager, first lady, goodwife, governess, great lady, homemaker, housewife, lady superior, madam, matriarch, matron, mistress, mother superior, novice, nun, postulant, prioress, religieuse, secular canoness, sister, superioress, the reverend mother

• abbot, abbacomes, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite

• abbreviate, abridge, abstract, attenuate, be telegraphic, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, boil down, bowdlerize, cancel, capsulize, censor, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, decrease, delete, dock, draw, draw in, draw together, edit, edit out, elide, epitomize, erase, expunge, expurgate, extenuate, foreshorten, kill, knit, mow, narrow, nip, omit, poll, pollard, prune, pucker, pucker up, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rescind, retrench, rub out, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snub, solidify, strangle, strangulate, strike, strike off, strike out, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, void, waste no words, wrinkle

• abbreviated, Spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

• abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, astriction, astringency, blue-penciling, bottleneck, bowdlerization, brief, cancellation, capsule, censoring, censorship, cervix, circumscription, clipping, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compend, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, condensed version, consolidation, conspectus, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crasis, curtailment, cutting, decrease, deletion, digest, diminuendo, draft, editing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, erasure, expurgation, foreshortening, head, hourglass, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, omission, outline, overview, pandect, precis, pruning, puckering, pursing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, review, rubric, shortened version, shortening, skeleton, sketch, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, striking, summary, summation, survey, syllabus, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, systole, telescoping, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling

• abdicate, abandon, abjure, acknowledge defeat, be pensioned, be superannuated, cashier, cast, cease, cede, cry quits, demit, desist from, drop, forgo, forswear, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, jettison, lay down, leave, leave off, pension off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, scrap, shed, slough, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, surrender, throw away, throw out, throw up, vacate, waive, withdraw from, wrest, yield

• abdication, abjuration, abjurement, cession, demission, deposal, dropping out, emeritus status, forced resignation, forswearing, handing over, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, retiral, retirement, superannuation, surrender, voluntary resignation, waiver, withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding

• abdomen, abomasum, anus, appendix, bay window, beerbelly, belly, blind gut, bowels, brain, breadbasket, cecum, colon, corporation, craw, crop, diaphragm, duodenum, embonpoint, endocardium, entrails, first stomach, foregut, giblets, gizzard, gullet, gut, guts, heart, hindgut, honeycomb stomach, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, manyplies, maw, middle, midgut, midriff, midsection, omasum, paunch, perineum, pod, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, pylorus, rectum, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, small intestine, spare tire, spleen, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, ticker, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, venter, ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

• abdominal, anal, appendical, big-bellied, cardiac, cecal, celiac, colic, colonic, coronary, duodenal, enteric, gastric, ileac, intestinal, jejunal, mesogastric, pyloric, rectal, splanchnic, stomachal, stomachic, ventral, ventricular, visceral

• abduction, apprehension, arrest, arrestation, capture, catch, catching, collaring, coup, crimping, dragnet, forcible seizure, grab, grabbing, hold, impressment, kidnapping, nabbing, picking up, power grab, prehension, running in, seizure, seizure of power, shanghaiing, snatch, snatching, taking in, taking into custody

• abecedarian, aboriginal, allographic, alphabetarian, alphabetic, antenatal, apprentice, articled clerk, autochthonous, beginner, beginning, boot, budding, capital, catechumen, certified teacher, creative, dabbler, debutant, dilettante, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, elemental, elementary, embryonic, entrant, fellow, fetal, fledgling, formative, foundational, freshman, fundamental, gestatory, graphemic, greenhorn, guide, guru, ideographic, ignoramus, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inductee, infant, infantile, initial, initiate, initiative, initiatory, instructor, introductory, inventive, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, maestro, majuscule, master, melamed, mentor, minuscular, minuscule, mullah, nascent, natal, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, nonprofessional, novice, novitiate, original, pandit, parturient, pedagogist, pedagogue, pictographic, postnatal, postulant, preceptor, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, probationer, probationist, procreative, professor, pundit, rabbi, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, rudimental, rudimentary, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, smatterer, starets, teacher, tenderfoot, transliterated, tyro, uncial, upper-case, ur

• abecedary, abecedarium, alphabet book, and arithmetic, battledore, casebook, elementary education, elements, exercise book, first steps, gradus, grammar, hornbook, initiation, introduction, manual, manual of instruction, primer, propaedeutic, reader, reading, rudiments, schoolbook, speller, spelling book, t, text, workbook, writing

• aberrant, aberrative, abnormal, abominable, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, askew, astray, at fault, atrocious, atypical, awry, beside the mark, circuitous, corrupt, criminal, deceptive, defective, delinquent, delusive, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviational, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, digressive, discursive, disgraceful, disparate, distorted, divergent, eccentric, errant, erratic, erring, erroneous, evil, exceptional, excursive, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, formless, hardly the thing, heretical, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, ignominious, illegal, illogical, illusory, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, indirect, infamous, irregular, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, not done, not right, not the thing, not true, odd, off, off the track, off-base, off-color, out, out-of-line, out-of-the-way, peccant, peculiar, perverse, perverted, planetary, preternatural, rambling, roving, sacrilegious, scandalous, self-contradictory, serpentine, shameful, shameless, shapeless, shifting, sinful, snaky, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, swerving, terrible, turning, twisting, undirected, undue, unfactual, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unrepresentative, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, untrue, untypical, unusual, vagrant, veering, wandering, wicked, wide, winding, wrong, wrongful, zigzag

• aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, abet, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, bend, bias, brain damage, brainsickness, branching off, centrifugence, circuitousness, clouded mind, conceit, corner, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiosity, curve, daftness, decentralization, declination, defectiveness, deflection, deflexure, delusion, dementedness, dementia, departure, deployment, derangement, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentness, digression, discursion, disorientation, distortion, distraction, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, division, dogleg, dottiness, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, errancy, errantry, erraticism, erraticness, erroneousness, error, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fanning, fanning out, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, folie, foment, freakiness, freakishness, furor, hairpin, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illusion, indirection, indirectness, inferiority, insaneness, insanity, instigate, irrationality, irregularity, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, monstrosity, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, oddness, peccancy, peculiarity, pererration, perversion, pixilation, possession, prodigy, provoke, psychopathy, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, raise, rambling, rarity, reasonlessness, self-contradiction, senselessness, separation, set, set on, shattered mind, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick mind, sickness, sin, sinfulness, singularity, skew, skewness, slant, slip, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, stir up, strangeness, straying, subnormality, superiority, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, teratism, transverseness, trick, turn, turning, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unconventionality, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, witlessness, wrong, wrongness, yaw, zigzag

• abet, advance, advocate, aid, aid and abet, approve of, ask for, assist, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, comfort, condone, countenance, do for, do good, doctor, ease, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, endorse, exhort, favor, feed, foment, foster, further, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give encouragement, give help, go for, goad, hearten, help, help out, incite, instigate, invite, keep in countenance, lend a hand, lend one aid, nourish, nurture, prod, proffer aid, promote, protect, provoke, raise, rally, reclaim, redeem, relieve, remedy, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, sanction, save, second, set, set on, set up, shine upon, smile upon, spur, stead, stir up, subscribe, succor, support, take in tow, uphold, urge, whip up

• abettor, Maecenas, accessory, accomplice, accomplice in crime, actuator, admirer, advocate, aficionado, angel, animator, apologist, backer, buff, cajoler, champion, coax, coaxer, coconspirator, cohort, confederate, conspirator, defender, dependence, encourager, endorser, energizer, exponent, fan, favorer, fellow conspirator, firer, friend at court, gadfly, galvanizer, impeller, inducer, inspirer, lover, mainstay, maintainer, mover, moving spirit, paranymph, partisan, patron, persuader, pleader, prime mover, promoter, prompter, protagonist, reliance, second, seconder, sectary, sider, socius criminis, spark, spark plug, sparker, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stimulator, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, tempter, upholder, votary, well-wisher, wheedler

• abeyance, abandonment, abjuration, abjurement, apathy, break, caesura, catalepsy, catatonia, cease-fire, cessation, cold storage, day off, deadliness, deathliness, desistance, discontinuance, doldrums, dormancy, drop, entropy, forbearance, hesitation, holiday, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, languor, lapse, latency, layoff, letup, lotus-eating, lull, nonexercise, passiveness, passivity, pause, quiescence, quiescency, recess, relinquishment, remission, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, respite, rest, stagnancy, stagnation, stand-down, stasis, stay, suspense, suspension, torpor, truce, vacation, vegetation, vis inertiae, waiver

• abhor, abominate, be hostile to, contemn, detest, disapprove of, disdain, disfavor, dislike, disrelish, execrate, hate, hold in abomination, loathe, mislike, not care for, scorn, scout, shudder at, utterly detest

• abhorrent, abominable, antipathetic, averse to, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusted, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, hating, heinous, horrid, ignoble, intolerable, invidious, loathing, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mislikable, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive, sickening, stinking, uncongenial, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unpleasant, unsympathetic, vile

• abide by, accede, accept, acclaim, acquiesce, acquiesce in, act up to, adhere to, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, assent, attend to, be faithful to, buy, cheer, comply, comply with, conform to, consent, do justice to, fill, follow, fulfill, give the nod, hail, heed, hold by, hold with, in toto, keep, keep faith with, live up to, make good, meet, nod, nod assent, observe, receive, regard, respect, satisfy, subscribe to, take kindly to, vote for, welcome, yes, yield assent

• abide, abide in, abide with, accede, accept, adhere, await, be big, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be content with, be easy with, be present in, be still, bear, bear with, berth, bide, bide the issue, blink at, brave, brook, bunk, carry on, carry through, cease not, cleave, cling, coast, cohabit, condone, consent, consist in, continue, continue to be, dally, dawdle, defeat time, defy time, delay, dig, dillydally, disregard, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, drag on, dwell, dwell in, endure, exist, exist in, extend, freeze, go, go along, go on, hang about, hang around, hang in, hang in there, hang out, hang tough, hold, hold everything, hold on, hold out, hold steady, hold your horses, ignore, inhabit, inhere in, jog on, judge not, keep, keep going, keep on, keep quiet, last, last long, last out, lean over backwards, lie in, lie still, linger, listen to reason, live, live on, live through, live with, lodge, loiter, lump, lump it, maintain, mark time, nest, never cease, not breathe, not stir, not write off, occupy, overlook, perch, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, prevail, put up with, receive, remain, remain motionless, repose, repose in, reside, reside in, rest, rest in, room, roost, run, run on, see both sides, sit tight, sit up, sit up for, slog on, squat, stagger on, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand for, stand still, stay, stay on, stay put, stay up, stay up for, stick, stick around, stick fast, stomach, subsist, subsist in, suffer, support, survive, suspend judgment, sustain, swallow, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, take, take time, take up with, tarry, tenant, tide over, tolerate, tread water, view with indulgence, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wait for, wait on, wait up for, watch, watch and wait, wear, wear well, wink at

• abiding, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, changeless, chronic, commorant, constant, continuing, continuous, diuturnal, durable, dwelling, enduring, evergreen, firm, fixed, frozen, hardy, immobile, immutable, in residence, indefatigable, intact, intransient, inveterate, inviolate, lasting, living, living in, lodging, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, never-failing, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quiescent, remaining, resident, residentiary, residing, rigid, sempervirent, solid, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, sustained, torpid, tough, unaltered, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unqualified, unquestioning, unremitting, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, vital, wholehearted

• ability, ableness, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, airmanship, aptitude, aptness, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, bump, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, capital, cleverness, command, competence, competency, condition, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, devices, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, disposable resources, dower, dowry, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, equipment, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, faculty, finesse, fitness, fittedness, flair, forte, funds, genius, gift, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, instinct, knack, know-how, long suit, makings, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, maturity, means, method, metier, might, natural endowment, natural gift, parts, potential, power, powers, practical ability, preparedness, proficiency, prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness, recourses, resorts, resource, resourcefulness, resources, ripeness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seasoning, skill, skillfulness, speciality, stock, strong flair, strong point, style, sufficiency, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, supply, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, talents, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tempering, the goods, the stuff, timing, trim, virtuosity, ways, ways and means, what it takes, wherewith, wherewithal, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• abject, abominable, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, apologetic, arrant, assenting, atrocious, backscratching, base, beggarly, bootlicking, cheesy, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, contemptible, contrite, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, fawning, flagrant, flattering, footlicking, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, groveling, hangdog, heinous, humble, humble-minded, humble-spirited, humbled, humblehearted, ingratiating, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mealymouthed, mean, measly, meek, meek-minded, meek-spirited, meekhearted, melted, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obedient, obeisant, obnoxious, obsequious, odious, on bended knee, paltry, parasitic, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, petty, poky, poor, poor in spirit, prostrate, rank, repentant, reptilian, resigned, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, sheepish, shoddy, small, sniveling, softened, sponging, squalid, submissive, subservient, supine, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, touched, truckling, unassertive, uncomplaining, underfoot, unmentionable, unresistant, unresisting, vile, wretched

• abjection, abandon, abandonment, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, dissoluteness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, reprobacy, rottenness, turpitude

• abjuration, abandonment, abdication, abeyance, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, cessation, cession, chucking, chucking out, cold storage, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, declination, declining, denial, desistance, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discontinuance, discounting, dismissal, disowning, disownment, dispensation, disposal, disposition, disproof, disregard, dropping out, dumping, exception, exclusion, expatriation, forbearance, forgoing, forswearing, gainsaying, getting rid of, giving up, handing over, ignoring, impugnment, letting go, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nonexercise, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relinquishment, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, resignation, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, riddance, sacrifice, scouting, spurning, surrender, suspension, swearing off, throwing out, turning out, unsaying, waiver, withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding

• abjure, abandon, abdicate, acknowledge defeat, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, brush aside, cease, cede, chuck, chuck out, climb down, come off, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, cross, cry quits, cut out, decline, deny, desert, desist, desist from, despise, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, discontinue, discount, disdain, disgorge, dismiss, disown, dispense with, dispose of, disprove, dispute, disregard, disuse, do without, drop, dump, eat crow, eat humble pie, except, exclude, forgo, forsake, forswear, gainsay, get along without, get rid of, give away, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, ignore, impugn, join issue upon, kiss good-bye, lay down, leave off, let go, make a sacrifice, nol-pros, not accept, not admit, not pursue with, nullify, oppose, palinode, part with, pass by, pass up, push aside, put behind one, quit, quitclaim, rebuff, recall, recant, refuse, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refute, reject, relinquish, render up, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, resign, retract, revoke, sacrifice, scout, shove away, spare, spurn, stop, surrender, swallow, swear off, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, throw up, turn away, turn out, unsay, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield

• ablate, abate, abrade, abrase, absorb, assimilate, atomize, bark, bate, be eaten away, bleed white, break up, burn up, chafe, come apart, consume, consume away, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decline, decompose, decrease, deliquesce, deplete, depreciate, die away, digest, diminish, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dissipate, dissolve, dive, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, drop, drop off, dwindle, eat, eat up, ebb, erase, erode, exhaust, expend, fall, fall away, fall off, fall to pieces, file, finish, finish off, fission, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gnaw, gnaw away, gobble, gobble up, grate, graze, grind, impoverish, ingest, languish, lessen, let up, melt away, molder, plummet, plunge, rasp, raze, rub away, rub off, rub out, run low, sag, scour, scrape, scrub, scuff, shrink, sink, skin, spend, split, squander, subside, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, tail off, tatter, use up, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear ragged, weather

• ablation, abrasion, abrasive, absorption, abstraction, assimilation, atomization, attrition, breakup, buffing, burning up, burnishing, chafe, chafing, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decay, decomposition, decrease, decrement, deduction, degradation, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, detrition, digestion, dilapidation, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissipation, dissolution, drain, dressing, eating up, erasure, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, filing, finishing, fretting, galling, grazing, grinding, impoverishment, incoherence, ingestion, leakage, limation, loss, polishing, purification, rasping, ravages of time, refinement, removal, resolution, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shining, shrinkage, smoothing, spending, squandering, subduction, sublation, subtraction, taking away, use, using, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wear, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, wearing down, weathering

• ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, bathed with light, bespangled, blazing, boiling over, breathless, brightened, burning, candent, candescent, candlelit, comburent, conflagrant, cordial, delirious, drunk, enlightened, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, firelit, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, gaslit, glowing, guttering, hearty, heated, hot, ignescent, ignited, illuminated, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, intense, intoxicated, irradiate, irradiated, keen, kindled, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, live, lively, living, luminous, meteoric, moonlit, on fire, passionate, red-hot, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoldering, spangled, sparking, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, steaming, steamy, studded, sunlit, tinseled, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, zealous

• able, adapted, adequate, adjusted, alert, au fait, brainy, brilliant, capable, checked out, clever, competent, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enigmatic, enterprising, equal to, expert, fit, fitted, fitted for, go-ahead, good, incalculable, incognizable, intelligent, journeyman, keen, mysterious, productive, proficient, proper, puzzling, qualified, sealed, sharp, skilled, skillful, smart, strange, suited, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, uncharted, unclassified, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified, uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown, unperceived, unplumbed, unrevealed, unsuspected, untouched, up to, up to snuff, up-and-coming, virgin, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, wicked, worthy

• ablution, cleaning out, douche, douching, elution, elutriation, enema, flush, flushing, flushing out, irrigation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, mopping, mopping up, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, soaping, sponge, sponging, swabbing, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, wiping up

• ably, adeptly, adequately, adroitly, agilely, aptly, artfully, artistically, brilliantly, capably, cleverly, competently, cunningly, deftly, dexterously, dextrously, effectively, effectually, efficiently, excellently, expertly, featly, handily, ingeniously, masterfully, neatly, nimbly, proficiently, resourcefully, skillfully, spryly, superbly, well, with consummate skill, with finesse, with genius, with skill

• abnegation, abstinence, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, continence, contradiction, control, cool, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dispassion, dissent, evenness, forbearance, frugality, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, holding back, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, neutrality, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prudence, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repudiation, restraint, retention, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, serenity, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, thumbs-down, tranquillity, turndown, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unwillingness, via media, withholding

• abnormal, aberrant, abominable, absurd, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, atrocious, atypical, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, criminal, crotchety, daft, delinquent, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, deviant, deviative, different, disgraceful, disoriented, disproportionate, distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, evil, exceptional, fey, flaky, flighty, formless, freakish, funny, hallucinated, hardly the thing, heteroclite, heteromorphic, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, insane, irrational, irreconcilable, irregular, kinky, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not done, not right, not the thing, nutty, odd, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off-base, off-color, off-key, out of proportion, out-of-line, oxymoronic, paradoxical, peculiar, preternatural, psycho, queer, quirky, reasonless, sacrilegious, scandalous, screwball, screwy, self-contradictory, senseless, shameful, shameless, shapeless, sick, sinful, singular, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, terrible, tetched, touched, twisted, unbalanced, unconventional, uncustomary, undue, unfit, unfitting, unhinged, unlawful, unnatural, unregular, unrepresentative, unrighteous, unsane, unseemly, unsettled, unsound, unsuitable, untypical, unusual, unwonted, wacky, wandering, whimsical, wicked, witless, wrong, wrongful

• abnormality, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, anomaly, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, clouded mind, complaint, complication, conceit, condition, congenital defect, conversation piece, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, criminality, crotchet, crotchetiness, curio, curiosity, daftness, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delinquency, dementedness, dementia, derangement, deviance, deviancy, deviation, differentness, disability, disease, disorder, disorientation, distemper, distortion, distraction, divergence, dottiness, eccentricity, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, erraticism, erraticness, exception, folie, freakiness, freakishness, functional disease, fungus disease, furor, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illegality, illness, improbability, improperness, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indisposition, infectious disease, infelicity, infirmity, infraction, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, irregularity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, maladjustment, malady, malaise, malformation, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mesalliance, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, museum piece, neurological disease, nonconformity, nonesuch, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddity, oddness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peculiarity, pixilation, plant disease, possession, prodigiosity, prodigy, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, rarity, reasonlessness, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickishness, sickness, signs, sinfulness, singularity, strange thing, strangeness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, trick, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, uncommonness, unconformity, uncongeniality, unconventionality, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unrighteousness, unsaneness, unseemliness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unsuitability, unusualness, urogenital disease, violation, virus disease, wasting disease, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, wickedness, witlessness, worm disease, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness

• aboard, afloat, all aboard, aloft, among us, athwart the hawse, athwarthawse, aye, before the mast, here, hereabout, hereabouts, hereat, hereinto, hereto, hereunto, hither, hitherward, hitherwards, in sail, in this place, in this vicinity, just here, on board, on board ship, on deck, on shipboard, on the spot, somewhere about, to this place, topside, with us

• abode, abiding, accommodation, area, bearings, bench mark, billet, cohabitation, commorancy, diggings, digs, district, domicile, dwelling, emplacement, habitancy, habitation, hole, home, house, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, latitude and longitude, lieu, living, locale, locality, location, locus, lodging, nesting, occupancy, occupation, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, quarters, region, residence, residency, residing, site, situation, situs, sojourning, spot, squatting, staying, staying over, stead, stopping, tenancy, whereabout, whereabouts

• abolish, abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to naught, cancel, countermand, counterorder, delete, demolish, deracinate, destroy, disallow, disannul, do away with, eliminate, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, invalidate, liquidate, make void, negate, negative, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, root out, set aside, stamp out, suspend, terminate, undo, uproot, vacate, vitiate, void, waive, wipe out, withdraw, write off

• abolition, abolishment, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, choking, choking off, countermand, counterorder, defeasance, deracination, destruction, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, invalidation, liquidation, negation, nullification, purge, recall, recantation, renege, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, rooting out, setting aside, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suspension, termination, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

• abominable, aberrant, abhorrent, abject, abnormal, accursed, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal, crude, crummy, cursed, damnable, dark, debased, degraded, delinquent, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, deviant, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgraceful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, illegal, improper, in bad taste, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line, outrageous, paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sacrilegious, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpleasant, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful

• abomination, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, allergy, anathema, annoyance, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, atrocity, aversion, bad, bane, befoulment, besmirchment, bete noire, bigotry, blight, bogey, bugaboo, bugbear, cold sweat, contamination, contempt, corruption, creeping flesh, crying evil, damage, defilement, desecration, despite, despitefulness, despoliation, destruction, detestation, detriment, dirtying, disdain, disfavor, disgrace, disgust, dislike, disrelish, distaste, enmity, error, evil, execration, grievance, harm, hate, hatred, havoc, horror, hostility, hurt, ignominy, ill, incubus, infamy, infection, iniquity, injury, knavery, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, mischief, misogyny, mortal horror, nausea, obliquity, odium, outrage, peccancy, peeve, pest, pet peeve, phobia, pity, plague, poison, pollution, profanation, race hatred, racism, reprobacy, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, ritual uncleanness, sacrilege, scandal, scorn, shame, shuddering, sin, soiling, spite, spitefulness, terrible thing, the worst, toxin, trial, venom, vexation, vials of hate, vials of wrath, villainy, violation, woe, wrong, xenophobia

• aboriginal, abecedarian, aborigine, ancestral, antenatal, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, endemic, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, homebred, homegrown, humanoid, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigene, indigenous, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, nascent, natal, native, native-born, original, parturient, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, savage, seminal, ur, vernacular

• aborigine, Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, earliest inhabitant, first comer, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, indigene, local, local yokel, man of old, missing link, native, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, primitive settler, protohuman, troglodyte

• abort, abandon, belay, cancel, cease, close, conclude, cut it out, desist, determine, discontinue, drop it, end, finish, finish up, give over, go amiss, go astray, go wrong, halt, have done with, hold, knock it off, lay off, leave off, miscarry, perorate, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, resolve, scrap, scratch, scrub, stay, stop, terminate, wind up

• abortive, barren, bootless, failed, failing, fruitless, futile, gainless, immature, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, lame, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, nonremunerative, of no effect, otiose, profitless, rewardless, sterile, stickit, stillborn, successless, unavailable, unavailing, unformed, unfortunate, unmatured, unproductive, unprofitable, unremunerative, unrewarding, unripe, unsuccessful, useless, vain

• abound, abound with, be alive with, bristle with, burst with, clutter, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crowded, exuberate, filled, flourish, flow, gush, jam, multiply, overflow, overflow with, pack, packed, pour, prevail, proliferate, pullulate, pullulate with, rain, run over, shower, stream, swarm, swarm with, teem, teem with, thrive, throng, throng with

• about face, about-turn, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, afterthoughts, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backsliding, backup, becoming, better thoughts, betterment, break, change, change of heart, change of mind, change-over, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disenchantment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, do an about-face, face about, fitting, flip, flip-flop, gradual change, growth, improvement, lapse, mature judgment, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, naturalization, overthrow, passage, progress, qualification, radical change, re-creation, re-formation, realignment, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restitution, restoration, restructuring, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, reverting, revival, revivification, revolution, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, second thoughts, shift, slipping back, sudden change, swingaround, switch, switch-over, tergiversating, tergiversation, total change, transformation, transit, transition, turn, turnabout, turnaround, turning into, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, volte-face, worsening

• about ship, back and fill, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, come about, double a point, fetch about, go about, gybe, heave round, jibe, jibe all standing, miss stays, ply, put about, put back, round a point, sheer, shift, slew, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, throw about, turn, turn back, veer, wear, wear ship, wind, yaw

• about, again, aimlessly, all but, all over, all round, almost, along toward, alongside, anent, any which way, anyhow, anywise, approximately, apropos, apropos of, around, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, at close quarters, at hand, at random, back, back and forth, backward, beside, carelessly, casually, circa, circuitously, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close to, close upon, concerning, encircling, everywhere, far and wide, fast by, haphazard, haphazardly, hard, hard by, helter-skelter, here and there, hereabout, hereabouts, in all directions, in connection with, in point of, in re, in reference to, in regard to, in relation to, in relation with, in respect to, in reverse, in spitting distance, in the air, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, involving, just about, more or less, most, much, near, near at hand, near enough to, near upon, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearly, nigh, nigh about, not far, not far from, of, on, on every side, only a step, pertaining to, pertinent to, plus ou moins, practically, prevalent, random, randomly, re, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, roughly, round, round about, some, somewhere about, speaking of, surrounding, thereabout, thereabouts, through, throughout, to and fro, touching, up and down, upon, upwards of, well-nigh, with, with regard to, with respect to, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach

• above all, a fortiori, all the more, chiefly, dominantly, especially, even, ever so, first of all, in chief, in the main, indeed, mainly, more than ever, mostly, never so, no end, particularly, peculiarly, predominantly, primarily, principally, still more, yea

• above water, all clear, all straight, at anchor, clear, free and clear, high and dry, in harbor, in safety, in the clear, on, out of danger, out of debt, past danger, solvent, terra firma, under cover, unindebted, unowing

• above, a cut above, above all, above and beyond, abovestairs, additionally, again, ahead, airward, all included, aloft, aloof, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, ante, as well, ascendant, at bottom, atop, au reste, before, before everything, beside, besides, better, beyond, capping, chiefly, chosen, distinguished, eclipsing, else, eminent, en plus, essentially, exceeding, excellent, excelling, extra, farther, finer, first of all, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, greater, hereinabove, hereinbefore, high, high up, higher, highest, in addition, in ascendancy, in excess of, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds, inter alia, into the bargain, item, likewise, mainly, major, marked, more, moreover, of choice, on, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on the side, on tiptoe, on top of, one up on, outstanding, over, over and above, overhead, past, plus, primarily, rare, rivaling, similarly, skyward, straight up, super, superior, supra, surpassing, then, therewith, tiptoe, to boot, to the zenith, too, too deep for, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, up, upmost, upon, upper, uppermost, upstairs, upward, upwards, yet

• above-board, artless, candid, candidly, direct, forthright, frank, frankly, freely, genuine, guileless, honest, honorable, in the open, ingenuous, open, openly, plainly, publicly, straight, straightforward, straightforwardly, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive

• aboveboard, artless, authentic, before one, bona fide, face to face, fair and square, forthright, foursquare, genuine, good-faith, in broad daylight, in open court, in plain sight, in plain view, in public, in public view, in the marketplace, in the open, ingenuous, on the level, on the square, on the table, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, openly, overtly, plain dealing, publicly, scrupulous, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight, straight-shooting, unsophisticated, up-and-up, veritable

• abrade, abate, ablate, abrase, abstract, atomize, bark, bate, beat, blemish, bloody, bother, bray, break, brecciate, bug, burn, chafe, check, chip, claw, comminute, confuse, contriturate, corrode, crack, craze, crumb, crumble, crush, curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, depreciate, derogate, detract, diminish, disintegrate, disorganize, disparage, distract, disturb, drain, eat away, erase, erode, excoriate, exercise, extract, file, file away, flour, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, gnaw, gnaw away, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, graze, grind, grind to powder, hurt, impair, incise, injure, irk, lacerate, leach, lessen, levigate, maim, make mincemeat of, mash, maul, mill, mutilate, perturb, pestle, pierce, pound, powder, provoke, pulverize, puncture, purify, rasp, raze, reduce, reduce to powder, refine, remove, rend, retrench, rip, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, ruffle, run, rupture, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scour, scrape, scratch, scrub, scrunch, scuff, shard, shorten, shred, skin, slash, slit, smash, sprain, squash, stab, stick, strain, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, tatter, tear, thin, thin out, traumatize, triturate, wear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear ragged, weather, weed, withdraw, wound, wrench

• abrasion, ablation, abrasive, abstraction, atomization, attrition, beating, blemish, break, brecciation, buffing, burn, burnishing, chafe, chafing, check, chip, comminution, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crumbling, crushing, cut, deduction, detrition, disintegration, dressing, erasure, erosion, filing, flash burn, fracture, fragmentation, fray, frazzle, fretting, gall, galling, gash, granulation, granulization, grating, grazing, grinding, hurt, incision, injury, laceration, lesion, levigation, limation, mashing, mortal wound, mutilation, polishing, pounding, powdering, puncture, purification, rasping, refinement, removal, rent, rip, rubbing away, run, rupture, sandblasting, sanding, scald, scorch, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, second-degree burn, shining, shredding, slash, smashing, smoothing, sore, stab, stab wound, subduction, sublation, subtraction, taking away, tear, third-degree burn, trauma, trituration, wear, wearing away, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

• abrasive, ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, aluminum oxide, attrition, attritive, auto polish, buffing, burnish, burnishing, chafe, chafing, colcothar, corundum, crocus, detrition, dressing, emery, emery board, emery paper, erasure, erosion, erosive, file, filing, fretting, galling, garnet, gnawing, grazing, grinding, lawn-roller, limation, nail file, polish, polishes, polishing, pumice, pumice stone, rasp, rasping, roller, rottenstone, rouge, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, sandpaper, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shining, shoe polish, silicon carbide, silver polish, sleeker, slicker, smooth, smoother, smoothing, wax, wear, wearing away

• abreast, abeam, acquainted, along by, alongside, au courant, au fait, beside, by, coextensively, collaterally, contemporary, conversant, equidistantly, in parallel, informed, nondivergently, parallelly, parallelwise, red-hot, side-by-side, up, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, versed

• abridge, abbreviate, abstract, bereave, bleed, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, boil down, bowdlerize, brief, cancel, capsule, capsulize, censor, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, delete, depreciate, depress, deprive, deprive of, digest, diminish, disentitle, divest, dock, downgrade, drain, ease one of, edit, edit out, elide, epitomize, erase, expunge, expurgate, foreshorten, kill, lessen, lighten one of, limit, lower, milk, mine, minify, minimize, mow, narrow, nip, nutshell, omit, outline, pare, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rescind, restrict, retrench, roll back, rub out, scale down, shave, shear, shorten, simplify, sketch, sketch out, slash, snub, step down, strike, strike off, strike out, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take away from, take from, take in, tap, telescope, trim, truncate, tune down, void

• abridged, Spartan, abbreviated, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

• abridgment, abatement, abbreviation, abstract, alleviation, aphorism, apocope, attenuation, bereavement, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, breviary, brief, cancellation, capsule, censoring, censorship, compendium, compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, curtailment, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deletion, depreciation, depression, deprivation, deprivement, digest, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, divestment, dying, dying off, editing, elision, ellipsis, epigram, epitome, erasure, expurgation, extenuation, fade-out, foreshortening, languishment, lessening, letup, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, omission, outline, precis, privation, recap, recapitulation, reduction, relaxation, relieving, retrenchment, sagging, scaling down, shortening, simplicity, sketch, striking, subtraction, sum, summary, summation, summing-up, syllabus, syncope, synopsis, telescoping, truncation, weakening

• abroad, abashed, aberrant, adrift, afield, alfresco, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, at large, at sea, away, away from home, awry, beside the mark, bewildered, beyond seas, bothered, broadly, clear, clueless, confused, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distantly and broadly, distorted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, embarrassed, en plein air, errant, erring, erroneous, everywhere, extensively, fallacious, false, far afield, far and near, far and wide, faultful, faulty, flawed, guessing, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, in foreign parts, in the open, infinitely, lost, mazed, nonresident, not in residence, not right, not true, off, off the track, on all sides, on every side, on leave, on sabbatical leave, on the road, on tour, out, out of doors, outdoors, outside, oversea, overseas, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, publicly, put-out, right and left, self-contradictory, straying, turned around, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, untrue, upset, vastly, wide, widely, without a clue, wrong

• abrogate, abate, abolish, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to naught, cancel, countermand, counterorder, disannul, discharge, dissolve, do away with, extinguish, invalidate, make void, negate, negative, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, ruin, set aside, suspend, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, waive, withdraw, wreck, write off

• abrogation, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, absolute contradiction, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, countermand, counterorder, crossing, defeasance, denial, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, forswearing, gainsaying, impugnment, invalidation, nullification, recall, recantation, refutation, renege, renunciation, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retractation, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, setting aside, suspension, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

• abrupt, aggressive, arduous, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bold, brash, breakneck, breathless, brief, brisk, brusque, casual, cavalier, churlish, crisp, crusty, curt, discourteous, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, electrifying, faired, gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong, hurried, impetuous, impolite, impulsive, informal, nerve-shattering, obtuse, panting, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, pointless, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rapid, rash, ready, rough, rounded, rude, rushing, severe, sharp, sheer, shocking, short, sideling, smoothed, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippy, speedy, startling, steep, stickle, sudden, surly, surprising, swift, truculent, unannounced, unanticipated, unceremonious, uncivil, unedged, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unplanned, unpointed, unpredicted, unsharp, unsharpened, vertical

• abruptly, a corps perdu, bang, bearishly, bluffly, bluntly, boorishly, brashly, brusquely, cavalierly, churlishly, crustily, curtly, dash, forthwith, gruffly, harshly, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heels over head, impetuously, impulsively, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, nastily, of a sudden, on short notice, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, rashly, sharp, sharply, short, shortly, slap, slap-bang, smack, snippily, startlingly, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, unawares, unexpectedly, without notice, without warning

• abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, aposteme, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bed sore, blain, bleb, bleeding, blennorhea, blister, blotch, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, cachexia, cachexy, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, chill, chills, cold sore, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, eschar, fainting, fatigue, felon, fester, festering, fever, fever blister, fibrillation, fistula, flux, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, growth, gumboil, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, kibe, labored breathing, lesion, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, papula, papule, paralysis, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pruritus, pustule, rash, rheum, rising, scab, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, soft chancre, sore, spasm, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tabes, tachycardia, trauma, tubercle, tumor, ulcer, ulceration, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wale, wasting, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

• abscond, abandon, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, bow out, break, bunk, clear out, cut and run, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, elope, evacuate, flee, fly, fugitate, go, go AWOL, jump, jump bail, leave, levant, make off, quit, remove, retire, retreat, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, scape, show the heels, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable, take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing, turn tail, vacate, vanish, withdraw

• absconded, absent, away, deleted, departed, disappeared, gone, lacking, missing, no longer present, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, omitted, out of sight, subtracted, taken away, vanished, wanting

• absence, AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, beggary, cut, day off, dearth, default, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, departure, deprivation, destitution, disappearance, drought, emptiness, escape, excused absence, exigency, famine, fleeing, furlough, holiday, hooky, imperfection, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompleteness, insufficiency, lack, leave, leave of absence, leaving, miss, necessity, need, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nonappearance, nonattendance, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullity, omission, paucity, privation, running away, sabbatical leave, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sick leave, starvation, truancy, truantism, unactuality, unexcused absence, unreality, vacancy, vacation, vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage

• absent, absconded, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, away, bemused, castle-building, daydreaming, daydreamy, deficient, deleted, departed, disappeared, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, gone, half-awake, heedless, in a reverie, in the clouds, keep away from, lacking, lost, lost in thought, meditative, missing, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, no longer present, nodding, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, oblivious, off, omitted, out, out of sight, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, somewhere else, stargazing, subtracted, taken away, taken up, transported, unconscious, vanished, wanting, withdraw from, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

• absent-minded, Lethean, absent, absorbed, abstracted, amnestic, bemused, blocked, castle-building, converted, daydreaming, daydreamy, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, forgetting, half-awake, heedless, in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, inadvertent, inattentive, inclined to forget, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, off, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, repressed, somewhere else, stargazing, suppressed, taken up, transported, unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

• absentmindedness, Lethe, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, carelessness, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decay of memory, depth of thought, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dream, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, flightiness, flippancy, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, frivolousness, giddiness, hazy recollection, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, levity, lightmindedness, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, negligence, nepenthe, nirvana, nonobservance, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, regardlessness, reverie, shallowness, short memory, stargazing, study, superficiality, thoughtlessness, trance, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unwariness, unwatchfulness, waters of oblivion, woolgathering

• absolute zero, algidity, bitterness, bleakness, boiling point, briskness, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, coolth, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, decrease in temperature, dew point, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, gelidity, iciness, inclemency, intense cold, keenness, low temperature, melting point, nip, nippiness, rawness, recalescence point, rigor, severity, sharp air, sharpness, temperature, zero

• absolute, OK, absolutist, absolutistic, abstract, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no exception, admitting no question, affirmative, affirmatory, all right, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, all-powerful, almighty, alone, apodictic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, assertative, assertional, assertive, assuring, attestative, attestive, autarchic, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, autonomous, azygous, bare, based on, beyond all praise, binding, born, bossy, bound, boundless, broad-based, bureaucratic, categorical, celibate, certain, circumstantial, civic, civil, clarified, classical, clean, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, complete, comprehensive, compulsory, conclusive, concrete, confirmable, congenital, consequential, considerable, constitutional, consummate, controlling, convictional, convincing, correct, crass, cumulative, damning, de facto, dead right, decided, decisive, declarative, declaratory, decretory, deep-dyed, defectless, defined, definite, definitive, democratic, demonstrable, demonstratable, despotic, detailed, determinate, determinative, dictated, dictatorial, different, distilled, distinct, distinguished, documentary, documented, dominant, domineering, downright, duly constituted, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, eminent, emphatic, empowered, entailed, entire, esoteric, especial, eternal, evidential, evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exceptional, exhaustive, explicit, express, extraordinary, eye-witness, factual, fascist, faultless, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, final, finished, first and last, firsthand, fixed, flagrant, flat, flat-out, flawless, for real, founded on, free, full, genuine, glaring, global, governing, governmental, great, grinding, gross, grounded on, gubernatorial, hard, hard-and-fast, haste, hearsay, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heteronomous, high-handed, historical, honest-to-God, ideal, illimitable, immaculate, impair, impeccable, imperative, imperial, imperious, implicit, important, imposed, impressive, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indefectible, indefective, independent, indicative, indisputable, individual, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, infallible, infinite, influential, inner, intensive, intimate, intolerable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irreproachable, irresistible, irrevocable, just, just right, leading, letter-perfect, limitless, lone, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mandated, mandatory, masterful, material, matriarchal, matriarchic, meticulous, mighty, minute, momentous, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, must, naked, neat, necessary, no strings, noteworthy, nuncupative, obligatory, odd, official, okay, oligarchal, oligarchic, omnibus, omnipotent, omnipresent, one and only, only, only-begotten, open, oppressive, out-and-out, outright, overbearing, overruling, overwhelming, parliamentarian, parliamentary, particular, patriarchal, patriarchic, peerless, peremptory, perfect, perfectly sure, personal, persuasive, pervasive, plain, plenary, plenipotentiary, plumb, pluralistic, political, positive, potent, powerful, precious, precise, predestined, predetermined, predicational, predicative, preeminent, prescript, prescriptive, prestigious, presumptive, private, probative, profound, prominent, pronounced, proper, provable, puissant, pure, purified, radical, rank, ranking, real, rectified, regular, reliable, repressive, republican, required, respective, right, round, ruling, satisfactory, satisfying, self-evident, self-governing, senior, several, severe, shattering, sheer, shocking, significant, simple, singular, sinless, sole, solipsistic, sovereign, special, specific, spotless, stainless, stark, stark-staring, straight, straight-out, straight-up-and-down, strict, substantial, suggestive, superior, superlative, suppressive, supreme, sure, sure-enough, surpassing, sweeping, symptomatic, taintless, telling, testable, the veriest, theocratic, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, totalitarian, transcendent, transcendental, transparent, true, tyrannical, tyrannous, ubiquitous, ultimate, unadulterated, unalloyed, unambiguous, unanswerable, unbearable, unblemished, unblended, unbound, unbounded, uncircumscribed, uncombined, uncompounded, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, unconfutable, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontaminated, uncorrupted, undeniable, undiluted, undoubting, unequivocal, unfaultable, unflawed, unfortified, unhampered, unhesitating, unimpeachable, unique, universal, univocal, unleavened, unlimited, unmeasured, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unpaired, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioning, unrefutable, unrelieved, unrepeated, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsophisticated, unspoiled, unspotted, untainted, untinged, unwaivable, utter, valid, verifiable, veritable, weighty, whole, wholesale, wide-open, without appeal, without exception, without reserve, without strings

• absolutely, OK, Roger, a outrance, actually, affirmatively, all out, all right, alright, alrighty, altogether, amen, and no mistake, as you say, assertively, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, aye, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, by all means, categorically, certainly, clean, clearly, completely, da, de facto, dead, decidedly, decisively, declaratively, definitely, directly, distinctly, doubtless, doubtlessly, downright, emphatically, entirely, essentially, even, exactly, expressly, extremely, faithfully, faultlessly, fine, flat out, flawlessly, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for sure, forsooth, fully, fundamentally, genuinely, good, good enough, hear, ideally, immaculately, immeasurably, impeccably, in actuality, in all respects, in effect, in every respect, in fact, in reality, in the extreme, in truth, incalculably, indeed, indeedy, indefinitely, indubitably, infallibly, infinitely, ipsissimis verbis, irretrievably, irrevocably, ja, just, just right, just so, literally, literatim, mais oui, manifestly, most, most assuredly, most certainly, naturally, naturellement, nothing else but, obviously, of course, okay, oui, perfectly, plain, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, predicatively, purely, quite, radically, rather, really, right, righto, rigidly, rigorously, sheer, spotlessly, square, squarely, stark, straight, strictly, sure, sure thing, surely, thoroughly, to a certainty, to be sure, to the letter, totally, truly, unconditionally, under oath, undeviatingly, unequivocally, unerringly, unmistakably, unquestionably, unrelievedly, unreservedly, utterly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veritably, very well, well and good, wholly, why yes, with a vengeance, with emphasis, word by word, word for word, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• absolution, acquittal, acquittance, amnesty, clearance, clearing, compurgation, condonation, destigmatization, destigmatizing, discharge, disculpation, dismissal, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, forgiveness, grace, immunity, indemnity, pardon, purgation, purging, quietus, quittance, redemption, release, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, shrift, sparing, verdict of acquittal, vindication

• absolutism, Caesarism, Stalinism, absolute monarchy, absolute power, autarchy, authoritarianism, authority, autocracy, benevolent despotism, bond service, bondage, captivity, competence, competency, constituted authority, control, czarism, debt slavery, delegated authority, deprivation of freedom, despotism, dictatorship, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, divine right, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, faculty, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, indirect authority, inherent authority, jus divinum, kaiserism, lawful authority, legal authority, legitimacy, monarchy, one-man rule, one-party rule, paternalism, peonage, power, prerogative, regality, restraint, right, rightful authority, royal prerogative, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, the say, the say-so, thrall, thralldom, totalitarianism, tyranny, vassalage, vested authority, vicarious authority, villenage

• absolve, acquit, administer absolution, administer extreme unction, amnesty, cancel, clear, confess, declare a moratorium, decontaminate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense, dispense from, dispense with, except, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, forgive, free, give absolution, give dispensation from, grant amnesty to, grant forgiveness, grant immunity, grant remission, hear confession, justify, let go, let off, make confession, nonpros, nullify, obliterate, pardon, purge, quash the charge, receive absolution, release, relieve, remise, remit, save the necessity, set free, shrive, spare, vindicate, whitewash, wipe out, withdraw the charge, write off

• absorb, ablate, absorb the attention, adsorb, appreciate, apprehend, appropriate, arrest, assimilate, be with one, bleed white, blot, blot up, burn up, buy up, catch, catch on, catch up in, charm, chemisorb, chemosorb, come uppermost, comprehend, conceive, concern, consume, corner, deplete, dig, digest, drain, drain of resources, draw in, drink, drink in, drink up, eat, eat up, embarrass, embody, enchant, engage, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enmesh, entangle, enthrall, erode, exercise, exhaust, expend, fascinate, fathom, fill the mind, filter in, finish, finish off, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, gobble, gobble up, grab, grasp, grip, have, have it taped, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hypnotize, imbibe, imbue, immerse, implicate, impoverish, impregnate, incorporate, infiltrate, infuse, ingest, interest, involve, involve the interest, ken, know, learn, master, mesmerize, metabolize, monopolize, monopolize the thoughts, obsess, obsess the mind, occupy, occupy the attention, occupy the mind, osmose, percolate in, permeate, predigest, preoccupy, read, realize, savvy, seep in, seize, seize the meaning, seize the mind, sense, sew up, slurp up, soak in, soak up, sorb, spellbind, spend, sponge, squander, suck dry, suck into, swallow, swallow up, swill up, take, take in, take up, tangle, understand, use up, waste away, wear away

• absorbed, absent, absentminded, absorbed in, abstracted, bemused, buried, buried in, buried in thought, castle-building, caught up in, concentrating, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, devoted, devoted to, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in, engrossed in thought, enmeshed in, entangled in, far-gone, faraway, half-awake, immersed, immersed in, immersed in thought, implicated in, in a reverie, in the clouds, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, involved in, lost, lost in, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, obsessed, occupied, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, single-minded, somewhere else, stargazing, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, tied up in, totally absorbed, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up, wrapped up in

• absorbent, absorbency, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, chemisorption, chemosorption, digestion, endosmosis, engrossment, exosmosis, infiltration, osmosis, percolation, seepage, sorption, sponge, sponging

• absorbing, acute, arresting, attractive, captivating, consuming, deep, deep-felt, deepgoing, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, heartfelt, holding, homefelt, hypnotic, indelible, keen, magnetic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, monopolizing, obsessing, obsessive, penetrating, pervading, piercing, poignant, profound, riveting, sharp, spellbinding

• absorption, Walter Mitty, ablation, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorbed attention, absorbency, absorbent, abstractedness, abstraction, adsorbent, adsorption, application, assimilation, attrition, bemusement, bile, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, brown study, burning up, castle-building, chemisorption, chemosorption, close study, concentration, consumption, contemplation, contemplativeness, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, deep study, deep thought, depletion, depth of thought, digestion, digestive system, drain, dream, dreaming, eating up, embarrassment, endosmosis, engagement, engrossment, enmeshment, entanglement, erosion, exhaustion, exosmosis, expending, expenditure, fantasy, fantasying, finishing, fit of abstraction, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, imbibing, immersion, implication, impoverishment, inclusion, infiltration, ingestion, intentness, intestinal juice, involution, involvement, liver, meditation, melancholy, monomania, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, obsession, osmosis, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, pensiveness, percolation, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, predigestion, preoccupation, profound thought, rapt attention, reflectiveness, relation, reverie, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, secondary digestion, seepage, single-mindedness, soaking-up, sorption, speculativeness, spending, sponge, sponging, squandering, stargazing, studiousness, study, submersion, taking-in, thoughtfulness, trance, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down, wistfulness, woolgathering

• absquatulate, abscond, beat a retreat, bolt, clear out, cut and run, decamp, depart, desert, dog it, elope, flee, fly, fugitate, go AWOL, jump, jump bail, lam, levant, make off, powder, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, show the heels, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable, split, take French leave, take a powder, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, turn tail

• abstain, abnegate, abstain from, avoid, constrain, cop out, curb, decline, dispense with, do without, duck the issue, eschew, evade, evade the issue, forbear, forgo, hold, hold aloof from, hold back, hold off, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in hand, let alone, let go by, never touch, not touch, not use, pass up, refrain, refrain from, refuse, reject, reserve, save, shun, sit it out, spare, spurn, stand aloof from, stand neuter, straddle, trim, waive, withhold

• abstainer, Albigensian, Apostolici, Catharist, Encratite, Franciscan, Pythagorean, Pythagorist, Rechabite, Sabbatarian, Shaker, Trappist, Waldensian, abstinent, anchorite, ascetic, banian, bhikshu, dervish, fakir, flagellant, fruitarian, gymnosophist, hermit, hydropot, mendicant, nephalist, puritan, sannyasi, teetotaler, teetotalist, vegetarian, water-drinker, yogi, yogin

• abstemious, Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste, continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, self-abnegating, self-denying, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, spar, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, temperate, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered, watery

• abstention, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstinence, anythingarianism, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, continence, cop-out, desuetude, disuse, eschewal, evasion, fast, fence-sitting, fish day, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, impartiality, independence, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, nephalism, neutralism, neutrality, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonemployment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nonprevalence, nonuse, nothingarianism, obsolescence, obsoleteness, obsoletion, obsoletism, pensioning off, plain living, refraining, refrainment, retirement, sexual abstinence, simple diet, spare diet, strict neutrality, superannuation, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, unprevalence, vegetarianism

• abstinence, Albigensianism, Catharism, Encratism, Franciscanism, Friday, Lenten fare, Platonic love, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Sabbatarianism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abnegation, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence from food, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, avoidance, banyan day, calm, calmness, celibacy, chastity, conservatism, constraint, continence, continency, control, cool, desuetude, dispassion, disuse, eremitism, eschewal, evenness, fast, fasting, fish day, flagellation, fruitarianism, gentleness, golden mean, gymnosophy, happy medium, impartiality, intactness, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, maceration, maidenhead, maidenhood, meden agan, mendicantism, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, nephalism, neutrality, nonemployment, nonprevalence, nonuse, nonviolence, nothing in excess, obsolescence, obsoleteness, obsoletion, obsoletism, pacifism, pensioning off, plain living, prudence, punishment of Tantalus, puritanism, refraining, refrainment, renunciation, repose, restraint, restriction of intake, retirement, rigor, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-mortification, self-restraint, serenity, sexual abstinence, simple diet, sobriety, spare diet, stability, starvation, steadiness, superannuation, teetotalism, temperance, temperateness, the pledge, total abstinence, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unprevalence, vegetarianism, via media, virginity, voluntary poverty

• abstract, abate, abbreviate, abbreviation, abbreviature, abrade, abrege, abridge, abridgment, abstract idea, abstraction, abstruse, academic, altarpiece, and, annex, apocope, appropriate, arcane, armchair, bag, bate, bland, block print, bob, boil down, boost, borrow, breviary, brief, broad, capsule, capsulize, cast off, cast out, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip, collage, collective, color print, colorless, compend, compress, compression, conceptual, condensation, condense, condensed version, conjectural, conspectus, contract, cop, copy, crib, crop, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut out, cut short, cyclorama, daub, decrease, deduct, deep, defraud, deport, depreciate, derogate, detached, detract, digest, diminish, diptych, disconnect, disengage, disinterested, disparage, dispassionate, dispose of, dissociate, divide, dock, draft, drain, eat away, eject, elide, eliminate, elision, ellipsis, embezzle, engraving, epitome, epitomize, eradicate, erode, esoteric, essence, exile, expatriate, expel, extort, extract, featureless, filch, file away, foreshorten, foreshortening, fresco, general, generalized, generic, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, head, hidden, hook, hypothetic, hypothetical, icon, ideal, ideational, illumination, illustration, image, impair, impersonal, impractical, indefinite, indeterminate, intellectual, leach, lessen, lift, likeness, liquidate, make off with, metaphysical, miniature, montage, moot, mosaic, mow, mural, nebulous, neutral, nip, nonspecific, notional, occult, outlaw, outline, overview, palm, pandect, panorama, part, photograph, pick out, picture, pilfer, pinch, poach, poker-faced, poll, pollard, postulatory, precis, print, profound, prune, purge, purify, purloin, reap, recap, recapitulate, recapitulation, recondite, reduce, reduction, refine, remove, representation, reproduction, resume, retrench, retrenchment, review, root out, root up, rub away, rubric, run away with, rustle, scrounge, secret, separate, shave, shear, shoplift, shorten, shortened version, shortening, skeleton, sketch, snare, snatch, snitch, snub, speculative, stained glass window, steal, stencil, still life, strike off, strike out, stunt, subduct, subtract, sum up, summarize, summary, summation, survey, swindle, swipe, syllabus, symbolic, syncope, synopsis, synopsize, tableau, take, take away, take from, take in, tapestry, telescope, telescoping, theoretical, thieve, thin, thin out, throw over, throw overboard, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, transcendent, transcendental, trim, triptych, truncate, truncation, unapplied, uncharacterized, uncouple, undemonstrable, undifferentiated, unpractical, unspecified, utopian, vague, visionary, walk off with, wall painting, wear away, weed, weed out, wide, withdraw

• abstracted, abbreviated, abridged, absent, absentminded, absorbed, bemused, bobbed, buried in thought, capsule, capsulized, castle-building, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, daydreaming, daydreamy, digested, distrait, docked, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elided, elliptic, elsewhere, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, faraway, half-awake, heedless, immersed in thought, in a reverie, in the clouds, inattentive, intent, introspective, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, mowed, mown, museful, musing, napping, nipped, nodding, oblivious, occupied, pensive, pipe-dreaming, pollard, polled, preoccupied, pruned, rapt, reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, somewhere else, stargazing, taken up, transported, trimmed, unconscious, unmindful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

• abstraction, Walter Mitty, ablation, abrasion, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstract, abstract idea, abstractedness, abulia, alienation, altarpiece, analysis, annexation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, appropriation, bemusement, block print, boosting, bromide, brown study, castle-building, catatonic stupor, cliche, close study, collage, color print, commonplace, compulsion, concentration, contemplativeness, conversion, conveyance, copy, cyclorama, daub, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, deduction, deep thought, dejection, depression, depth of thought, detachment, diptych, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, doctrinairism, doctrinality, doctrinarity, dream, dreaming, elation, embezzlement, emotionalism, engraving, engrossment, erosion, euphoria, explanation, fantasy, fantasying, filching, fit of abstraction, folie du doute, fraud, fresco, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, graft, hackneyed expression, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, icon, illumination, illustration, image, incoherence, indifference, insensibility, isolation, lethargy, liberation, lieu commun, lifting, likeness, locus communis, luxation, mania, melancholia, melancholy, mental distress, mere theory, miniature, montage, mooning, moonraking, mosaic, mural, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, obsession, panorama, parting, partition, pathological indecisiveness, pensiveness, photograph, picture, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, platitude, poaching, preoccupation, print, profound thought, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, purification, refinement, reflectiveness, removal, representation, reproduction, reverie, scrounging, segmentation, separation, separatism, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, speculation, speculativeness, stained glass window, stargazing, stealage, stealing, stencil, still life, study, stupor, subdivision, subduction, sublation, subtraction, sweeping statement, swindle, swiping, tableau, taking away, tapestry, theft, theoretic, theoretical basis, theoretics, theoria, theoric, theorization, theory, thievery, thieving, thoughtfulness, tic, tired cliche, trance, triptych, truism, twitching, unresponsiveness, wall painting, wistfulness, withdrawal, woolgathering, zoning

• abstruse, Herculean, abstract, arcane, arduous, beclouded, blind, brutal, buried, civilized, close, clouded, complex, complicated, concealed, covered, covert, critical, cultivated, cultured, deep, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, eclipsed, educated, encyclopedic, erudite, esoteric, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hermetic, hid, hidden, hypothetical, ideal, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, intricate, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, latent, learned, lettered, literate, mean, mysterious, no picnic, not easy, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, operose, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, recondite, rigorous, rough, rugged, scholarly, scholastic, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strenuous, studious, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, transcendental, tricky, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, unknown, uphill, wicked, wise, wrapped in clouds

• absurd, Pickwickian, a bit thick, a bit thin, abnormal, amusing, anomalous, asinine, balmy, barred, beyond belief, bizarre, childish, closed-out, cockamamie, comic, contrary to reason, crazy, curious, daft, disproportionate, doubtable, doubtful, droll, dubious, dubitable, eccentric, empty, excluded, extravagant, fantastic, farcical, fatuitous, fatuous, foolish, freaked out, freaky, funny, futile, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe, harebrained, high-flown, hilarious, hollow, hopeless, humorous, idiotic, idle, illogical, imbecile, imbecilic, implausible, impossible, inane, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconceivable, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, incredible, insane, irrational, irreconcilable, kooky, laughable, logically impossible, loony, ludicrous, mad, meaningless, monstrous, moronic, nonsensical, not deserving belief, not possible, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, open to doubt, open to suspicion, out, out of proportion, outlandish, outrageous, outre, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passing belief, passing strange, peculiar, poppycockish, potty, preposterous, priceless, problematic, prohibited, quaint, queer, questionable, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rubbishy, ruled-out, screaming, self-contradictory, senseless, silly, simple, singular, skimble-skamble, staggering belief, strange, stupid, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, trashy, twaddling, twaddly, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unreasonable, unsound, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, vain, wacky, weird, whimsical, wild, witty, wondrous strange

• absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness, daftness, deformity, dottiness, double-talk, drivel, drollery, drollness, drool, dumb trick, eccentricity, emptiness, error, fallacy, fantasticality, fantasticalness, fatuity, fecklessness, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, folly, foolishness, freakishness, fruitlessness, fudge, funniness, fustian, futility, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hilarity, hocus-pocus, hollowness, hopelessness, humbug, humorousness, illogicality, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, impotence, imprudence, inanity, inconceivability, incongruity, indiscretion, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, insanity, irrationality, jabber, jargon, laughability, ludicrousness, malformation, meaninglessness, monstrosity, monstrousness, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, no chance, nonsense, nonsensicality, nugacity, nuttiness, oddity, otiosity, outlandishness, outrageousness, oxymoron, pack of nonsense, palaver, paradox, peculiarity, pointlessness, prate, prattle, preposterousness, pricelessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, quaintness, queerness, quizzicalness, rant, rat race, richness, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, self-contradiction, senselessness, silliness, singularity, skimble-skamble, sottise, strangeness, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, stupid thing, stupidity, teratism, the absurd, the funny side, the impossible, trash, triviality, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, unimaginability, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unreasonableness, unthinkability, unwise step, valuelessness, vanity, vaporing, vicious circle, waffling, weirdness, what cannot be, what cannot happen, whimsicalness, wildness, witlessness, wittiness, worthlessness

• abulia, abstraction, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, arteriosclerotic psychosis, catatonic stupor, certifiability, compulsion, cowardice, dejection, dementia paralytica, depression, detachment, dipsomania, drug addiction, elation, emotionalism, euphoria, faintheartedness, faintness, fear, feeblemindedness, feebleness, folie du doute, frailty, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, infirmity, insensibility, lethargy, mania, melancholia, mental distress, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, neurosis, obsession, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, pathological drunkenness, pathological indecisiveness, pliability, preoccupation, presenile dementia, prison psychosis, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, psychopathia, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senility, sexual pathology, situational psychosis, spinelessness, stupor, syphilitic paresis, tic, toxic psychosis, twitching, unresponsiveness, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakness, withdrawal

• abundance, accumulation, acres, adequacy, affluence, amassment, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, backlog, bags, barrels, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, budget, bumper crop, bushel, cloud of words, collection, commissariat, commissary, competence, copiousness, cornucopia, countlessness, cumulation, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dump, ease, easy street, effusion, effusiveness, enough, excess, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, heap, hoard, infinitude, innumerability, inventory, landslide, larder, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, load, logorrhea, lots, lushness, luxuriance, macrology, manyness, mass, material, materials, materiel, maximum, more than enough, mountain, much, multifariousness, multifoldness, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinousness, munitions, myriad, myriads, nimiety, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overflow, oversupply, palilogy, peck, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, pregnancy, prevalence, procreativeness, prodigality, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prosperousness, provisionment, provisions, quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, rations, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repertoire, repertory, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rick, rifeness, riot, riotousness, satiety, scads, sea, shower, spate, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stream, substantiality, substantialness, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supplies, supply on hand, surplus, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teeming womb, teemingness, thriving, tirade, tons, treasure, treasury, volume, wealth, well-being, world, worlds

• abundant, abounding, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, common, copious, countless, crammed, creative, crowded, diffuse, diffusive, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, full of, galore, generous, gushing, gushy, in good supply, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

• abuse, abuse of office, addiction, afflict, aggrieve, assail, assailing, assault, atrocity, attack, bark at, batter, befoul, befoulment, belittle, berate, berating, betongue, betray, betrayal, bewitch, billingsgate, bitter words, blacken, blackening, blackguard, blaspheme, bleed, bleed white, blight, bruise, buffet, call names, calumniate, calumniation, calumny, catachresis, censure, condemn, contumely, conversion, convert, corrupt, corrupt administration, corruption, criminal assault, crucify, curse, cursing, cuss out, damage, damn, debase, debasement, debauch, debauchment, deceive, decry, defalcate, defalcation, defamation, defame, defile, defilement, defloration, deflower, deflowering, dependence, deprave, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, desecrate, desecration, despoil, despoilment, destroy, detract from, diatribe, disadvantage, discount, disparage, dispraise, disserve, distress, diversion, divert, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, drain, embezzle, embezzlement, envenom, epithet, epithetize, execrate, execration, exploit, fault, force, foul, fouling, fulminate against, get into trouble, harass, hard words, harm, hex, hurt, ill use, ill-treat, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, impair, impose, impose upon, imprecation, infect, injure, injury, insult, invective, jaw, jawing, jeremiad, jinx, knock about, lambaste, lead astray, libel, load with reproaches, make use of, maladminister, maladministration, malediction, malfeasance, malign, maligning, malpractice, maltreat, maltreatment, malversation, manhandle, manipulate, mar, masturbation, maul, menace, mess up, milk, minimize, misapplication, misapply, misappropriate, misappropriation, misconduct, misemploy, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandle, mishandling, mislead, mismanage, mismanagement, mistreat, mistreatment, misusage, misuse, molest, molestation, mud, objurgate, objurgation, obloquy, onslaught, oppress, opprobrium, outrage, peculate, peculation, persecute, perversion, pervert, philippic, pilfer, pilfering, play havoc with, play hob with, play on, poison, pollute, pollution, poor stewardship, prejudice, presume upon, priapism, profanation, profane, profanity, prostitute, prostitution, rag, rail at, railing, rape, rate, rating, ravage, rave against, ravish, ravishment, rebuke, reproach, revile, revilement, reviling, rough, rough up, ruin, savage, scathe, scold, scolding, screed, scurrility, seduce, seducement, seduction, self-abuse, sexual assault, slander, soil, spoil, stroke, suck dry, sully, swear, swear at, swearing, taint, take advantage of, threaten, thunder against, tirade, tongue-lash, tongue-lashing, torment, torture, traduce, upbraid, upbraiding, use, use ill, vilification, vilify, violate, violation, violence, vituperate, vituperation, work on, work upon, wound, wreak havoc on, write off, wrong, yell at, yelp at

• abusive, Rabelaisian, atrocious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, brutal, bulldozing, bullying, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, corrupt, crooked, cruel, cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, destructive, detractory, dirty, dishonest, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrating, execrative, execratory, fear-inspiring, filthy, foreboding, foul, fulminatory, harmful, hectoring, humiliating, hurtful, imminent, imprecatory, improper, incorrect, injurious, insolent, insulting, intimidating, invective, inveighing, judgmental, left-handed, libelous, lowering, maledictory, maligning, menacing, minacious, minatory, minimizing, misapplied, objurgatory, obscene, odious, offending, offensive, ominous, opprobrious, outrageous, pejorative, perverted, priggish, profane, raw, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald, ridiculing, risque, rude, scandalous, scatologic, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smutty, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful, truculent, unspeakable, venal, vile, vilifying, vituperative, vulgar, wrong

• abut, abut on, adjoin, appose, be based on, be contiguous, be in contact, bear on, bestraddle, bestride, border, border on, bring near, butt, communicate, conjoin, connect, join, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lean on, lie by, lie on, line, march, neighbor, perch, put with, rely on, repose on, rest on, ride, sit on, stand by, stand on, straddle, stride, touch, verge, verge upon

• abysmal, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abyssal, appalling, astronomic, awful, bottomless, cavernous, colossal, deep as hell, dreadful, elephantine, enormous, epic, fathomless, gaping, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, illimitable, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, plumbless, plunging, prodigious, profound, soundless, stupendous, terrible, titanic, towering, tremendous, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, vast, without bottom, yawning

• abyss, Bassalia, Gehenna, Sheol, Tophet, abysm, abyssal zone, arroyo, bathyal zone, benthos, bottom waters, bottomless depths, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, deepness, defile, dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, ground, gulch, gulf, gully, hades, hole, hollow, incision, inferno, inner space, joint, kloof, leak, mine, moat, netherworld, notch, nullah, ocean bottom, ocean depths, ocean floor, opening, pass, passage, pelagic zone, perdition, pit, profoundness, profundity, quarry, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft, slit, slot, split, the deep, the deep sea, the deeps, the depths, trench, underworld, valley, void, wadi, well, workings, yawning abyss

• AC, DC, absorption current, active current, alternating current, conduction current, convection current, cycle, delta current, dielectric displacement current, direct current, displacement current, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, emission current, exciting current, free alternating current, galvanic current, high-frequency current, idle current, induced current, induction current, ionization current, juice, low-frequency current, magnetizing current, multiphase current, pulsating direct current, reactive current, rotary current, single-phase alternating current, stray current, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, three-phase alternating current, voltaic current, watt current

• academia, academe, alma mater, college, college of engineering, community college, degree-granting institution, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal, normal school, postgraduate school, school of communications, school of education, two-year college, university, university college, varsity

• academic, abstract, armchair, book-learned, bookish, booky, chimerical, classroom, closet, collegiate, conjectural, cross-disciplinary, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, erudite, extramural, graduate, graduate-professional, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, idealistic, imaginary, impractical, interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, ivory-tower, learned, lettered, mandarin, moot, notional, owlish, pedagogic, pedagogical, pedantic, postgraduate, postulatory, preceptorial, preschool, professional, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, school, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, speculative, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, theoretical, tutorial, university, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary

• academician, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, genius, giant of learning, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia

• academy, Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, Schule, ecole, educational institution, escuela, grammar school, high, high school, institute, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, middle school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, scholastic institution, school, secondary school, seminary, senior high, senior high school, teaching institution

• accede, OK, abide by, accede to, accept, acclaim, accord to, acquiesce, acquiesce in, agree, agree to, agree with, allow, applaud, approve, approve of, assent, attain to, be agreeable, be instated, be willing, buy, cheer, comply, concur, condescend, connive at, consent, consent to silently, cooperate, deign, endorse, face the music, give consent, give the nod, go along with, grant, hail, have no objection, hold with, in toto, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, let, live with it, mount the throne, nod, nod assent, not refuse, not resist, obey, okay, permit, ratify, receive, relent, resign, sanction, say aye, say yes, submit, subscribe, subscribe to, succumb, swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it, take kindly to, take office, vote affirmatively, vote aye, vote for, welcome, wink at, yes, yield assent

• accelerate, activate, aggravate, atomize, beef up, blow up, bombard, bundle, bustle, cleave, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, crack on, cross-bombard, crowd, deepen, dispatch, double, drive, drive on, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, expedite, fission, forward, gain ground, get going, haste, hasten, hasten on, heat up, heighten, hie on, hop up, hot up, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, impel, intensify, jazz up, key up, magnify, make complex, nucleize, open the throttle, pick up speed, precipitate, press, push, push on, push through, put on, put on steam, quicken, race, railroad through, ramify, redouble, reinforce, rev, rush, rush along, shake up, sharpen, smash the atom, soup up, speed, speed along, speed up, spur, stampede, step on it, step up, strengthen, triple, urge, whet, whip, whip along

• acceleration, accelerando, aggravation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, concentration, condensation, consolidation, deepening, double time, double-quick, double-quick time, drive, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, festination, forced march, forwarding, getaway, hastening, heating-up, heightening, hurrying, impetus, information explosion, intensification, magnification, pickup, population explosion, quickening, redoubling, reinforcement, speeding, speedup, step-up, strengthening, thrust, tightening

• accelerator, PCV valve, alternator, ammeter, atom smasher, atomic accelerator, atomic cannon, bearings, bonnet, boot, brake, bucket seat, bumper, camshaft, carburetor, chassis, choke, clutch, connecting rod, convertible top, cowl, crank, crankcase, crankshaft, cutout, cylinder, cylinder head, dash, dashboard, differential, distributor, exhaust, exhaust pipe, fan, fender, flywheel, gear, gearbox, gearshift, generator, headlight, headrest, hood, horn, ignition, intake, manifold, muffler, parking light, particle accelerator, piston, power brakes, power steering, radiator, rear-view mirror, seat belt, shock absorber, spark plug, speedometer, springs, starter, steering wheel, top, transmission, universal, valve, windscreen, windshield

• accent, Alexandrine, accent mark, accents, accentuate, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, articulation, bacchius, bar, beat, belabor, broad accent, brogue, burr, cadence, caesura, cancel, catalexis, character, chatter, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, comment, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, conversation, counterpoint, cretic, custos, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diacritical mark, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, direct, discourse, distinguish, dochmiac, dot, drawl, dwell on, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, elocution, emphasis, emphasize, epitrite, excellence, expression mark, feminine caesura, fermata, foot, force, gab, give emphasis to, grammatical accent, harp on, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, high order, high rank, highlight, hold, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, import, importance, inflection, intensity, interest, intonation, intonation pattern, ionic, italicize, jingle, key signature, language, lead, level of stress, ligature, lilt, mark, masculine caesura, materiality, measure, merit, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, metronomic mark, molossus, moment, mora, movement, notation, note, numbers, oral communication, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, paeon, palaver, paramountcy, parole, pause, pentameter, pentapody, period, pitch accent, place emphasis on, point up, prattle, precedence, preeminence, presa, primacy, primary stress, priority, proceleusmatic, prominence, pronunciation, prosodics, prosody, pulsation, pulse, punctuate, pyrrhic, quantity, rapping, regional accent, rhetorical accent, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical accent, rhythmical stress, rub in, secondary stress, segno, self-importance, set apart, set off, sign, signature, significance, slur, speaking, speech, spondee, spotlight, sprung rhythm, star, stress, stress accent, stress arsis, stress pattern, superiority, supremacy, swell, swing, symbol, syzygy, talk, talking, tempo mark, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, throb, tie, time signature, tone, tone accent, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, twang, underline, underscore, value, vinculum, weak stress, weight, words, worth, yakkety-yak, yakking

• accentuate, accent, belabor, dwell on, emphasize, give emphasis to, harp on, highlight, italicize, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, place emphasis on, point up, punctuate, rub in, spotlight, star, stress, underline, underscore

• accept, OK, abide by, abide with, accede, accede to, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acclaim, accord to, accredit, acknowledge, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquire, admire, admit, adopt, affiliate, affirm, agree, agree provisionally, agree to, agree with, allow, amen, applaud, approve, approve of, assent, assent grudgingly, assent to, assume, attack, attempt, authenticate, authorize, autograph, avow, be agreeable, be big, be certain, be content with, be easy with, be willing, bear, bear with, believe, believe without reservation, bless, blink at, bow, brook, buckle to, buy, capitulate, carry, catch, certify, cheer, come by, come in for, compass, comply, comprehend, concede, condescend, condone, confess, confirm, connive at, consent, consent to, consent to silently, cosign, countenance, countersign, credit, deign, derive, derive from, disregard, drag down, draw, draw from, embark in, embark upon, embrace, endeavor, endorse, endure, engage in, enter on, enter upon, espouse, esteem, experience, express general agreement, face the music, fall into, fall to, fancy, favor, follow, gain, get, get under way, give consent, give faith to, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give the nod, give thumbs up, go about, go along with, go at, go for, go in for, go into, go upon, grant, grasp, grin and abide, hail, have, have at, have coming in, have no objection, hold with, ignore, in toto, initial, judge not, keep in countenance, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, launch forth, launch into, lay about, lean over backwards, let go by, let in, let pass, like, listen to reason, live with, live with it, move into, nod, nod assent, not oppose, not refuse, not resist, not write off, notarize, obey, obtain, okay, overlook, own, pass, pass on, pass upon, permit, pitch into, plunge into, pocket, proceed to, pull down, put faith in, put up with, ratify, receive, recognize, relent, relish, resign, respect, rise above, rubber stamp, sanction, say amen to, say aye, say yes, seal, second, secure, see, see both sides, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set store by, set to, show no amazement, shrug, shrug it off, sign, sign and seal, stand, stomach, submit, submit to, subscribe to, succumb, suffer, support, suspend judgment, swallow, swallow it, swallow the pill, swear and affirm, swear to, tackle, take, take for granted, take in, take it, take kindly to, take on, take on faith, take on trust, take over, take stock in, take up, think well of, tolerate, treat as routine, trust, turn to, undergo, undersign, understand, undertake, underwrite, uphold, validate, venture upon, view with favor, view with indulgence, visa, vise, vote affirmatively, vote aye, vote for, warrant, welcome, wink at, withstand, yes, yield, yield assent, yield to

• acceptable, OK, adequate, admissible, adorable, agreeable, all right, alright, appetizing, attractive, average, bearable, better than nothing, commonplace, decent, delightful, desirable, eligible, endurable, enfranchised, enviable, exciting, fair, fairish, fit, fitted, good, good enough, goodish, grateful, gratifying, likable, lovable, moderate, mouth-watering, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, okay, ordinary, passable, pleasant, pleasing, presentable, pretty good, provocative, qualified, respectable, satisfactory, satisfying, sufficient, suitable, supportable, taking, tantalizing, tempting, tenable, tidy, to be desired, tolerable, toothsome, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable, viable, welcome, winning, with voice, with vote, workmanlike, worth having, worthy

• acceptance, CD, IOU, John Hancock, MO, OK, acceptance bill, acceptation, acception, accession, accord, acknowledgment, acquiescence, acquisition, adherence, admiration, admission, admittance, adoption, affiliation, affirmance, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, agreement in principle, allowance, appreciation, approbation, approval, assent, assentation, assumption, authentication, authorization, avowal, aye, bank acceptance, bank check, baptism, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, blessing, certificate, certificate of deposit, certification, certified check, check, checkbook, cheque, clemency, clementness, comfort, commercial paper, compassion, complaisance, compliance, composure, concession, concurrence, confession, confirmation, connivance, consent, content, contentedness, contentment, countenance, countersignature, debenture, declaration, deference, demand bill, demand draft, derivation, draft, due bill, eagerness, ease, easiness, easygoingness, embracement, endorsement, endurance, enlistment, enrollment, entire satisfaction, espousal, esteem, euphoria, exchequer bill, favor, favorable vote, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, fulfillment, general agreement, gentleness, getting, go-ahead, green light, happiness, hearty assent, homage, humaneness, humanity, immission, imprimatur, inauguration, induction, indulgence, initiation, installation, instatement, intromission, investiture, kneeling, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, letter of credit, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderateness, money order, negotiable instrument, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, notarization, note, note of hand, obedience, obeisance, okay, ordination, paper, passiveness, passivity, patience, patience of Job, patientness, peace of mind, permission, perseverance, pity, postal order, profession, promissory note, promptitude, promptness, ratification, readiness, receipt, receival, received meaning, receiving, reception, recognition, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, rubber stamp, sanction, satisfaction, seal, seal of approval, self-control, sight bill, sight draft, sigil, signature, signet, softness, stamp, stamp of approval, stoicism, subjection, submission, submittal, subscription, sufferance, supineness, support, sweet reasonableness, taking, tenderness, the nod, time bill, time draft, tolerance, toleration, trade acceptance, treasury bill, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, usage, validation, visa, vise, voice, vote, voucher, waiting game, waiting it out, warm assent, warrant, welcome, well-being, willingness, yea, yea vote, yielding

• acceptation, acceptance, acception, acquiescence, assurance, assuredness, belief, certainty, confidence, credence, credit, credulity, dependence, faith, hope, import, intendment, message, purport, received meaning, reception, reliance, reliance on, sense, significance, significancy, signification, stock, store, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, trust, understanding, usage

• accepted, Christian, acclaimed, accustomed, acknowledged, admired, admitted, adopted, advocated, affirmed, allowed, applauded, appointed, approved, assumed, authentic, authenticated, authoritative, avowed, backed, being done, believed, canonical, carried, cathedral, certified, chanced, chosen, chronic, comme il faut, conceded, confessed, confirmed, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, countersigned, credited, cried up, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, designated, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, embraced, endorsed, espoused, established, evangelical, everyday, ex cathedra, faithful, familiar, favored, favorite, firm, formal, generally accepted, granted, habitual, handpicked, highly touted, in good odor, in hand, in process, in progress, in the works, literal, magisterial, meet, named, nominated, normal, notarized, obtaining, of the faith, official, on the anvil, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, passed, picked, popular, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, professed, proper, ratified, received, recognized, recommended, regular, regulation, right, routine, sanctioned, scriptural, sealed, seemly, select, selected, set, signed, sound, stamped, standard, stock, supported, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true-blue, trusted, unanimously elected, uncontested, under way, undertaken, underwritten, undisputed, undoubted, unquestioned, unsuspected, usual, validated, warranted, well-thought-of, widespread, wonted

• accepting, Spartan, abject, acquiescent, agreeable, armed with patience, assenting, at ease, clement, comfortable, compassionate, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, composed, consenting, content, contented, disciplined, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, eupeptic, euphoric, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, happy, humane, indulgent, lax, lenient, long-suffering, longanimous, merciful, mild, moderate, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obedient, of good comfort, passive, patient, patient as Job, persevering, philosophical, pleased, reconciled, resigned, sans souci, satisfied, self-controlled, servile, soft, stoic, submissive, subservient, supine, tender, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, unassertive, uncomplaining, understanding, unrepining, unresistant, unresisting, without care

• access, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rasputin, Rolandic epilepsy, Svengali, VIP, abdominal epilepsy, accessibility, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, addition, adit, admission, admittance, advance, advent, affect epilepsy, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, air lock, aisle, akinetic epilepsy, alley, ambulatory, amplification, aperture, apoplexy, appreciation, approach, approachability, approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, arcade, arrest, artery, ascent, attack, attainability, augmentation, autonomic epilepsy, availability, avenue, bad influence, ballooning, big wheel, blaze of temper, bloating, blockage, blowup, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, burst, cardiac epilepsy, channel, cloister, clonic spasm, clonus, colonnade, come-at-ableness, coming, coming near, coming toward, communication, conduit, connection, convulsion, corridor, cortical epilepsy, court, covered way, cramp, crescendo, cursive epilepsy, defile, development, diurnal epilepsy, eclampsia, edema, elevation, eminence grise, enlargement, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, exit, expansion, explosion, extension, falling sickness, ferry, fit, five-percenter, flare-up, flood, flowing toward, focal epilepsy, ford, forthcoming, frenzy, friend at court, gain, gallery, gangplank, gangway, getatableness, gettableness, good influence, grand mal, gray eminence, greatening, grip, growth, gush, gust, hall, haute mal, heavyweight, hidden hand, high words, hike, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, imminence, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming, increase, increment, infiltration, inflation, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingoing, ingress, ingression, ingroup, inlet, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interchange, interpenetration, intersection, introduction, introgression, intrusion, jump, junction, key, kingmaker, lane, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, leakage, leap, lobby, lobbyist, lockjaw, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, matutinal epilepsy, means of access, menstrual epilepsy, mounting, multiplication, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nearing, nearness, nocturnal epilepsy, obtainability, obtainableness, occlusion, oncoming, onset, open arms, open door, open sesame, opening, openness, orgasm, outburst, outlet, overpass, pang, paroxysm, pass, passage, passageway, penetrability, penetration, percolation, perviousness, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, portico, powers that be, pressure group, procurability, procurableness, productiveness, proliferation, proximation, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, railroad tunnel, raise, reachableness, reception, reflex epilepsy, rise, rotatoria, route, sally, scene, securableness, seepage, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, sinister influence, snowballing, spasm, special interests, special-interest group, spell, spread, stitch, stoppage, storm, stroke, surge, swelling, taking, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, the Establishment, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traject, trajet, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, tumescence, tunnel, turn, twinge, ucinate epilepsy, underpass, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, very important person, vestibule, visitation, waxing, way, way in, wheeler-dealer, widening, wire-puller

• accessible, adaptable, affirmed, all-around, amenable, announced, approachable, at hand, attainable, attendant, available, broadcast, brought to notice, candid, circulated, come-at-able, common knowledge, common property, communicative, convenient, conversable, current, declared, demonstrative, diffused, disseminated, distributed, effusive, employable, expansive, extroverted, findable, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, getatable, gettable, gossipy, handy, immanent, immediate, impressionable, in circulation, in print, in view, indwelling, influenceable, inherent, made public, malleable, movable, newsy, obtainable, of all work, on board, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, open, open to, open-minded, openable, operative, outgoing, outspoken, penetrable, permeable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, practicable, present, proclaimed, procurable, propagated, public, published, reachable, ready, receptive, reported, responsive, securable, self-revealing, self-revelatory, sociable, spread, stated, suasible, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, talkative, telecast, televised, to be had, to hand, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, usable, versatile, weak, within call, within reach, within sight

• accession, accedence, acceptance, access, accessory, accompaniment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acquiescence, acquirement, acquisition, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjunction, adjuvant, advance, advent, affixation, afflux, affluxion, agglutination, aggrandizement, agreement, agreement in principle, amplification, annex, annexation, anointing, anointment, appanage, appendage, appendant, appointment, appreciation, approach, approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, appurtenance, appurtenant, arrogation, ascent, assent, assentation, assignment, assumption, attachment, attainment, augment, augmentation, authorization, ballooning, bloating, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, coda, coming, coming by, coming near, coming toward, complement, compliance, concomitant, concurrence, consecration, consent, continuation, corollary, coronation, crescendo, delegation, deputation, development, dragging down, earnings, edema, election, elevation, empowerment, enlargement, enthronement, expansion, extension, extrapolation, fixture, flood, flowing toward, forthcoming, gain, gaining, general agreement, getting, getting hold of, greatening, growth, gush, hearty assent, hike, imminence, inauguration, increase, increment, induction, inflation, installation, installment, instatement, investiture, joining, jump, junction, juxtaposition, leap, legitimate succession, making, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, mounting, multiplication, nearing, nearness, obtainment, obtention, offshoot, oncoming, pendant, placement, prefixation, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, productiveness, proliferation, proximation, raise, reinforcement, rise, securement, seizure, side effect, side issue, snowballing, spread, succession, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation, support, surge, swelling, tailpiece, taking office, taking over, trover, tumescence, undergirding, uniting, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, usurpation, warm assent, waxing, welcome, widening, winning

• accessory, a party to, abettor, accessary, accession, accessories, accident, accidental, accompaniment, accompanying, accomplice, accomplice in crime, accretion, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additional, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, adscititious, adventitious, aide, ancillary, annex, annexation, another, appanage, appanages, appendage, appendages, appendant, appendix, appointments, appurtenance, appurtenances, appurtenant, ascititious, assistant, assisting, associated, attachment, attendant, attending, augment, augmentation, auxiliary, belongings, casual, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, circumstantial, coconspirator, coda, cohort, coincident, collaborator, collateral, colleague, combined, complement, component, concomitant, concurrent, confederate, conjoint, conspirator, contingency, contingent, continuation, contributory, copartner, corollary, correlative, cotenant, coupled, defendant, doodad, engaged, extension, extra, extrapolation, farther, fellow, fellow conspirator, fixture, fortuitous, fostering, fresh, frill, further, happenstance, helper, helping, implicated, incidental, increase, increment, inessential, instrumental, involved, joined, joint, litigant, litigationist, litigator, material things, mere chance, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, more, movables, mutual, new, nonessential, not-self, nurtural, nutricial, offshoot, other, paired, panel, parallel, paraphernalia, partaker, partaking, participant, participating, participative, participator, participatory, parties litigant, partner, party, pendant, perquisites, personal effects, plaintiff, plus, reinforcement, secondary, serving, shareholder, sharer, sharing, side effect, side issue, simultaneous, socius criminis, spare, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, suitor, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, tailpiece, things, trappings, tributary, twin, ulterior, undergirding, unessential, witness

• accident prone, breakneck, careless, desperate, devil-may-care, furious, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, mad, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, reckless, slap-bang, slapdash, wanton, wild

• accident, accessary, accessory, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, auxiliary, blow, blunder, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance, chance hit, collateral, collision, coming to be, contingency, contingent, contretemps, crack-up, crash, destiny, disaster, event, eventuality, eventuation, extra, fate, fluke, fortuity, fortune, freak accident, grief, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, ill hap, incidence, incidental, inessential, kismet, long odds, long shot, luck, lucky shot, materialization, mere chance, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, mistake, nasty blow, nonessential, not-self, other, pileup, realization, secondary, serendipity, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, tragedy, unessential, wreck

• accidental, accessory, accident, accidentally, accompanying, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, ado, adscititious, adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, breve, by-the-way, casual, casually, causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, coincident, coincidental, collateral, conditional, contingency, contingent, crotchet, current, demisemiquaver, dependent, destinal, dicey, doing, dominant, dominant note, double whole note, eighth note, enharmonic, enharmonic note, eventuating, extra, fatal, fatidic, flat, fluky, fortuitous, fortuitously, going on, half note, happening, happenstance, hemidemisemiquaver, iffy, in hand, in the wind, inadvertent, incidental, indeterminate, inessential, lucky, mere chance, minim, musical note, natural, nonessential, not-self, note, occasional, occurring, odd, on, on foot, ongoing, other, parenthetical, passing, patent note, prevailing, prevalent, provisional, quarter note, quaver, random, report, responding note, resultant, risky, secondary, semibreve, semiquaver, serendipitous, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, spiccato, staccato, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, sustained note, taking place, tercet, thirty-second note, tone, triplet, unanticipated, uncalculated, uncaused, under way, undesigned, undetermined, unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unlooked-for, unlucky, unmeant, unplanned, unpredictable, unpremeditated, unpurposed, unwitting, whole note

• acclaim, abide by, accede, accept, acclamation, acquiesce, acquiesce in, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, applause, assent, big hand, burst of applause, buy, celebrity, character, cheer, cheer on, clap, clap the hands, clapping, clapping of hands, compliment, comply, consent, eclat, encore, exalt, fame, famousness, figure, give a hand, give the nod, glorify, glory, hail, hand, handclap, handclapping, hear it for, hold with, homage, honor, in toto, kudos, magnify, name, nod, nod assent, notoriety, notoriousness, ovation, plaudit, plaudits, popularity, praise, publicity, receive, reclame, recognition, recommend, renown, report, reputation, repute, reverence, root for, round of applause, subscribe to, take kindly to, the bubble reputation, thunder of applause, vogue, vote for, welcome, yes, yield assent

• acclaimed, accepted, admired, admitted, advocated, applauded, approved, backed, celebrated, cried up, distinguished, fabled, famed, famous, far-famed, far-heard, favored, favorite, highly touted, honored, in good odor, legendary, marked, much acclaimed, mythical, notable, noted, notorious, of mark, of note, popular, received, recommended, renowned, supported, talked-about, talked-of, well-known, well-thought-of

• acclamation, acclaim, accord, accordance, agreement, agreement of all, applause, big hand, burst of applause, cheer, chorus, clap, clapping, clapping of hands, common assent, common consent, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, eclat, encore, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, hand, handclap, handclapping, harmony, like-mindedness, meeting of minds, mutual understanding, one accord, one voice, ovation, plaudit, plaudits, popularity, round of applause, same mind, single voice, thunder of applause, total agreement, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, unison, universal agreement

• acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, break, break in, case harden, condition, confirm, domesticate, domesticize, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, habituate, harden, housebreak, inure, naturalize, orient, orientate, season, tame, toughen, train, wont

• accolade, adulation, apotheosis, award, badge, bays, bepraisement, citation, congratulation, decoration, deification, distinction, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, flattery, glorification, glory, hero worship, homage, hommage, honor, honorable mention, idolatry, idolizing, kudos, laud, laudation, laurels, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, mention, overpraise, paean, panegyric, praise, tribute

• accommodate, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, accustom, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, advance, afford, agree with, alter, ameliorate, arrange, arrange matters, assimilate, assimilate to, attune, balance, be guided by, bend, bestow, better, billet, board, bow, break, break in, break up, bring to terms, bring together, cancel, case harden, cater to, change, chime in with, close, close with, clothe, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, compound, compromise, conclude, condition, confirm, conform, contribute, convenience, convert, coordinate, cop out, correct, correspond, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, cut to, defer, deform, denature, discipline, diversify, do a favor, do a service, do right by, domesticate, domesticize, domicile, domiciliate, donate, duck responsibility, encase, enclose, endow, entertain, equalize, equate, equip, establish, evade responsibility, even, even up, fall in with, familiarize, favor, favor with, fill, fill up, find, fit, fix, fix up, float a loan, follow, fund, furnish, furnish accommodations, gear to, gentle, give, give and take, give way, go by, go fifty-fifty, habituate, harbor, harden, harmonize, heal the breach, heap upon, hold, homologate, homologize, house, housebreak, humor, improve, indulge, indulge with, integrate, inure, invest, keep, key to, lavish upon, lease-lend, lend, lend-lease, level, loan, loan-shark, lodge, maintain, make a deal, make an adjustment, make available, make concessions, make conform, make plumb, make provision for, make uniform, make up, measure, mediate, meet, meet halfway, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mold, mutate, naturalize, negotiate a loan, oblige, observe, orient, orient the map, orientate, overthrow, patch things up, play politics, poise, pour on, prepare, present, proportion, provide, provide for, put in tune, put up, quadrate, qualify, quarter, re-create, reach a compromise, realign, rebuild, reconcile, reconstruct, recruit, rectify, redesign, refit, reform, regulate, remake, renew, replenish, reshape, resolve, restore harmony, restructure, reunite, revamp, revive, right, ring the changes, rub off corners, season, serve, set, set right, settle, settle differences, settle with, shape, shelter, shift the scene, show kindness to, shower down upon, shuffle the cards, similarize, smooth it over, split the difference, square, stock, store, straighten, straighten out, strike a balance, strike a bargain, submit, subsidize, subvert, suit, supply, support, surrender, sync, synchronize, tailor, take the mean, tally with, tame, train, treat well, trim to, true, true up, tune, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, weave peace between, wont, work a change, work out, worsen, yield

• accommodating, accessible, accommodative, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, affable, agreeable, amenable, amiable, attentive, benevolent, benign, benignant, bribable, civil, complaisant, compliant, conciliatory, considerate, cooperative, corruptible, courteous, decent, deferential, delicate, fair, friendly, generous, graceful, gracious, heedful, helpful, hospitable, humble, indulgent, kind, kindly, lenient, meek, mindful, mindful of others, obedient, obliging, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive, permissive, pliable, pliant, polite, reconciled, regardful, resigned, respectful, solicitous, submissive, tactful, thoughtful, tolerant, uncomplaining, unresisting, urbane, yielding

• accommodation, Wall Street loan, abatement of differences, about-face, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodations, accord, accordance, accustoming, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, advance, advantage, agreement, alignment, alteration, amelioration, amenity, apostasy, appliance, appurtenance, arrangement, assimilation, attunement, award, awarding, bargain, bearings, bed, bed and board, bestowal, bestowment, betterment, board, board and room, break, breaking, breaking-in, burden, call loan, call money, capacity, case hardening, change, change of heart, changeableness, closing, coaptation, collateral loan, communication, compliance, composition, composition of differences, compromise, concession, conclusion, conditioning, conferment, conferral, conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, constructive change, content, continuity, contribution, convenience, conventionality, conversion, coordination, cop-out, cordage, correspondence, deal, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deliverance, delivery, demand loan, desertion of principle, deterioration, deviation, difference, digs, discontinuity, disorientation, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, domestication, donation, endowment, equalization, equalizing, equating, equation, equilibration, evasion of responsibility, evening, evening up, external loan, facilities, facility, familiarization, favor, financial assistance, fitting, flexibility, flip-flop, foreign loan, furnishment, gifting, give-and-take, giving, giving way, gradual change, grant, grant-in-aid, granting, habituation, hardening, harmonization, harmony, housebreaking, housing, impartation, impartment, improvement, integration, inurement, investiture, keep, keeping, lend, liberality, limit, line, loan, lodgings, long-term loan, malleability, measure, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, mutual concession, naturalization, obedience, observance, offer, orientation, orthodoxy, overthrow, pliancy, policy loan, poundage, premises, presentation, presentment, provision, qualification, quantity, quarters, radical change, re-creation, realignment, reconcilement, reconciliation, redesign, reform, reformation, regulation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, room, rooms, sealing, seasoning, secured loan, settlement, shelter, shift, short-term loan, signature, signing, solemnization, space, squaring, stowage, strictness, subscription, subsistence, sudden change, supplying, surrender, switch, synchronization, taming, terms, time loan, timing, tonnage, total change, traditionalism, training, transition, treaty, turn, turnabout, understanding, uniformity, unsecured loan, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, volume, vouchsafement, worsening, yielding

• accommodations, accommodation, bed, bed and board, berth, board, board and room, diggings, digs, facilities, housing, keep, living quarters, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, quarters, rooms, roost, shelter, sleeping place, subsistence

• accompaniment, accession, accessory, accordance, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, agreement, alliance, alto, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, association, attachment, augment, augmentation, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, cahoots, canto, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, co-working, coaction, coda, coetaneity, coetaneousness, coevalneity, coevalness, coexistence, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, complement, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concomitant, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conjunction, consilience, conspiracy, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, continuation, continuo, contralto, cooperation, corollary, correspondence, descant, drone, extension, extrapolation, figured bass, fixture, ground bass, increase, increment, isochronism, junction, line, offshoot, parasitism, part, pendant, plain chant, plain song, prick song, reinforcement, saprophytism, side effect, side issue, simultaneity, soprano, supplement, symbiosis, synchronism, synchronization, synergy, tailpiece, tenor, thorough bass, treble, undergirding, undersong, union, unison, united action, voice, voice part

• accompany, agree, associate, associate with, assort with, attend, band together, be in phase, be in time, chaperon, chaperone, chord, coexist, coextend, coincide, combine, companion, concertize, concur, confederate, consociate, consort with, contemporize, convoy, couple with, do, escort, execute, flock together, go along with, go with, hang around with, herd together, interpret, isochronize, keep company with, keep in step, keep pace with, make music, match, perform, play, play by ear, render, run with, squire, symphonize, synchronize, time, usher, wait on

• accompanying, accessory, accidental, accordant, ado, afloat, afoot, agreeing, associate, associated, at one with, attendant, attending, circumstantial, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, coinstantaneous, collaborative, collateral, collective, collusive, combined, combining, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, consilient, conspiratorial, contemporaneous, contemporary, conterminous, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate, correlative, coterminous, coupled, coworking, current, doing, eventuating, fellow, going on, happening, harmonious, in hand, in the wind, incidental, isochronal, isochronous, joined, joint, meeting, mutual, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, ongoing, paired, parallel, parasitic, passing, prevailing, prevalent, resultant, saprophytic, simultaneous, symbiotic, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, taking place, twin, under way, unison, unisonous, united, uniting

• accomplice, a party to, abettor, accessary, accessory, accomplice in crime, ally, assistant, associate, coconspirator, cohort, collaborator, colleague, confederate, conspirator, copartner, cotenant, fellow, fellow conspirator, henchman, partaker, participant, participator, partner, party, shareholder, sharer, socius criminis

• accomplish, achieve, act, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be productive, be received, blow in, bob up, bring about, bring into being, bring off, bring through, bring to completion, bring to fruition, bring to pass, carry off, carry out, carry through, cause, check in, clock in, come, come in, come to, come to hand, commit, compass, complete, conclude, conduct, consummate, cope with, crown with success, cut, deal with, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, effect, effectuate, eke out, enact, end, engineer, execute, fetch, fetch up at, fill in, fill out, find, finish, fulfill, gain, get by, get in, get there, get to, go and do, hack, handle, hit, hit town, industrialize, inflict, knock off, make, make good, make it, make up, manage, mass-produce, mature, overproduce, pay, perform, perpetrate, piece out, polish off, pop up, produce, pull in, pull off, punch in, put across, put away, put over, put through, reach, realize, refill, render, replenish, ring in, roll in, round out, score, show up, sign in, succeed, swing, take and do, take care of, time in, top off, transact, turn the trick, turn up, up and do, volume-produce, win, wind up, work, work out, wreak

• accomplished fact, accomplished, accomplishment, achieved, achievement, act, acta, action, actuality, adventure, at concert pitch, attained, attainment, authenticity, blow, career, carrying out, coached, compassed, consummated, consummation, conversant, coup, dealings, deed, discharge, discharged, dispatch, dispatched, disposed of, doing, doings, effected, effectuated, effectuation, effort, endeavor, enterprise, executed, execution, exploit, factuality, fait accompli, feat, finished, fruition, fulfilled, fulfillment, gest, go, grim reality, hand, handiwork, historicity, implementation, implemented, initiate, initiated, job, maneuver, measure, mission accomplished, move, not a dream, objective existence, operation, overt act, passage, performance, practiced, prepared, primed, proceeding, production, professional, reality, realization, realized, res gestae, set at rest, skilled, step, stroke, stunt, success, technical, thing, thing done, tour de force, trained, transaction, truth, turn, undertaking, work, works, wrought, wrought out

• accomplishment, ability, accomplished fact, accomplishments, achievement, acquirement, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, act, acta, action, administration, advance, advancement, advent, adventure, amplification, answer, appearance, approach, arrival, ascertainment, attainment, attainments, blossoming, blow, bringing to fruition, clearing up, coming, commission, completion, conclusion, conduct, consummation, coup, cracking, culmination, dealings, decipherment, decoding, deed, denouement, determination, development, developmental change, discharge, disentanglement, dispatch, doing, doings, edification, education, effectuation, effort, elaboration, enactment, end, end result, endeavor, enlargement, enlightenment, enterprise, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, execution, expansion, explanation, explication, exploit, fait accompli, feat, finding, finding-out, finish, flowering, fortunate outcome, furtherance, gest, gift, go, gradual change, growth, hand, handiwork, handling, illumination, implementation, instruction, interpretation, issue, job, learning, liberal education, management, maneuver, maturation, measure, move, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, operation, outcome, overproduction, overt act, passage, performance, perpetration, proceeding, production, productiveness, progress, progression, prosperity, prosperous issue, reaching, realization, reason, res gestae, resolution, resolving, result, riddling, ripening, rise, skill, solution, solving, sophistication, sorting out, step, store of knowledge, stroke, stunt, success, talent, thing, thing done, tour de force, transaction, triumph, turn, undertaking, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, victory, work, working, working-out, works

• accord, OK, accede to, accept, acceptance, acclamation, accommodate, accommodate with, accommodation, accord to, accordance, acquiescence, adapt, adapt to, adaptation, adaption, addition, adjunct, adjust, adjust to, adjustment, administer, admit, affairs, affiliation, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, afford, agree, agree in opinion, agree to, agree with, agreement, agreement of all, alliance, allot, allow, answer to, approbation, approval, approve, approve of, approximation, arrangement, assemblage, assent, assimilate, assimilate to, associate, association, assonate, assort with, atone, attune, attunement, award, aye, bargain, be consistent, be guided by, be harmonious, be in cahoots, be in tune, be of one, be uniform with, be willing, bend, bestow, bestow on, binding agreement, blend, blessing, bond, cartel, cessation of combat, check, chime, chime in with, chiming, chord, chorus, close with, closeness, coact, coadunate, cohere, coherence, coincide, coincidence, collaborate, collective agreement, collude, combination, combine, common assent, common consent, communicate, compact, compatibility, compliance, comply, comply with, compose, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, concur, concurrence, condescend, confer, conform, conform to, conform with, conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjoin, connectedness, connection, connivance, connive, connive at, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consent to silently, consentaneity, consist with, consistency, consonance, consonancy, consort, consortium, conspire, contiguity, contract, contrariety, convention, conventionality, cooperate, cooperation, coordinate, correct, correspond, correspondence, cotton to, covenant, covenant of salt, cut to, deal, deal out, dealings, deduction, deign, diapason, dicker, discipline, dish out, disjunction, dispense, ditto, dole, dole out, donate, dovetail, eagerness, echo, empathize, employment contract, endorse, endorsement, equalize, equivalence, euphony, exemption from hostilities, extend, fall in together, fall in with, filiation, fit, fit together, fix, flexibility, follow, fork out, formal agreement, freedom from war, gear to, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, get along, get along with, get on with, gift, gift with, give, give consent, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, go along with, go by, go together, go with, grant, hand out, hang together, happen together, harmonics, harmonize, harmonize with, harmony, have no objection, heap, heavy harmony, help to, hit, hold together, hold with, homologate, homologize, homology, homophony, identify with, impart, interchange, intercourse, interlock, intersect, intersection, intimacy, ironclad agreement, issue, jibe, join, junction, keeping, key to, lavish, leave, legal agreement, legal contract, let, let have, liaison, liberty in tranquillity, like-mindedness, line, link, linkage, linking, lock, make conform, make plumb, make possible, make uniform, malleability, match, measure, meet, meeting of minds, melodize, mete, mete out, mold, monochord, monody, musicalize, mutual agreement, mutual attraction, mutual understanding, nearness, nod, nod assent, not refuse, obedience, observance, observe, offer, okay, one accord, one voice, oneness, orthodoxy, overlap, pact, paction, parallel, parallelism, pax, peace, peacetime, permission, permit, pliancy, pour, present, proffer, promise, promptitude, promptness, propinquity, proportion, protocol, proximity, put in tune, rain, rapport, ratification, ratify, readiness, reciprocate, reconcile, reconcilement, reconciliation, rectify, register, register with, regulate, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, release, render, respond to, right, rub off corners, same mind, sanction, say aye, say the word, say yes, self-consistency, serve, set, set right, settle, shape, shell out, shower, side with, similarity, similarize, sing in chorus, single voice, slip, snow, sort with, sound in tune, sound together, square, square with, stand together, stipulation, straighten, strictness, strike in with, submission, suit, symmetry, sympathize, sympathy, symphonize, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization, synchronize, synergize, tailor, take kindly to, tally, tally with, tender, three-part harmony, tie, tie-in, timing, total agreement, traditionalism, transaction, treaty, trim to, true, true up, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understand one another, understanding, ungrudgingness, uniformity, union, union contract, unison, unisonance, unite, universal agreement, unloathness, unreluctance, valid contract, vote affirmatively, vote aye, vouchsafe, wage contract, willingness, wink at, yield, yield assent

• accordance, acclamation, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adaptation, adaption, adherence, adjustment, affinity, agape, agreement, agreement of all, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assent, assimilation, association, attune, attunement, award, awarding, bestowal, bestowment, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, cahoots, calm, care, caritas, carrying out, cement of friendship, charity, chime, chiming, chorus, closeness, co-working, coaction, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, common assent, common consent, communication, communion, community, community of interests, comparability, comparison, compatibility, compliance, concentus, concert, concerted action, concession, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, conferment, conferral, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consilience, consistency, consonance, consonancy, consort, conspiracy, constancy, continuity, contribution, conventionality, cooperation, copying, correspondence, deliverance, delivery, diapason, discharge, donation, empathy, endowment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, euphony, evenness, execution, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, flexibility, frictionlessness, fulfillment, furnishment, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, gifting, giving, good vibes, good vibrations, grant, granting, happy family, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, heed, heeding, homogeneity, homophony, identity, imitation, impartation, impartment, intersection, investiture, junction, keeping, kinship, liberality, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, line, love, malleability, meeting of minds, metaphor, mimicking, monochord, monody, monolithism, mutual understanding, mutuality, nearness, obedience, observance, observation, offer, one accord, one voice, oneness, orthodoxy, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, parity, peace, performance, persistence, pliancy, practice, presentation, presentment, provision, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, reconcilement, reconciliation, resemblance, respect, same mind, sameness, saprophytism, satisfaction, self-consistency, semblance, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, single voice, solidarity, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, strictness, subscription, supplying, surrender, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization, synergy, tally, team spirit, three-part harmony, timing, total agreement, traditionalism, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action, unity, universal agreement, unruffledness, vouchsafement

• according to Hoyle, according to regulations, according to rule, appropriate, by the book, by the numbers, condign, correct, decent, decorous, due, fit, fitting, good, kosher, nice, normal, normative, proper, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, seemly, suitable

• according to, accommodated to, adapted to, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, answerable to, by, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in uniformity with, per, proper to, suitable for, uniform with

• accordingly, according to circumstances, and so, appropriately, as a consequence, as a result, as it is, as matters stand, at that rate, because of that, because of this, compliantly, conformably, consequently, equally, ergo, finally, for that, for that cause, for that reason, for this cause, for this reason, for which reason, hence, hereat, in that case, in that event, inconsequence, inevitably, it follows that, naturally, naturellement, necessarily, of course, of necessity, on that account, on that ground, on this account, propter hoc, suitably, that being so, then, thence, thereat, therefor, therefore, thus, thusly, thuswise, under the circumstances, whence, wherefore, wherefrom

• accost, address, advance, apostrophize, appeal to, approach, appropinquate, approximate, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, bespeak, bid good day, bid good morning, bow to, buttonhole, call to, close, close in, close with, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, confront, curtsy, draw near, draw nigh, encounter, exchange greetings, gain upon, greet, hail, halloo, invoke, kiss, kiss hands, lift the hat, narrow the gap, near, nod to, proximate, pull the forelock, salute, say hello, shake, shake hands, sidle up to, speak, speak fair, speak to, step up, take aside, talk to, touch the hat, uncover

• account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, allegorize, apply to, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attribute to, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, charge on, charge to, clarify, clear, clear up, confess, connect with, crack, credit with, cry sour grapes, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, destigmatize, do justice to, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exculpate, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, fasten upon, father upon, fix on, fix upon, give reason for, give the meaning, hang on, illuminate, illustrate, impute to, justify, lay to, make clear, make plain, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point to, popularize, purge, rationalize, refer to, rehabilitate, reinstate, restore, saddle on, saddle with, set down to, settle upon, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel, vindicate, warrant

• account, a reckoning of, account current, account for, account of, account rendered, account stated, accounting, accounts, acquaintance, acta, adjudge, adjudicate, advantage, aggregate, allow, allow for, allowance, amount, anecdotage, anecdote, annals, announcement, annual, answer for, approbation, approval, assessment, balance, bank account, bank balance, be judicious, benefit, bill, bill of account, bill of fare, bill of lading, blackmail, blood money, blue book, body count, books, box score, brief, briefing, bulletin, calculation, capitulation, carte, cash account, cast, catalog, census, census report, charge account, check, check of, checking account, chronicle, communication, communique, computation, consequence, consider, consideration, control account, conversion factor, correspondence, count, count of, credit, credit account, data, datum, deem, description, difference, directory, dispatch, documentation, dun, election returns, emolument, enlightenment, enumeration, epic, epos, esteem, estimation, evidence, exercise judgment, expense account, explain, explanation, express an opinion, face, face value, facts, factual information, familiarization, favor, fee, footing, form an opinion, gen, general information, guidebook, handout, hard information, head count, history, hold, honor, hush money, importance, incidental information, income account, info, information, initiation fee, instruction, intelligence, interest, inventory, invoice, itemized bill, judge, justify, knowledge, ledger, letters, light, list, manifest, market value, memorial, mention, menu, merit, message, mileage, minutes, narration, narrative, net worth, nose count, note, notice, notification, number, par value, pennyworth, pine, pipe roll, presentation, presume, proceedings, product, profit, promotional material, proof, provision account, publication, publicity, quantity, rate, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, record, recording, recount, recounting, regard, register, registry, rehearsal, relation, release, relic, remains, repertory, report, respect, retainer, retaining fee, returns, revenue account, roll, rolls, roster, rota, running account, saga, sake, sales account, savings account, score, scot, scroll, selling account, sidelight, significance, standing, statement, stipend, stock account, story, sum, summary, summation, summing, summing up, suppose, suspense account, tab, table, tabs of, take into consideration, take note of, tale, tally, tally of, the bottom line, the dope, the goods, the know, the record, the scoop, the story, the whole story, think of, token, total, trace, track of, transactions, transmission, tribute, use, valuation account, value, value received, vestige, white book, white paper, whole, word, worth, x number, yarn, yearbook

• accountable, Englishable, alleged, amenable, answerable, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, chargeable, charged, construable, credited, definable, derivable from, derivational, derivative, describable, due, explainable, explicable, imputable, imputed, interpretable, liable, obligated, obliged, owing, putative, referable, referred to, renderable, responsible, responsible for, to blame, traceable, translatable

• accountant, CA, CPA, abacist, accountant general, actuary, amanuensis, archivist, auditor, bank accountant, bank examiner, bookkeeper, bursar, calculator, cashier, cashkeeper, certified public accountant, chamberlain, chartered accountant, clerk, comptroller, computer, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, curator, depositary, depository, documentalist, engraver, estimator, figurer, filing clerk, financial officer, journalizer, librarian, liquidator, marker, notary, notary public, paymaster, prothonotary, purse bearer, purser, receiver, reckoner, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, statistician, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, timekeeper, treasurer, trustee

• accounting, account, account rendered, accountancy, acta, analysis, annual, audit, auditing, automatic electronic navigation, bookkeeping, braking, brief, bulletin, census, census report, computation, coordination, cost accounting, cost system, cost-accounting system, counting, dactylonomy, double-entry bookkeeping, election returns, enumeration, fact distribution, foliation, forecasts, inspection, inventorying, manipulation, measurement, minutes, monetary arithmetic, nonlinear calibrations, numbering, numeration, output measurement, pagination, proceedings, processing, quantification, quantization, record keeping, report, returns, single-entry bookkeeping, statement, steering, supersonic flow detection, tally, tallying, telling, the record, transactions, yearbook

• accouterment, armament, catering, chandlery, endowment, equipment, finding, fitting out, furnishing, furnishment, investment, logistics, outfitting, preparation, procurement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, selling, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, victualing

• accredit, OK, accept, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, affirm, amen, apply to, approve, ascribe to, assign, assign to, attach to, attest, attribute, attribute to, authenticate, authorize, autograph, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, certify, charge, charge on, charge to, charter, commend, commission, commit, confess, confirm, connect with, consign, cosign, countersign, credit, credit with, delegate, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, empower, enable, endorse, entrust, fasten upon, father upon, fix on, fix upon, give in charge, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, hang on, impute, impute to, initial, introduce, lay, lay to, license, mission, notarize, pass, pass on, pass upon, permit, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point to, post, present, ratify, recommend, refer, refer to, rubber stamp, saddle on, saddle with, sanction, say amen to, seal, second, send out, set down to, settle upon, sign, sign and seal, subscribe to, support, swear and affirm, swear to, transfer, undersign, underwrite, validate, visa, vise, vouch for, warrant

• accroach, adopt, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, colonize, commandeer, confiscate, conquer, encroach, enslave, expropriate, hog, indent, infringe, invade, jump a claim, make free with, make use of, monopolize, occupy, overrun, play God, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, pretend to, requisition, seize, sequester, sit on, squat on, subjugate, take, take all of, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, trespass, usurp

• accrue, accrue from, accrue to, accumulate, advance, appreciate, arise from, balloon, be contingent on, be due to, be received, bloat, boom, breed, broaden, bud from, come from, come in, come out of, come to hand, crescendo, depend on, derive from, descend from, develop, emanate from, emerge from, ensue from, fall due, fall to one, flow from, follow from, gain, gain strength, germinate from, get ahead, go up, grow, grow from, grow out of, hang on, hinge on, increase, intensify, issue from, mature, mount, multiply, originate in, proceed from, proliferate, rise, run up, shoot up, snowball, spread, spring from, sprout from, stem from, strengthen, swell, turn on, wax, widen

• acculturation, Americanization, admission, adoption, affiliation, assimilation, citizenship by naturalization, citizenship papers, civility, civilization, complex, cultivation, cultural drift, culture, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture shock, culture trait, education, enculturation, enlightenment, ethos, folkways, key trait, mores, nationalization, naturalization, naturalized citizenship, papers, polish, refinement, socialization, society, trait, trait-complex

• accumulate, accouple, accrue, advance, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, appreciate, articulate, assemble, associate, backlog, balloon, band, batch, bloat, bond, boom, bracket, breed, bridge, bridge over, bring together, broaden, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cement, chain, clap together, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, corral, couple, cover, crescendo, cull, cumulate, develop, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, embrace, encompass, fund, gain, gain strength, garner, garner up, gather, gather in, gather into barns, gather together, get ahead, get in, get together, glean, glue, go up, group, grow, grub, grub up, heap, heap up, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, include, increase, intensify, join, juxtapose, keep, knot, lay away, lay by, lay down, lay in, lay together, lay up, league, link, lump together, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, merge, mobilize, mount, multiply, muster, pair, partner, pick, pick up, piece together, pile, pile up, pluck, proliferate, put away, put together, put up, raise, rake up, rally, rise, roll into one, roll up, round up, run up, save, save up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, secrete, shoot up, snowball, solder, span, splice, spread, squirrel, squirrel away, stick together, stock, stock up, stockpile, store, store up, strengthen, swell, take in, take up, tape, tie, treasure, treasure up, unify, unite, wax, weld, whip in, widen, yoke

• accumulation, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, acervation, addition, advance, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregate, aggregation, amassing, amassment, amplification, appreciation, ascent, assemblage, assembling, augmentation, backlog, ballooning, bank, bloating, boom, boost, bringing together, broadening, budget, buildup, chunk, collecting, collection, colluvies, commissariat, commissary, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, cornucopia, crescendo, cumulation, cumulus, development, dump, edema, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, flood, gain, gathering, gleaning, glomeration, gob, greatening, growth, gush, heap, hike, hoard, hunk, increase, increment, inflation, inventory, jump, larder, leap, lump, mass, material, materials, materiel, mounting, multiplication, munitions, pile, piling, plenitude, plenty, productiveness, proliferation, provisionment, provisions, raise, rations, repertoire, repertory, reserve, rick, rise, snowball, snowballing, spread, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supplies, supply on hand, surge, swelling, treasure, treasury, trove, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, wad, waxing, widening

• accuracy, absoluteness, attention to detail, attention to fact, care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, minuteness of detail, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness, perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, severity, specificity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter

• accurate, OK, absolute, all right, appreciative, attentive, authentic, careful, close, conscientious, correct, critical, dead right, delicate, demanding, dependable, detailed, differential, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, flawless, fussy, just, just right, letter-perfect, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, okay, on the mark, particular, perfect, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, proper, punctilious, punctual, refined, reliable, religious, right, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict, subtle, tactful, unerring

• accurately, bang, conscientiously, correctly, exactingly, exactly, exquisitely, faultlessly, flawlessly, fussily, in detail, just right, just so, meticulously, minutely, nicely, perfectly, precisely, properly, punctiliously, punctually, refinedly, right, rightly, rigorously, scrupulously, sharp, sic, smack-dab, so, spang, square, squarely, straight, strictly, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision

• accuse, accuse of, allege, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, article, attribute, blame, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, charge, charge with, cite, complain, complain against, condemn, criminate, criticize, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, denunciate, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, fulminate against, hang something on, impeach, imply, impugn, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, inveigh against, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, pin on, prefer charges, press charges, put on report, reflect upon, report, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, shake up, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit

• accused, arraigned, blamed, charged, cited, correspondent, defendant, denounced, impeached, implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, involved, libelee, prisoner, reproached, respondent, suspect, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire

• accustomed, accepted, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, adapted, adjusted, average, case-hardened, chronic, common, commonplace, conditioned, confirmed, conventional, current, customary, everyday, experienced, familiar, familiarized, habitual, habituated, hardened, household, inured, naturalized, normal, normative, ordinary, orientated, oriented, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, regular, regulation, routine, run-in, seasoned, set, standard, stock, traditional, trained, universal, used, used to, usual, vernacular, wont, wonted

• ace in the hole, advantage, backlog, bulge, cache, coign of vantage, drop, edge, flying start, head start, inside track, jump, nest egg, odds, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resource, running start, savings, sinking fund, something extra, something in reserve, start, stockpile, unexpended balance, upper hand, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, whip hand

• ace, A per se, I, air force, amigo, associate, atom, beaut, bedfellow, bedmate, best bower, bit, bomber pilot, bosom buddy, boss, bower, bowshot, brief span, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, cards, chamberfellow, champion, chief, chum, classmate, close quarters, close range, clubs, colleague, comate, combat pilot, commander, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, corker, crack, crackerjack, crony, crumb, dab, daisy, dandy, darb, dean, deck, deuce, diamonds, dilly, dole, dot, dram, dream, dribble, driblet, dummy, dwarf, earreach, earshot, face cards, farthing, fellow, fellow student, fighter pilot, first-rater, fleck, flush, flyboy, flyspeck, fragment, fugleman, full house, genius, girl friend, gobbet, good hand, gossip, grain, granule, great, groat, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hand, handful, head, hearts, higher-up, honey, humdinger, inch, iota, jack, joker, jot, killer-diller, king, knave, knockout, laureate, leader, left bower, little, little bit, little ways, lollapaloosa, lota, lulu, magician, mahatma, man of genius, master, master hand, mastermind, mate, messmate, military pilot, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, monad, mote, naval pilot, no other, none else, nonpareil, nothing else, nought beside, nutshell, observer, old crony, one, one and only, ounce, pack, pair, pal, paragon, pard, pardner, particle, partner, past master, peach, pebble, picture cards, pinch, pip, pippin, pistol shot, pittance, playfellow, playing cards, playmate, point, practiced hand, principal, prodigy, queen, roommate, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, ruler, sage, schoolfellow, schoolmate, scruple, senior, shipmate, short distance, short piece, short way, side partner, sidekick, singleton, skilled hand, smidgen, smitch, spades, span, speck, spitting distance, spoonful, spot, star, step, straight, suicide pilot, superior, superman, superstar, sweetheart, teammate, the greatest, the most, the nuts, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, top dog, topnotcher, trey, trick, trifling amount, trivia, trump, unit, virtuoso, whisker, whit, whiz, wizard, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

• acedia, accidia, aloofness, anger, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice, avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, carelessness, casualness, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, comatoseness, deadly sin, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency, detachment, disconsolateness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation, ennui, envy, fatigue, forlornness, gluttony, greed, gula, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insouciance, invidia, ira, jadedness, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, lust, luxuria, mindlessness, negligence, no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pride, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation, resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, superbia, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, weariness, withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrath

• aceldama, Belsen, DMZ, abattoir, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, butchery, combat area, combat zone, concentration camp, enemy line, field, field of battle, field of blood, firing line, front line, gas chamber, killing ground, landing beach, line, line of battle, seat of war, shambles, slaughterhouse, stockyard, the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, zone of communications

• acerbic, acerb, acerbate, acescent, acetose, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, amaroidal, asperous, astringent, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, burning, caustic, choleric, coarse, corroding, corrosive, crab, crabbed, cutting, dry, embittered, escharotic, green, hard, harsh, incisive, irritating, keen, mordacious, mordant, nose-tickling, penetrating, pickled, piercing, piquant, poignant, pungent, rancorous, rankled, resentful, resenting, rough, scathing, scorching, sec, severe, sharp, sore, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, splenetic, stabbing, stewing, stinging, tart, tartish, trenchant, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, vinegarish, vinegary, virulent, vitriolic, withering

• acerbity, acescency, acid, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, animosity, asperity, astringence, astringency, bile, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, causticness, choler, corrosiveness, crabbedness, cuttingness, dourness, dryness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, gnashing of teeth, greenness, grip, hard feelings, harshness, heartburning, hyperacidity, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pungency, rancor, rankling, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sour, sourishness, sourness, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, subacidity, surliness, tartishness, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, unripeness, unsweetness, vehemence, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, violence, virulence

• ache, ache for, ache to, aching, agonize, ail, angina, anguish, backache, be dying for, be dying to, be hurting for, bellyache, blanch, bleed, blench, blow, brood over, burn to, cephalalgia, chilblains, chill, chilliness, chilling, choose to, clamor for, cold creeps, cold shivers, colic, collywobbles, cramp, crave, creeps, cry for, cryopathy, cut, dearly love to, distress, dithers, dolor, duck bumps, earache, feel pain, feel the pangs, fret, frostbite, gape for, gnawing, go hard with, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grief, grieve, grimace, gripe, gripes, gut-ache, hanker, have a misery, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, hone for, hope for, horripilation, hunger, hurt, injury, itch for, itch to, kibe, languish for, lesion, like to, long, long for, long to, longing, love to, lust for, megrim, migraine, misery, mope, mourn, nasty blow, odontalgia, otalgia, pain, pang, pant for, passion, pine, pine away, pine for, pound, pounding, pyrosis, rack, shivering, shivers, shock, shoot, shrink, sick headache, sigh for, smart, smarting, sore, sore spot, soreness, sorrow, spasm, splitting headache, spoil for, sting, stitch, stomachache, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffer, suffer anguish, suffering, take on, tender spot, thirst for, thrill, throb, throbbing, throbbing pain, throes, tingle, toothache, twinge, twitch, want to, weary for, wince, wish for, wish to, wound, wrench, writhe, yearn, yearn for, yen for

• achieve, accomplish, acquire, act, actualize, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be productive, be received, blow in, bob up, bring about, bring into being, bring off, bring through, bring to fruition, bring to pass, carry off, carry out, cause, check in, clock in, come, come in, come to, come to hand, commit, compass, complete, conclude, conquer, consummate, crown with success, deal with, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, effect, effectuate, enact, engineer, execute, fetch, fetch up at, find, finish, fulfill, gain, get, get by, get in, get there, get to, go and do, hit, hit town, industrialize, inflict, knock off, make, make it, manage, mass-produce, obtain, overcome, overproduce, pay, perform, perpetrate, polish off, pop up, produce, pull in, pull off, punch in, put across, put away, put over, put through, reach, realize, render, ring in, roll in, score, secure, show up, sign in, succeed, succeed in, surmount, take and do, take care of, time in, turn the trick, turn up, up and do, volume-produce, win, work, work out, wreak

• achievement, accomplished fact, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, act, acta, action, administration, advent, adventure, alerion, animal charge, annulet, appearance, approach, argent, aristeia, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arrival, attainment, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, blow, bold stroke, bordure, bringing to fruition, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, carrying out, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coming, commission, completion, conduct, consummation, coronet, coup, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, dealings, deed, device, difference, differencing, discharge, dispatch, doing, doings, eagle, effectuation, effort, enactment, endeavor, enterprise, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, execution, exploit, fait accompli, falcon, feat, fess, fess point, field, file, finish, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fruition, fulfillment, fur, fusil, garland, gest, go, griffin, gules, gyron, hand, handiwork, handling, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heroic act, honor point, impalement, impaling, implementation, inescutcheon, job, label, lion, lozenge, management, maneuver, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, measure, metal, mission accomplished, motto, move, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, operation, or, ordinary, orle, overproduction, overt act, pale, paly, passage, pean, performance, perpetration, pheon, proceeding, production, productiveness, purpure, quarter, quartering, reaching, realization, res gestae, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, step, stroke, stunt, subordinary, success, tenne, thing, thing done, tincture, torse, tour de force, transaction, tressure, turn, undertaking, unicorn, vair, vert, victory, work, works, wreath, yale

• aching, Heimweh, ache, achy, afflictive, algetic, angina, backache, bellyache, blow, cephalalgia, chilblains, chill, chilliness, chilling, cold creeps, cold shivers, colic, collywobbles, cramp, creeps, cryopathy, cut, desiderium, distress, dithers, dolor, duck bumps, earache, fret, frostbite, gnawing, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grief, gripe, gripes, gut-ache, hankering, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, homesickness, honing, horripilation, hurt, hurtful, hurting, injury, kibe, languishing, languishment, lesion, longing, mal du pays, maladie du pays, megrim, migraine, nasty blow, nostalgia, nostomania, odontalgia, otalgia, pain, pang, passion, pining, pyrosis, shivering, shivers, shock, sick headache, sore, sore spot, spasm, splitting headache, stomachache, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffering, tender spot, throbbing pain, throes, toothache, wound, wrench, yearning, yen

• achromasia, achroma, achromatosis, albescence, albinism, albino, albinoism, blondness, canescence, chalkiness, creaminess, fairness, frostiness, glaucescence, glaucousness, grizzliness, hoariness, lactescence, leukoderma, lightness, milkiness, paleness, pearliness, silver, silveriness, snowiness, vitiligo, white, white race, whiteness, whitishness

• achromic, achromatic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

• acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, bebop, boogie-woogie, bop, country rock, dance music, dances, folk rock, hard rock, hot jazz, jazz, jive, mainstream jazz, musical suite, rag, ragtime, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, suite, suite of dances, swing, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music

• acid test, assay, blank determination, brouillon, criterion, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy, essay, feeling out, first draft, kiteflying, ordeal, probation, proof, rough draft, rough sketch, sounding out, standard, test, test case, touchstone, trial, try, verification

• acid, DET, DMT, Foamite, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acerbity, acetic, acetose, acetous, acetylsalicylic acid, acid, acidic, acidity, acidulant, acidulated, acidulent, acidulous, acidulousness, acrid, acrimonious, acrimony, actual cautery, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, amino acid, ammono acid, angry, animosity, anion, antacid, antidepressant, aqua fortis, aqua regia, arsenic acid, ascorbic acid, asperity, asperous, aspirin, astringent, ataractic, atom, automatic sprinkler, base, basic, battery acid, benzoic acid, bile, biochemical, biting, bitter, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, boric acid, brand, brand iron, branding iron, bread-and-butter pickle, burning, butyric acid, carbolic acid, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, carbonic acid, cation, caustic, causticity, cauter, cauterant, cauterizer, cautery, chemical, chemical element, chemicobiological, chemicoengineering, chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical, chemurgic, chloric acid, chlorous acid, chokecherry, choler, choleric, chromic acid, chromoisomer, citric acid, compound, copolymer, copolymeric, copolymerous, corroding, corrosive, crab apple, cutting, cyanic acid, deck gun, deluge set, diethyltryptamine, dill pickle, dimer, dimeric, dimerous, dimethyltryptamine, discontented, double-edged, driving, dry, edged, effective, electrocautery, electrochemical, element, elemental, elementary, embittered, escharotic, extinguisher, feeling evil, fierce, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, fluoric acid, foam, foam extinguisher, forceful, forcible, formic acid, gage, gall, ganja, gnashing of teeth, grass, green apple, gutsy, hallucinogen, hard feelings, harsh, hash, hashish, hay, heartburning, heavy chemicals, hemp, heteromerous, high polymer, homopolymer, hook-and-ladder, hot iron, hydracid, hydrochloric acid, hydrocyanic acid, hyperacid, hypochlorous acid, imperative, impressive, incisive, inorganic chemical, ion, irritating, isomer, isomerous, joint, kava, keen, lactic acid, ladder pipe, lemon, lignosulphonic acid, lime, lunar caustic, macrochemical, macromolecule, malic acid, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, metamer, metameric, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, molecule, monomer, monomerous, mordacious, mordant, morning glory seeds, moxa, muriatic acid, nervous, neutralizer, niacin, nicotinic acid, nonacid, nose-tickling, oil of vitriol, organic chemical, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, oxalic acid, oxyacid, pectic acid, penetrating, perboric acid, perchloric acid, peyote, phenol, phosphoric acid, photochemical, physicochemical, phytochemical, pickle, picric acid, piercing, piquant, poignant, polymer, polymeric, pot, potential cautery, powerful, prussic acid, pseudoisomer, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, pumper, punchy, pungent, radical, radiochemical, radium, rancor, rancorous, rankled, rankling, reagent, reefer, resentful, resenting, rigorous, roach, rough, salicylic acid, scathing, scorching, sensational, severe, sharp, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, slow burn, snorkel, soda, sore, soreness, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, spleen, splenetic, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, stabbing, stewing, stick, stinging, strident, striking, stringent, strong, subacid, subacidulous, sulfacid, sulfuric acid, super-pumper, tart, tea, telling, thermochemical, tranquilizer, trenchant, trimer, vehement, verjuice, vigorous, vinegar, violent, virulence, virulent, vital, vitriol, vitriolic, water, water cannon, weed, wet blanket, withering, yogurt

• acidhead, LSD user, addict, alcoholic, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, junkie, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pillhead, pothead, snowbird, speed freak, tripper, user

• acidify, acetify, acidulate, alkalify, alkalize, borate, carbonate, catalyze, chemical, chlorinate, electrolyze, ferment, homopolymerize, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, isomerize, nitrate, oxidize, pepsinate, peroxidize, phosphatize, polymerize, reduce, sour, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, turn sour, work

• acidity, acerbity, acescency, acid, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, animosity, anion, antacid, asperity, astringency, atom, base, bile, biochemical, bite, bitingness, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, cation, causticity, causticness, chemical, chemical element, choler, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, corrosiveness, cuttingness, dimer, dryness, edge, element, fierceness, gall, gnashing of teeth, greenness, grip, hard feelings, harshness, heartburning, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, hyperacidity, incisiveness, inorganic chemical, ion, isomer, keenness, macromolecule, metamer, molecule, monomer, mordacity, mordancy, neutralizer, nonacid, organic chemical, oxyacid, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, polymer, pseudoisomer, pungency, radical, rancor, rankling, reagent, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sour, sourishness, sourness, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, subacidity, sulfacid, tartishness, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, trimer, unripeness, unsweetness, vehemence, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, violence, virulence

• acidulous, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acetic, acetose, acetous, acid, acidic, acidulated, acidulent, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, burning, caustic, choleric, corroding, corrosive, cutting, double-edged, dry, edged, embittered, escharotic, fierce, harsh, hyperacid, incisive, keen, mordacious, mordant, penetrating, piercing, piquant, poignant, pungent, rancorous, rankled, resentful, resenting, rigorous, rough, scathing, scorching, severe, sharp, sore, splenetic, stabbing, stewing, stinging, strident, stringent, subacid, subacidulous, tart, trenchant, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering

• acknowledge, accept, account for, accredit with, accrete to, admit, admit everything, affirm, agree, agree provisionally, allege, allow, announce, answer, answer back, apply to, ascribe to, assent grudgingly, asseverate, assign to, attach to, attest, attribute to, aver, avouch, avow, bear the expense, bear witness, blame, blame for, blame on, bless, bring home to, certify, charge on, charge to, chip in, come back, come back at, come clean, concede, confess, connect with, consider, cop a plea, credit, credit with, declare, deem, defray, defray expenses, depone, depose, disclose, divulge, echo, express general agreement, fasten upon, father upon, finance, fix on, fix upon, flash back, foot the bill, fund, give acknowledgment, give answer, give credit, give evidence, give thanks, go Dutch, go along with, grant, hang on, hold, honor a bill, impute to, lay to, let on, make acknowledgments of, not oppose, offer thanks, open up, out with it, own, own up, pay for, pay the bill, pay the piper, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, plead guilty, point to, proclaim, publish, react, receive, recognize, redeem, reecho, refer to, rejoin, render credit, render thanks, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, return thanks, reveal, reverberate, riposte, saddle on, saddle with, say, say in reply, set down to, settle upon, shoot back, spill, spill it, spit it out, stand the costs, swear, talk back, tell, tell all, tell the truth, testify, thank, view, vouch, warrant, witness, yield

• acknowledged, accepted, admitted, affirmed, allowed, approved, authenticated, avowed, being done, certified, comme il faut, conceded, confessed, confirmed, conformable, conventional, correct, countersigned, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, endorsed, established, fixed, folk, formal, granted, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, notarized, of long standing, of the folk, oral, orthodox, prescriptive, professed, proper, ratified, received, recognized, right, rooted, sealed, seemly, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, underwritten, unwritten, validated, venerable, warranted, worshipful

• acknowledgment, abject apology, acceptance, acknowledgments, acquittance, admission, allowance, answer, answering, antiphon, apology, appreciation, avowal, back, back answer, back matter, back talk, backchat, bastard title, benediction, bibliography, billet, blurb, boost, breast-beating, buildup, business letter, by-line, canceled check, catch line, catchword, chit, citation, cognizance, colophon, comeback, commendation, communication, concession, confession, contents, contents page, contrition, copyright page, credit, credit line, crediting, declaration, dedication, discharge, dispatch, due, echo, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, epistle, errata, evasive reply, excuse, favor, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, good word, grace, half-title page, head, honorable mention, hymn, hype, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, leaf, letter, line, makeup, mea culpa, message, missive, note, owning, owning up, paean, page, penitence, plug, praise, prayer of thanks, preface, preliminaries, profession, promotion, puff, quittance, reaction, ready reply, receipt, receipt in full, recognition, recto, reference, regrets, rejoinder, release, repartee, replication, reply, repost, rescript, rescription, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retort, return, reverberation, reverso, right, riposte, rite of confession, running title, short answer, shrift, signature, snappy comeback, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving, title, title page, trademark, tribute, trim size, type page, unbosoming, verso, voucher, warrant, what is owing, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

• acme, Olympian heights, acme of perfection, aerial heights, all, apex, apogee, apotheosis, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, beau ideal, best type, blue ribbon, brow, cap, capstone, ceiling, championship, climax, cloud nine, command, consummation, control, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, cynosure, directorship, dizzy heights, dominion, edge, effectiveness, ego ideal, elevation, eminence, end, ether, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, first place, first prize, headship, heaven, heavens, hegemony, height, heights, hero, high noon, highest, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, ideal, imperium, influence, jurisdiction, kingship, last word, leadership, lift, limit, lordship, management, mastership, mastery, maximum, meridian, mirror, most, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, new high, no place higher, noon, nth degree, palms, paragon, paramountcy, peak, perfection, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, power, presidency, primacy, raise, record, ridge, rise, rising ground, rule, say, seventh heaven, shining example, sky, sovereignty, spire, steep, stratosphere, summit, supremacy, sway, the whole, tip, tip-top, top, top spot, ultimate, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, uprise, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, vantage ground, vantage point, vertex, very top, zenith

• acne, acne vulgaris, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, impetigo, itch, jungle rot, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lupus, lupus vulgaris, miliaria, pemphigus, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psora, ringworm, scabies, shingles, skin cancer, tetter

• acolyte, Bible clerk, Bible reader, acolytus, adjutant, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, almoner, anagnost, assistant, attendant, auxiliary, beadle, bedral, best man, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, deacon, deaconess, deputy, diaconus, doorkeeper, elder, elderman, executive officer, exorcist, exorcista, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, holy orders, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, lieutenant, major orders, minor orders, ostiarius, paranymph, paraprofessional, parish clerk, precentor, presbyter, priest, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, second, servant, sexton, shames, sideman, sidesman, subdeacon, subdiaconus, succentor, suisse, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, teaching elder, thurifer, verger, vergeress

• acoustic, audible, audile, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, hearing, hypersonic, otic, otological, otopathic, otoscopic, phonic, sonic, subsonic, supersonic, transonic, transsonic, ultrasonic

• acoustical, acoustic, audible, audile, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, hearing, hypersonic, otic, otological, otopathic, otoscopic, phonic, sonic, subsonic, supersonic, transonic, transsonic, ultrasonic

• acoustics, Newtonian physics, acoustical engineer, acoustician, aerophysics, applied physics, astrophysics, basic conductor physics, biophysics, chemical physics, cryogenics, crystallography, cytophysics, electron physics, electronics, electrophysics, geophysics, macrophysics, mathematical physics, mechanics, medicophysics, microphysics, natural philosophy, natural science, nuclear physics, optics, philosophy, phonics, physic, physical chemistry, physical science, physicochemistry, physicomathematics, physics, psychophysics, radiation physics, radioacoustics, radionics, solar physics, solid-state physics, statics, stereophysics, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, zoophysics

• acquaint, accustom, advertise, advertise of, advise, apprise, brief, bring word, clue, communicate, disclose, divulge, do the honors, enlighten, familiarize, fill in, give a knockdown, give an introduction, give notice, give the facts, give word, habituate, inform, instruct, introduce, leave word, let know, make acquainted, mention to, notify, post, present, quaint, report, reveal, send word, serve notice, speak, tell, verse, warn

• acquaintance, account, acquaintedness, advocate, alter ego, amigo, announcement, appreciation, apprehension, associate, awareness, backer, best friend, blue book, bosom friend, briefing, brother, bulletin, casual acquaintance, close acquaintance, close friend, colleague, communication, communique, companion, comrade, confidant, confidante, consciousness, corpus, crony, data, datum, directory, dispatch, enlightenment, evidence, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, factual information, familiar, familiarity, familiarization, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, friend, gen, general information, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, incidental information, info, information, inseparable friend, instruction, intelligence, intimacy, intimate, introduction, inwardness, ken, knockdown, know-how, knowing, knowledge, light, lover, mate, mention, message, neighbor, notice, notification, other self, partisan, pickup, practical knowledge, presentation, private knowledge, privity, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, ratio cognoscendi, release, report, repository, self-knowledge, sidelight, statement, supporter, sympathizer, technic, technics, technique, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, understanding, well-wisher, white book, white paper, word

• acquiesce, abide by, accede, accept, acclaim, accommodate, acquiesce in, adapt, adjust, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, assent, be agreeable, be agreeable to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to, be persuaded, be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, bow, buy, cheer, coincide, collaborate, come around, come over, come round, come to, comply, comply with, concur, consent, cooperate, face the music, fall in with, give the nod, go along with, hail, hold with, in toto, incline, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, lean, live with it, look kindly upon, nod, nod assent, not hesitate to, not resist, obey, plunge into, receive, reconcile, relent, resign, submit, subscribe, subscribe to, succumb, swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it, take kindly to, vote for, welcome, would as leave, would as lief, yes, yield assent

• acquiescence, OK, Quakerism, acceptance, acceptation, acception, accession, accommodation, accord, accordance, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, agreement in principle, alacrity, allegiance, amenability, approbation, approval, ardor, assent, assentation, assurance, assuredness, aye, belief, blessing, certainty, cheerful consent, complaisance, compliance, concurrence, confidence, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, connivance, consent, consistency, conventionality, cooperativeness, correspondence, credence, credit, credulity, deference, dependence, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness, endorsement, enthusiasm, faith, favorable disposition, favorableness, fealty, flexibility, forwardness, gameness, general agreement, goodwill, harmony, hearty assent, homage, hope, humbleness, humility, keeping, kneeling, line, loyalty, malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obedience, obediency, obeisance, observance, okay, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, permission, pliability, pliancy, promptitude, promptness, quietism, ratification, readiness, reception, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, reconcilement, reconciliation, reliance, reliance on, resignation, resignedness, responsiveness, right mood, sanction, service, servility, servitium, stock, store, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, suit and service, suit service, supineness, support, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, tractability, traditionalism, trust, uncomplainingness, ungrudgingness, uniformity, unloathness, unreluctance, warm assent, welcome, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, yielding, zeal, zealousness

• acquiescent, abject, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescing, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conceding, concessive, conformable, conforming, consentient, consenting, content, cooperative, devoted, disposed, docile, duteous, dutiful, eager, endorsing, enthusiastic, fain, faithful, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, flexible, forward, game, humble, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, minded, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nothing loath, obedient, other-directed, passive, permissive, plastic, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, resigned, responsive, sanctioning, servile, submissive, subservient, supine, tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, yielding, zealous

• acquire, accept, accumulate, achieve, add, admit, amass, annex, assume, bag, be responsible for, be seized of, bring down, bring in, bring on, bring upon, buy, capture, catch, catch up, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, clutch, collect, come by, come in for, come into, contract, corral, cumulate, derive, derive from, drag down, drain off, draw, draw down, draw from, draw off, earn, embrace, enter into possession, fall in with, fall into, gain, garner, get, get hold of, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, harvest, have, have coming in, hug, incur, invite, knock down, land, lay hands on, lay hold of, loot, make, nail, net, nip, nip up, obtain, palm, partake, pick up, pillage, pocket, possess, procure, pull down, purchase, reach, reap, receive, run, sack, score, secure, seize, snap up, snatch, steal, take, take by assault, take by storm, take hold of, take in, take on, take over, take possession, welcome, whip up, win

• acquisition, acceptance, accession, accomplishment, accomplishments, achievement, acquirement, acquiring, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, admission, admittance, assets, assumption, attainment, attainments, belongings, claiming, derivation, edification, education, enlightenment, finish, gain, getting, illumination, increment, instruction, learning, liberal education, means, object, obtaining, possession, possessions, procurement, property, purchase, receipt, receival, receiving, reception, sophistication, store of knowledge, taking, taking away, taking possession, theft

• acquisitive, a hog for, acquiring, all-devouring, ambitious for self, autistic, avaricious, avid, bottomless, careerist, coveting, covetous, demanding, desirous, devouring, egotistical, esurient, exacting, exigent, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish, individualistic, insatiable, insatiate, itchy, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, narcissistic, omnivorous, overgreedy, personalistic, piggish, possessive, prehensile, privatistic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious

• acquit, absolve, amnesty, bear, carry, clear, comport, conduct, convict, decontaminate, demean, deport, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, forgive, free, give absolution, go on, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, justify, let go, let off, liberate, nonpros, pardon, pass sentence, penalize, purge, quash the charge, quit, release, remit, set free, shrive, vindicate, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• acquittal, accordance, acquitment, acquittance, adherence, amortization, amortizement, binder, care, carrying out, cash, cash payment, clearance, compliance, condemnation, conformance, conformity, debt service, decision, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, execution, fulfillment, heed, heeding, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, judgment, keeping, landmark decision, liquidation, monthly payments, never-never, observance, observation, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, penalty, performance, practice, prepayment, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, respect, retirement, satisfaction, sentence, settlement, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, verdict, weekly payments

• acquitted, absolved, blotted, canceled, condoned, discharged, disregarded, exculpated, excused, exonerated, expended, forgiven, forgotten, hired, indulged, liquidated, overlooked, paid, paid in full, pardoned, postpaid, prepaid, receipted, redeemed, remitted, reprieved, salaried, settled, shriven, spared, spent, unavenged, uncondemned, unresented, unrevenged, waged, wiped away

• acreage, area, breadth, continuum, dimension, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, galactic space, infinite space, interstellar space, measure, nothingness, outer space, proportion, space, spatial extension, sphere, spread, superficial extension, surface, tract, void, volume

• acres, abundance, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, bags, barrels, bushel, chattels real, clay, clod, copiousness, countlessness, crust, demesne, dirt, domain, dry land, dust, earth, flood, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, honor, land, landed property, landholdings, lands, lithosphere, load, lot, lots, manor, marginal land, marl, mass, messuage, mold, mountain, much, multitude, numerousness, ocean, oceans, parcel, peck, plat, plenitude, plenty, plot, praedium, profusion, property, quadrat, quantities, quantity, real estate, real property, realty, region, regolith, sea, sod, soil, spate, subaerial deposit, subsoil, superabundance, superfluity, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, toft, tons, topsoil, volume, woodland, world, worlds

• acrid, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, acute, amaroidal, antagonistic, antipathetic, asperous, astringent, austere, belligerent, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, caustic, clashing, cloying, coarse, colliding, conflicting, corroding, corrosive, cutting, despiteful, double-edged, edged, escharotic, featheredged, fierce, fine, full of hate, hard, harsh, hateful, hostile, incisive, irritating, keen, keen-edged, knifelike, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mordacious, mordant, nose-tickling, oversweet, penetrating, piercing, piquant, poignant, pungent, quarrelsome, rancorous, razor-edged, repugnant, rigorous, rough, saccharine, scathing, scorching, set, set against, severe, sharp, sore, sour, spiteful, stabbing, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, trenchant, two-edged, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering

• acridity, acerbity, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridness, acrimony, acuity, acumination, acuteness, asperity, astringence, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitter pill, bitterness, causticity, causticness, corrosiveness, cuttingness, edge, fierceness, gall, gall and wormwood, grip, harshness, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, mucronation, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, pointedness, prickliness, pungency, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, sourness, spinosity, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, tartness, teeth, thorniness, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence

• acrimonious, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, burning, caustic, choleric, contentious, corroding, corrosive, cranky, cross, cutting, double-edged, edged, embittered, escharotic, fierce, harsh, incisive, indignant, irascible, irate, ireful, keen, mad, mordacious, mordant, penetrating, piercing, poignant, quarrelsome, rancorous, rankled, resentful, resenting, rigorous, rough, scathing, scorching, severe, sharp, sore, splenetic, stabbing, stewing, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, testy, trenchant, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering, wrathful, wrathy, wroth

• acrimony, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, animosity, animus, antipathy, asperity, astringency, bad blood, bile, bite, bitingness, bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, causticness, choler, corrosiveness, edge, feud, fierceness, gall, gnashing of teeth, grip, hard feelings, harshness, heartburning, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, incisiveness, keenness, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, mordancy, piercingness, poignancy, point, rancor, rankling, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spite, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, vehemence, vendetta, venom, violence, virulence, vitriol

• acrobat, aerialist, bareback rider, circus artist, clown, contortionist, equestrian director, equilibrist, flier, funambulist, gymnast, high wire artist, high-wire artist, juggler, lion tamer, palaestrian, pancratiast, ringmaster, ropewalker, slack-rope artist, snake charmer, sword swallower, tightrope walker, trapeze artist, tumbler, weightlifter

• acrobatics, Rugby, aerobatics, agonistics, association football, athletics, banking, bathing, chandelle, crabbing, dive, diving, fishtailing, glide, gymnastics, natation, nose dive, palaestra, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, rolling, rugger, sideslip, soccer, spiral, sports, stall, stunting, swimming, tactical maneuvers, track, track and field, tumbling, volplane, zoom

• acropolis, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, fasthold, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, peel, peel tower, pillbox, post, rath, safehold, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, ward

• across the board, across-the-board, all, all put together, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, altogether, as a body, as a whole, at large, blanket, bodily, collectively, compendious, complete, comprehensive, corporately, en bloc, en masse, encyclopedic, entirely, global, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in its entirety, in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, omnibus, on all counts, over-all, panoramic, sweeping, synoptic, total, totally, tout ensemble, universal, whole, wholly, without exception, without omission

• across, across the grain, against, astraddle, astride, athwart, athwartships, bendwise, beyond, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, confronting, contrariwise, contrawise, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, facing, fronting, horseback, in front of, in opposition to, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, on, on horseback, over against, overthwart, past, sideways, sidewise, slant, straddle, straddle-legged, straddleback, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, toward, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, versus

• acrostic, abuse of terms, acronym, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, avyayibhava, back formation, calembour, clipped word, compound, conjugate, construction, corruption, dvandva, dvigu, endocentric compound, equivocality, equivoque, exocentric compound, formation, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, paronym, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism, tatpurusha, word form, wordplay

• acrylic, Bakelite, Buna, Celluloid, Formica, Lucite, Mylar, PVC, Perspex, Plexiglas, Styrofoam, Teflon, acetate, acetate nitrate, alkyd, aminoplast, casein plastic, cellophane, cellulose acetate, cellulose ether, cellulose nitrate, cellulosic, coumarone-indene, epoxy, fluorocarbon plastic, furane, lignin, melamine, multiresin, neoprene, nitrate, nylon, phenolic urea, polyester, polymeric amide, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, resinoid, silicone resin, tetrafluoroethylene, urea, urea formaldehyde, vinyl

• act as, act, act a part, act out, ape, copy, do, do duty, enact, function, function as, impersonate, masquerade as, mime, mimic, officiate, pantomime, pass for, perform, perform as, personate, play, play a part, pose as, pretend to be, serve, take off, work as

• act for, advance, answer for, appear for, assist, back up, be instrumental, change places with, commission, crowd out, cut out, deputize, displace, double for, facilitate, fill in for, forward, front for, ghost, ghostwrite, go between, mediate, minister to, pinch-hit, pinch-hit for, promote, relieve, replace, represent, serve, speak for, spell, spell off, stand in for, subrogate, subserve, substitute for, succeed, supersede, supplant, swap places with, understudy, understudy for

• act like, affect, assume, borrow, chorus, copy, counterfeit, crib, ditto, do, do like, echo, fake, forge, go like, hoke, hoke up, imitate, make like, mirror, plagiarize, reecho, reflect, repeat, simulate

• act of God, certainty, fate, fatefulness, force majeure, indefeasibility, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, irrevocability, necessity, predetermination, relentlessness, sureness, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, unpreventability, unyieldingness, vis major

• act on, act upon, affect, approach, bear a hand, bear upon, concentrate on, condemn, decree, do something, do something about, doom, draw, draw on, exert influence, find, find against, find for, focus on, get cozy with, get with it, go, influence, lead on, lift a finger, lobby, lobby through, magnetize, make advances, make overtures, make up to, maneuver, operate on, order, pass judgment, pass sentence, proceed, proceed with, pronounce, pronounce judgment, pronounce on, pull strings, report, return a verdict, rule, sentence, strike a blow, take a hand, take action, take measures, take steps, treat, utter a judgment, wire-pull, work on

• act out, act, act a part, act as, ape, copy, create a role, depict, do, enact, impersonate, masquerade as, mime, mimic, pantomime, pass for, perform, personate, play, play a part, play a role, play opposite, portray, pose as, pretend to be, represent, support, sustain a part, take a part, take off

• act, accomplish, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achieve, achievement, acquit, act, act a part, act as, act as foil, act out, acta, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, acts, address, adventure, affect, affectation, afterpiece, air, ape, appear, assume, barnstorm, be effective, be in action, be productive, bear, bearing, behave, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bill, bit, blow, bluff, bring about, bring into being, bring to fruition, bylaw, canon, carriage, carry, cause, characterize, chaser, come out, comport, comportment, concurrent resolution, conduct, constitution, copy, counterfeit, coup, course, cover up, culture pattern, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, custom, dealings, decree, deed, demean, demeanor, deport, deportment, dictate, dictation, discourse, dissemble, dissimulate, divertimento, divertissement, do, doing, doings, edict, effectuate, effort, emote, emotionalize, employment, enact, enaction, enactment, endeavor, engineer, enterprise, epilogue, execute, exercise, exode, exodus, exploit, expository scene, fait accompli, fake, feat, feign, finale, folkway, form, formality, formula, formulary, four-flush, function, functioning, gammon, gest, gestures, get top billing, go, go on, goings-on, guise, hand, handiwork, have effect, have free play, have play, hoke act, impersonate, industrialize, institution, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, job, joint resolution, jus, law, lawmaking, legislation, legislature, let on, let on like, lex, maintien, make, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, maneuver, manner, manners, masquerade, masquerade as, mass-produce, measure, method, methodology, methods, mien, militate, mime, mimic, misbehave, modus vivendi, motion, motions, move, movements, moves, number, observable behavior, occupation, officiate, operate, operation, operations, ordinance, ordonnance, overproduce, overt act, pantomime, pass for, passage, passing, patter, pattern, percolate, perform, performance, perk, personate, play, play a part, play possum, play the lead, playact, poise, port, portray, pose, pose as, posture, practice, praxis, prescript, prescription, presence, pretend, pretend to be, procedure, proceed, proceeding, process, produce, production, profess, prologue, put on, quit, react, realize, register, regulation, represent, res gestae, resolution, routine, rubric, rule, ruling, run, scene, serve, sham, shtick, simulate, sketch, skit, social science, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, standing order, star, statute, steal the show, step, stooge, striptease, stroke, stunt, style, swing, tactics, take, take effect, take off, thing, thing done, tick, tone, tour de force, transaction, tread the boards, troupe, turn, undertaking, upstage, volume-produce, way, way of life, ways, work, working, workings, works

• acta, accomplished fact, accomplishment, account, account rendered, accounting, achievement, act, action, adventure, annual, blow, brief, bulletin, census report, coup, dealings, deed, doing, doings, effort, election returns, endeavor, enterprise, exploit, fait accompli, feat, gest, go, hand, handiwork, job, maneuver, measure, minutes, move, operation, overt act, passage, performance, proceeding, proceedings, production, report, res gestae, returns, statement, step, stroke, stunt, tally, the record, thing, thing done, tour de force, transaction, transactions, turn, undertaking, work, works, yearbook

• acting, act, action, active, activism, activity, ad interim, affectation, aping, appearance, at work, attitudinizing, behavior, behavioral, bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, deputative, deputy, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, doing, dumb show, embodiment, employment, enacting, enactment, exercise, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, function, functional, functioning, gag, gilt, gloss, going, going on, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, humbug, humbuggery, imitation, impersonation, imposture, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, incarnation, interim, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, movements, mummery, occupation, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operation, operational, operations, ostentation, outward show, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, play, playacting, playing, portrayal, pose, posing, posture, practice, practicing, praxis, pretense, pretension, pretext, pro tem, pro tempore, projection, representation, representative, running, seeming, semblance, serving, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, slapstick, speciousness, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, supply, swing, taking a role, varnish, window dressing, work, working, workings

• action, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, actions, activeness, activism, activity, acts, ad hoc measure, address, adventure, aerial combat, affectation, affray, agency, air, amphibious operations, anagnorisis, angle, answer, architectonics, architecture, argument, armored combat, artifice, atmosphere, automatic control, award, background, ball, battle, battle royal, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, big time, blow, brush, bullfight, business, carriage, cascade control, case, catastrophe, cause, cause in court, characterization, clash, clash of arms, clockworks, cockfight, color, combat, combined operations, complication, comportment, condemnation, conduct, conflict, consideration, continuity, contrivance, control action, countermove, coup, course of action, culture pattern, custom, dealings, decision, decree, deed, deliverance, demarche, demeanor, denouement, deportment, design, determination, development, device, diagnosis, dictum, direction, discharge, dodge, dogfight, doing, doings, doom, drive train, driving, dry run, effect, effectiveness, effectuation, effort, electronic control, embroilment, encounter, endeavor, energy, engagement, enterprise, episode, exchange of blows, execution, exercise, exertion, expedient, exploit, fable, fait accompli, falling action, feat, feedback control, fight, fighting, finding, fire fight, fluid operations, folkway, force, fray, fulfillment, fun, fun and games, function, functioning, funmaking, game, gear, gest, gestures, gimmick, go, goings-on, good time, great fun, ground combat, guise, hand, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, handiwork, handling, high old time, high time, house-to-house combat, improvisation, incident, influence, initiative, innards, job, judicial process, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last resort, last shift, laughs, lawsuit, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, line, litigation, liveliness, local color, logistics, lovely time, machinery, maintien, makeshift, management, maneuver, maneuvers, manipulation, manner, manners, means, measure, mechanism, method, methodology, methods, mien, militancy, military operations, minor operations, mission, modus vivendi, mood, motif, motion, motions, move, movement, movements, moves, mythos, naval combat, observable behavior, occupation, operancy, operation, operations, order, overseas operations, overt act, passage, passage of arms, pattern, performance, performing, peripeteia, picnic, pis aller, pitched battle, plan, play, pleasant time, plot, poise, political activism, port, pose, posture, power, power train, practice, praxis, precedent, presence, procedure, proceeding, proceedings, process, production, prognosis, pronouncement, prosecution, quarrel, reaction, recognition, remedy, res gestae, resolution, resort, resource, responsibility, rising action, robot control, ruling, rumble, running, running fight, scheme, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, secondary plot, sentence, servo control, servomechanism, shake-up, shift, shoving match, skirmish, slant, social science, solution, sortie, spirit, sport, staff work, stand-up fight, steering, step, stir, stopgap, story, stratagem, street fight, strength, stroke, stroke of policy, structure, struggle, stunt, style, subject, subplot, suit, suit at law, supervisory control, switch, tactic, tactics, tauromachy, temporary expedient, thematic development, theme, thing, thing done, tone, topic, tour de force, transaction, trick, trump, tug-of-war, turn, tussle, twist, undertaking, verdict, vigor, vim, vitality, war game, war plans, watchworks, way, way of life, ways, wheels, wheels within wheels, work, working, working hypothesis, working proposition, workings, works

• actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, applicable, authorized, black-market, bootleg, causidical, chargeable, competent, constitutional, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, felonious, flawed, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, irregular, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawless, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, licit, litigable, litigant, litigatory, litigious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, rightful, sanctioned, statutory, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, valid, within the law, wrongful

• activate, accelerate, actuate, animate, arouse, atomize, awaken, bombard, charge, cleave, contaminate, cross-bombard, energize, fission, galvanize, get going, impel, infect, initiate, irradiate, mobilize, motivate, move, nucleize, poison, prompt, radiumize, rally, reactivate, recharge, remilitarize, rouse, set going, set in motion, smash the atom, start, stimulate, stir, switch on, trigger, turn on, wake, waken

• active, acting, active voice, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, at work, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brisk, bubbly, bustling, busy, catty, chipper, compliant, conforming, conscientious, constant, devoted, devout, diligent, driving, duteous, dutiful, dynamic, ebullient, effective, effectual, effervescent, efficacious, efficient, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, expeditious, faithful, flexible, forceful, forcible, frisky, full, full of go, full of life, full of pep, functional, functioning, go-go, going, going on, graceful, hearty, hyperactive, impelling, impetuous, in exercise, in force, in hand, in motion, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, incisive, industrious, influential, intense, keen, kinetic, live, lively, living, loyal, lusty, medio-passive, mercurial, meticulous, mettlesome, middle, middle voice, militant, mindful, mobile, motile, motivational, motive, motor, moving, nimble, observant, occupied, on foot, on the fire, on the go, on the move, ongoing, operating, operational, operative, passive, passive voice, peppy, perky, pert, physical, potent, powerful, practicing, prompt, propellant, propelling, punctilious, punctual, quick, quicksilver, ready, reflexive, regardful, robust, running, rushing, scrupulous, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, strenuous, strong, supple, take-charge, take-over, transitional, traveling, trenchant, true, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, voice, wide-awake, working, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

• activism, act, acting, action, activeness, activity, behavior, business, doing, doings, employment, exercise, function, functioning, goings-on, militancy, motion, movement, movements, occupation, operation, operations, play, political activism, practice, praxis, proceedings, stir, swing, work, working, workings

• activist, ball of fire, beaver, big-time operator, bustler, busy bee, doer, eager beaver, enthusiast, go-getter, human dynamo, hustler, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, political activist, powerhouse, take-charge guy, wheeler-dealer, winner

• activity, act, acting, action, actions, activism, activities, acts, actuation, address, affair, affairs, affectation, air, animation, ardor, artificial radioactivity, bag, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, brio, briskness, business, bustle, campaign, carriage, cause, commerce, commitment, comportment, concern, concernment, conduct, contamination, crusade, culture pattern, curiage, custom, decontamination, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, drive, dynamics, elan, employ, employment, endeavor, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, exercise, exercising, exertion, faith, fallout, folkway, function, functioning, gestures, glow, going, goings-on, great cause, guise, gusto, half-life, impetuosity, impetus, interest, issue, job, joie de vivre, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, labor, life, lifework, liveliness, lookout, lustiness, maintien, manner, manners, mass movement, matter, method, methodology, methods, mettle, mien, mobilization, modus vivendi, motion, motions, motivation, move, movement, movements, moves, moving, natural radioactivity, nuclear radiation, observable behavior, occupation, operation, operations, pattern, perkiness, pertness, play, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, principle, procedure, proceeding, project, pursuit, radiant energy, radiation, radioactive radiation, radioactivity, radiocarbon dating, radiolucency, radiopacity, radiosensibility, radiosensitivity, reason for being, restlessness, robustness, running, saturation point, service, social science, specific activity, spirit, spiritedness, stir, stirring, style, swing, tactics, thing, tone, undertaking, unrest, velocity, venture, vigor, vim, vivacity, vocation, warmth, way, way of life, ways, work, working, workings, zest, zestfulness

• actor, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Roscius, actress, affecter, agent, antagonist, antihero, architect, author, bad guy, bamboozler, barnstormer, befuddler, beguiler, bit, bit part, cast, character, character actor, character man, character woman, charmer, child actor, counterfeiter, creator, cue, deceiver, deluder, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, doer, double-dealer, dramatizer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, fake, faker, fat part, feeder, foil, fooler, forger, fraud, gay deceiver, heavy, hero, heroine, histrio, histrion, hoaxer, hollow man, hypnotizer, impersonator, ingenue, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, juvenile, kidder, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, leg-puller, lines, mainstay, maker, man of straw, mannerist, matinee idol, medium, mesmerizer, mime, mimer, mimic, misleader, monologist, mover, mummer, operant, operative, operator, pantomime, pantomimist, paper tiger, part, partaker, participator, party, performer, perpetrator, person, personage, phony, piece, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, player, practical joker, practitioner, pretender, prime mover, producer, protagonist, protean actor, ragger, reciter, role, role-player, seducer, sharer, side, soubrette, spoofer, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, straight part, straw man, stroller, strolling player, subject, supporter, supporting character, supporting role, sustainer, tease, teaser, theatrical, thespian, title role, trouper, upholder, utility man, villain, walk-on, walking part, worker

• actress, Roscius, actor, antagonist, bad guy, barnstormer, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, feeder, foil, heavy, histrio, histrion, ingenue, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, playactor, player, protean actor, reciter, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain

• actual, absolute, admitting no question, as is, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, being, bona fide, categorically true, certain, certified, commonplace, concrete, confirmable, confirmed, contemporaneous, contemporary, corroborated, current, de facto, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determined, documentary, effectual, established, everyday, existent, existing, extant, factual, for real, fresh, genuine, hard, historical, honest-to-God, immanent, immediate, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, instant, irrefragable, irrefutable, latest, legitimate, manifest, material, modern, new, not in error, objective, objectively true, ordinary, phenomenal, physical, positive, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, provable, proved, real, realistic, realized, routine, running, self-evident, solid, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, tangible, testable, that be, that is, topical, true, true as gospel, true to life, truthful, unanswerable, unconfutable, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unimpeachable, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, usual, validated, veracious, veridical, verifiable, verified, veritable

• actuality, accomplished fact, achievement, actualization, attainment, authenticity, basis, being, confirmability, demonstratability, doubtlessness, embodiment, essence, eternal verities, externalization, fact, factuality, fait accompli, good sooth, grim reality, historical truth, historicity, incarnation, incontestability, incontrovertibility, indisputability, indubitability, indubitableness, irrefragability, irrefutability, materialization, not a dream, objective existence, provability, questionlessness, reality, sooth, substance, the true, trueness, truth, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unconfutability, undeniability, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, unimpeachability, unquestionability, unrefutability, veracity, verifiability, verity, very truth

• actually, absolutely, assuredly, certainly, clearly, de facto, decidedly, demonstrably, factually, for a certainty, for real, forsooth, genuinely, historically, in actuality, in all conscience, in effect, in fact, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, indubitably, literally, manifestly, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, patently, positively, quite, really, really-truly, sensibly, seriously, truly, unambiguously, undeniably, undoubtedly, unmistakably, verily, veritably, visibly, with truth, without doubt

• actuary, CA, CPA, abacist, accident insurance, accountant, accountant general, annuity, assurance, auditor, aviation insurance, bail bond, bank accountant, bank examiner, bond, bookkeeper, business life insurance, calculator, casualty insurance, certificate of insurance, certified public accountant, chartered accountant, clerk, comptroller, computer, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, court bond, credit insurance, credit life insurance, deductible, endowment insurance, estimator, family maintenance policy, fidelity bond, fidelity insurance, figurer, flood insurance, fraternal insurance, government insurance, health insurance, industrial life insurance, insurance, insurance agent, insurance broker, insurance company, insurance man, insurance policy, interinsurance, journalizer, liability insurance, license bond, limited payment insurance, major medical insurance, malpractice insurance, marine insurance, mutual company, ocean marine insurance, permit bond, policy, reckoner, recorder, registrar, robbery insurance, social security, statistician, stock company, term insurance, theft insurance, underwriter

• actuate, animate, arouse, circulate, compel, drive, drive on, energize, excite, force, forward, foster, galvanize, give an impetus, give momentum, goad, impel, incite, mobilize, motivate, move, move to action, nudge, power, promote, propel, provoke, push, put in motion, rouse, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set off, shove, spark, stimulate, stir, thrust, vitalize, whip on

• actuation, activity, animation, direction, dynamics, going, influence, inner-direction, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, mobilization, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, other-direction, prompting, restlessness, running, stimulation, stir, stirring, unrest, velocity

• acuity, acridity, acumen, acumination, acuteness, adroitness, agility, alertness, apperception, aptitude, aptness, astuteness, attention, attentiveness, braininess, brightness, brilliance, clear thinking, cleverness, cogency, dexterity, discernment, edge, esprit, farseeingness, farsightedness, flair, foresight, foresightedness, genius, giftedness, gifts, incisiveness, insight, keen-wittedness, keenness, longheadedness, longsightedness, mental alertness, mercurial mind, mucronation, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, pointedness, prickliness, promptitude, promptness, providence, punctuality, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, readiness, ready wit, sagaciousness, sagacity, savvy, sensibility, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, smarts, spinosity, sprightly wit, talent, thorniness, trenchancy, wakefulness

• acumen, acuity, acuteness, apperception, astuteness, cogency, critical discernment, discernment, discrimination, farseeingness, farsightedness, flair, foresight, foresightedness, incisiveness, insight, judgment, keenness, longheadedness, longsightedness, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, providence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sensibility, sharpness, shrewdness, trenchancy

• acute, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, absorbing, acanthoid, acanthous, accurate, acicular, acrid, active, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, afflictive, aggravated, aggressive, agonizing, alert, animated, apperceptive, appercipient, arch, argute, artful, astute, atrocious, aware, barbed, biting, brisk, cagey, canny, clamorous, clever, climacteric, cogent, compelling, cornuted, crafty, cramping, creaky, critical, crucial, cruel, crying, cunning, cusped, cuspidate, cute, cutting, dangerous, deceitful, deep, deep-felt, deep-laid, deepgoing, designing, desperate, diplomatic, dire, discerning, discriminating, distressing, double-edged, drastic, dynamic, ear-piercing, edged, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, excessive, excruciating, exigent, exorbitant, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, farseeing, farsighted, featheredged, feline, fierce, fine, forceful, forcible, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, foxy, full of pep, furious, gnawing, go-go, grave, great, griping, guileful, hard, harrowing, harsh, hazardous, heartfelt, hearty, high, high-pressure, high-priority, hispid, homefelt, horned, horny, howling, hurtful, hurting, immoderate, imperative, imperious, impetuous, incisive, indelible, ingenious, insidious, insightful, insistent, instant, intelligent, intemperate, intense, intensified, inventive, keen, keen-edged, keening, kinetic, knifelike, knowing, lively, living, longheaded, longsighted, lusty, menacing, meticulous, mettlesome, mucronate, narrow, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, observant, outrageous, painful, paroxysmal, pawky, peaked, peaky, penetrating, peppy, perceptive, percipient, perilous, perspicacious, perspicuous, pervading, piercing, piping, pivotal, poignant, pointed, politic, precarious, precise, pressing, prickly, probing, profound, pronged, provident, pungent, quick-witted, racking, razor-edged, ready, reedy, resourceful, rigorous, robust, rough, sagacious, scheming, screaky, screeching, screechy, sensitive, serious, serpentine, set, severe, shall, sharp, sharp-pointed, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, shifty, shooting, shrewd, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, slick, slippery, sly, smacking, smooth, snaky, snappy, sneaky, sophistical, spanking, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, spirited, splitting, squeaking, squeaky, stabbing, stealthy, stinging, strategic, strenuous, strong, subtile, subtle, sudden, supple, tactical, take-charge, take-over, tapered, tapering, thin, threatening, tined, tinny, toothed, tormenting, torturous, tough, treble, trenchant, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-edged, ululant, unbated, unconscionable, understanding, urgent, vehement, venomous, vibrant, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivacious, vivid, vulpine, wailing, wary, whining, whistling, wily, wise, zestful, zesty, zippy

• acutely, abundantly, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, conspicuously, copiously, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, generously, glaringly, impressively, incredibly, intensely, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, nobly, notably, particularly, peculiarly, pointedly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, remarkably, richly, signally, singularly, splendidly, strikingly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, unusually, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• ad infinitum, again and again, all over, at a stretch, at all points, at full length, at length, boundlessly, ceaselessly, connectedly, constantly, continually, continuously, cumulatively, cyclically, endlessly, eternally, everlastingly, every bit, every inch, every whit, extensively, forever, head and shoulders, heart and soul, illimitably, immeasurably, immensely, in all respects, in every respect, in extenso, in perpetuity, incalculably, incessantly, incomprehensibly, indestructibly, infinitely, innumerably, inside and out, interminably, lengthily, limitlessly, measurelessly, monotonously, neck deep, never-endingly, on a stretch, on all counts, on and on, on end, overall, perdurably, perennially, permanently, perpetually, repetitively, root and branch, round the clock, steadily, through and through, throughout, time without end, to infinity, to the brim, to the death, to the end, to the hilt, together, unbrokenly, unceasingly, unendingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unrelievedly, without a break, without cease, without end, without limit, without stopping, world without end, you name it

• ad lib, a beneplacito, a discretion, ad arbitrium, ad libitum, ad-libbing, al piacere, arrangement, at choice, at pleasure, at short notice, at sight, at will, be caught napping, be surprised, be taken unawares, be unprepared, by ear, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, cook up, dash off, disqualification, do offhand, extemporaneous, extemporaneously, extemporaneousness, extemporarily, extemporariness, extemporary, extempore, extemporization, extemporize, extemporized, fake, go off half-cocked, haphazard, hasty, have no plan, impromptu, improvisate, improvisation, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised, improvision, improviso, incapability, incompetence, jury-rig, jury-rigged, knock off, lack of preparation, lash up, make up, makeshift, measure, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, off the cuff, off the hip, off-the-cuff, offhand, on sight, out of hand, planlessness, play by ear, playing by ear, precipitate, pro tempore, rough-and-ready, scrap the plan, snap, stopgap, strike off, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, temporary arrangement, temporary measure, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unfitness, unfittedness, unforced, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unpreparedness, unprimed, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unready, unrehearsed, unstudied, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vamp, vulnerability, whip up, whomp up, wing it, without coercion

• adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, expression, gnome, golden saying, maxim, moral, mot, motto, oracle, phrase, pithy saying, precept, prescript, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, saw, saying, sentence, sententious expression, sloka, stock saying, sutra, teaching, text, verse, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom

• adagio, a poco, adagietto, allargando, allegretto, allegro, andante, andantino, calando, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, forte, fortissimo, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, lento, marcando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, scherzando, scherzo, spiccato, staccato, stretto

• adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, cast-iron, dour, firm, flintlike, flinty, frozen, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard-core, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inductile, inelastic, inexorable, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, intractable, intractile, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, irremovable, irresilient, lithic, marblelike, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obdurate, pat, petrified, petrogenic, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rock, rock-ribbed, slaty, standpat, stationary, steely, stern, stiff, stone, stubborn, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unextendible, unextensible, unflexible, ungiving, unlimber, unmalleable, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpliable, unpliant, unrelenting, unswayable, untractable, unyielding

• adapt, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, accustom, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, alter, ameliorate, arrange, assimilate, assimilate to, attune, be guided by, bend, better, break, break in, break up, capacitate, case harden, change, chime in with, comply, comply with, compose, condition, confirm, conform, convert, coordinate, correct, correspond, cut to, deform, denature, discipline, diversify, domesticate, domesticize, enable, equalize, equip, establish, fall in with, familiarize, fashion, fit, fix, follow, furnish, gear to, gentle, go by, habituate, harden, harmonize, homologate, homologize, housebreak, improve, instrument, instrumentate, inure, key to, make an adaptation, make conform, make plumb, make uniform, measure, meet, meliorate, melodize, mitigate, modify, modulate, mold, musicalize, mutate, naturalize, observe, orchestrate, orient, orient the map, orientate, overthrow, proportion, put in trim, put in tune, put to music, quadrate, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconcile, reconstruct, rectify, redesign, refit, reform, regulate, remake, remodel, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, right, ring the changes, rub off corners, score, season, set, set right, set to music, settle, shape, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, similarize, square, straighten, subvert, suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, tame, temper, train, transcribe, transpose, trim to, true, true up, tune, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, wont, work a change, worsen, write, yield

• adaptable, able to adapt, accessible, accommodative, acquiescent, adaptive, adjustable, all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, bendable, bending, bouncy, buoyant, changeable, checkered, complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, ductile, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, generally capable, giving, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable, mutable, nonuniform, obedient, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, other-directed, permutable, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, protean, proteiform, ready, receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, submissive, supple, susceptible, to hand, tractable, tractile, transient, transitory, two-handed, untroublesome, variable, versatile, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, yielding

• adaptation, Nachtmusik, about-face, absolute music, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaption, adjusting, adjustment, agreement, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, alignment, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, arrangement, assimilation, attunement, bearings, betterment, biological evolution, break, chamber music, chamber orchestra, change, change of heart, changeableness, coaptation, compliance, composition, conditioning, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, constructive change, continuity, conventionality, conversion, coordination, correspondence, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, descant, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disorientation, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, electronic music, enablement, equipment, etude, exercise, fit, fitting, flexibility, flip-flop, furnishing, genesis, gradual change, harmonization, harmony, horotely, improvement, incidental music, instrumental music, instrumentation, integration, intonation, invention, keeping, line, malleability, melioration, mitigation, modification, modifying, modulation, natural selection, nocturne, obedience, observance, ontogenesis, ontogeny, opus, orchestration, orientation, orthodoxy, overthrow, phrasing, phylogenesis, phylogeny, physiogenesis, physiogeny, piece, pliancy, preparation, production, program music, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, reconcilement, reconciliation, redesign, reform, reformation, regulation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ricercar, score, setting, shift, solution, sonata, sonatina, squaring, strictness, string orchestra, string quartet, study, sudden change, suiting, suspension, switch, synchronization, tachytely, theme and variations, timing, tone painting, total change, traditionalism, transcription, transition, trio, tuning, turn, turnabout, uniformity, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, work, worsening

• adapted, a propos, able, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accommodated to, according to, accustomed, ad rem, adapted to, adjusted, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, answerable to, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, by, capable, case-hardened, checked out, competent, conditioned, conformable, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, dovetailing, experienced, familiarized, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitting, geared, happy, hardened, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in uniformity with, inured, just right, likely, matched, meshing, naturalized, on the button, opportune, orientated, oriented, pat, per, proficient, proper to, qualified, relevant, right, run-in, seasonable, seasoned, sortable, suitable, suitable for, suited, suiting, tailored, to the point, to the purpose, trained, uniform with, used to, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, wont, wonted

• add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, develop, dilate, distend, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, fortify, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, lengthen, magnify, maximize, parlay, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, recruit, reinforce, strengthen, stretch, sufflate, supplement, swell, thicken, up, widen

• add up, add up to, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, be OK, be correct, be just right, be right, cast up, cipher up, come, come to, comprise, compute, contain, count up, detail, figure up, foot up, inventory, itemize, mount up to, number, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, reckon up to, recount, rehearse, relate, run into, run to, score up, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, tally, tally up, tot, tot up, tot up to, total, total up, tote, tote up, tote up to, unitize

• add, adjoin, affix, agglutinate, algebraize, amalgamate, annex, append, assimilate, attach, augment, blend, burden, calculate, cast, cipher, clutter, coalesce, combine, come together, complicate, compound, comprise, compute, conjoin, connect, consolidate, cumber, decorate, divide, dope out, embody, encompass, encumber, enlarge, estimate, extract roots, fasten, figure, figure in, figure out, flux, foot, fuse, glue on, hitch on, include, incorporate, increase, infix, integrate, interblend, interfuse, join, join with, lump together, make one, measure, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, multiply, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, put together, put with, reckon, reembody, roll into one, saddle, saddle with, score, shade into, slap on, solidify, subjoin, subtract, suffix, sum, summate, superadd, superimpose, superpose, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, tack on, tag, tag on, take account of, take on, tally, tot, total, tote, unify, unite, unite with, work out

• addendum, PS, Parthian shot, accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accompaniment, addenda, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, afterthought, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, auxiliary, back matter, chorus, coda, codicil, collateral, colophon, complement, conclusion, concomitant, consequence, contingency, contingent, continuance, continuation, corollary, double take, dying words, envoi, epilogue, extension, extra, extrapolation, fixture, follow-through, follow-up, happenstance, incidental, increase, increment, inessential, last words, mere chance, nonessential, not-self, offshoot, other, parting shot, pendant, peroration, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, refrain, reinforcement, rider, second thought, secondary, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, side effect, side issue, subscript, subsidiary, suffix, superaddition, supplement, swan song, tag, tailpiece, undergirding, unessential

• addict, LSD user, acidhead, address, adherent, adjust, admirer, aficionado, alcoholic, apply, aspirant, aspirer, bias, buff, bug, candidate, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, collector, coveter, cubehead, demon, desirer, devotee, dipsomaniac, direct, dispose, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, faddist, fan, fanatic, fancier, fiend, follower, freak, glue sniffer, great one for, groupie, habitual, habitue, hankerer, head, heavy smoker, hobbyist, hopeful, hophead, hound, hype, incline, infatuate, junkie, lover, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, nut, pillhead, pothead, predispose, pursuer, putterer, rhapsodist, snowbird, solicitant, speed freak, sucker for, suitor, supporter, take to, tripper, user, visionary, votary, wanter, wisher, yearner, zealot

• addiction, a habit, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, habituation, nicotine addiction, physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

• adding machine, Comptometer, abacus, adding, analog computer, arithmograph, arithmometer, calculating machine, calculator, cash register, computation, counter, difference engine, digital computer, electronic computer, listing machine, pari-mutuel machine, quipu, rule, slide rule, sliding scale, suan pan, tabulator

• addition, Anschluss, L, access, accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accompaniment, accord, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acquirement, acquisition, addenda, addendum, adding, additament, additionally, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advance, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregation, agreement, alliance, also, amalgamation, ampliation, amplification, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appreciation, approximation, appurtenance, appurtenant, as well, as well as, ascent, assemblage, assimilation, association, attachment, attainment, augment, augmentation, auxiliary, ballooning, besides, beyond, blend, blending, bloating, bond, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, cabal, cartel, centralization, closeness, coalescence, coalition, coda, collateral, combination, combine, combining, combo, coming by, complement, composition, concomitant, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, contiguity, contingency, contingent, continuation, contrariety, corollary, crescendo, dealings, deduction, deployment, development, differentiation, disjunction, dispersion, division, dragging down, earnings, ecumenism, edema, elevation, ell, embodiment, encompassment, enlargement, enosis, equation, evolution, expansion, extension, extra, extrapolation, fanning out, federalization, federation, filiation, fixture, flare, flood, furthermore, fusion, gain, gaining, getting, getting hold of, greatening, growth, gush, happenstance, hike, hiking, homology, hookup, in addition, in addition to, incidental, inclusion, incorporation, increase, increment, inessential, inflation, integration, intercourse, interpolation, intimacy, into the bargain, inversion, involution, joining, jump, junction, junta, league, leap, liaison, link, linkage, linking, magnification, making, marriage, meld, melding, mere chance, merger, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, moreover, mounting, multiplication, mutual attraction, nearness, nonessential, not-self, notation, obtainment, obtention, offshoot, other, over and above, package, package deal, pendant, practice, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, productiveness, proliferation, propinquity, proportion, proximity, putting together, raise, raising, rapport, reckoning, reduction, reinforcement, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, rider, rise, secondary, securement, side effect, side issue, similarity, snowballing, solidification, splay, spread, spreading, subsidiary, subtraction, summation, summing-up, superaddition, supplement, surge, swelling, sympathy, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tailpiece, tie, tie-in, tie-up, to boot, too, transformation, trover, tumescence, undergirding, unessential, unification, union, uniting, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, wedding, widening, wing, winning

• additional, accessory, accidental, accumulative, added, additive, additory, adscititious, adventitious, ancillary, another, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial, collateral, contingent, contributory, cumulative, else, extra, farther, fortuitous, fresh, further, incidental, inessential, more, new, nonessential, other, plus, renewed, secondary, spare, subsidiary, summational, summative, superadded, superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, ulterior, unessential

• additive, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accumulative, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additional, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, chain, coda, complement, component, concomitant, constituent, continuation, corollary, cumulative, elemental, extension, extrapolation, fixture, increase, increment, offshoot, pendant, reinforcement, side effect, side issue, summational, summative, supplement, tailpiece, undergirding

• addle, addle the wits, amaze, astound, baffle, ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bemuse, besot, bewilder, boggle, bother, buffalo, bug, cloud, confound, confuse, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, distract, disturb, dumbfound, embarrass, entangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, get, inebriate, intoxicate, keep in suspense, lick, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, mystify, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, stick, stump, throw, throw into confusion, throw off, unsettle, upset

• addled, addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted, blear-witted, blind drunk, buffaloed, cloudy, confounded, crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, floored, flustered, fogged, foggy, fou, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, in a dilemma, in a fog, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, licked, maudlin, mellow, merry, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, mystified, nappy, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, puzzleheaded, reeling, scramblebrained, shikker, sodden, sotted, stuck, stumped, thrown, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence

• addlepate, addlebrain, addlehead, beefhead, blockhead, blubberhead, blunderhead, bonehead, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodhead, clodpate, clodpoll, dolthead, dullhead, dumbhead, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, jolterhead, jughead, knucklehead, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, noodlehead, numskull, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead

• addlepated, addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, beclouded, befuddled, blear-witted, cloudy, dizzy, fogged, foggy, fuddlebrained, fuddled, hazy, in a fog, in a muddle, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, puzzleheaded, scramblebrained

• address book, Domesday Book, account book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, blankbook, blotter, calendar, cashbook, catalog, classified catalog, commonplace book, court calendar, daybook, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, notebook, pad, petty cashbook, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, scrapbook, scratch pad, spiral notebook, table, tablet, triptych, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

• address, Parthian shot, abiding place, ability, abode, accost, action, actions, activity, acts, address, adduce, adeptness, adroitness, advance, affability, affectation, affirmation, after-dinner speech, aim, air, airmanship, allegation, allege, allocution, angle for, animadvert, answer, apostrophe, apostrophize, appeal to, application, apply, apply to, approach, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, asking, assertion, associate, attend, averment, bearing, beau, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bend, bespeak, bid for, bid good day, bid good morning, billhead, bob, bow, bow to, bravura, brilliance, buckle down, buttonhole, call to, cantonment, canvass, capability, capacity, carriage, cast, chalk talk, chase, cite, cleverness, command, comment, commentate, competence, comportment, conduct, connect, consign, control, converse, coordination, couple, court, crack, craft, craftsmanship, crash pad, crib, culture pattern, cunning, curtsy, custom, debate, declamation, declaration, deftness, deliver an address, demand, demeanor, deportment, desire, destination, devote, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diatribe, dictum, diplomacy, direct, direction, discourse, dispatch, document, doing, doings, domicile, domus, dwelling, dwelling place, ease, efficiency, embrace, escort, esquire, eulogy, exchange greetings, exclamation, exemplify, exhortation, expertise, expressed desire, expression, facility, filibuster, finesse, fish for, folkway, follow, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, forward, funeral oration, gestures, give, give a talk, goings-on, grace, graciousness, greet, greeting, grip, guise, habitation, hail, halloo, hand-clasp, handiness, handshake, harangue, hello, horsemanship, hortatory address, how-do-you-do, hug, illustrate, impetration, inaugural, inaugural address, incline, indent, ingeniousness, ingenuity, interjection, invective, invoke, jeremiad, kiss, kiss hands, know-how, lay, lay siege to, lecture, letterhead, level, lift the hat, link, location, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, look for, maintien, make suit to, make up to, manner, manners, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, memorialize, mention, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, name and address, neck, nest, nod, nod to, note, observable behavior, observation, offer, oration, pad, pattern, pay addresses to, pay attention to, pay court to, pep talk, peroration, pet, petition, philippic, phrase, pitch, place, place to live, platform, point, poise, pop the question, port, pose, position, postal zone, posture, practical ability, practice, praxis, prefer, prelect, prepared speech, prepared text, presence, present, procedure, proceeding, proffer, proficiency, pronouncement, propose, prowess, public speech, pull the forelock, pursue, question, quickness, readiness, reading, recital, recitation, reflection, relate, remark, remit, request, requisition, residence, resource, resourcefulness, romance, roof, route, run after, rush, sales talk, salutation, salutatory, salutatory address, salute, savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy, say, say hello, saying, screed, seamanship, seat, seek, sentence, serenade, sermon, set, set speech, shake, shake hands, ship, skill, skillfulness, sleight, smile, smile of recognition, smooch, soapbox, social science, solicit, spark, speak, speak fair, speak to, speech, speechification, speechify, speeching, spoon, squire, statement, stump, style, subjoinder, submit, sue, sue for, suggest, superscribe, superscription, swain, sweetheart, tact, tactfulness, tactics, take aside, take the floor, take the stump, talk, talk to, talkathon, tax, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tender, thought, throw, timing, tirade, tone, touch the hat, train, transmit, turn, uncover, utterance, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, virtuosity, wave, way, way of life, ways, whereabouts, wish, wit, wizardry, woo, word, workmanship, zip code, zone

• addressee, accepter, acquirer, artist-in-residence, audience, auditor, beholder, communicator, consignee, correspondent, denizen, dweller, getter, habitant, hearer, holder, house detective, incumbent, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, letter writer, listener, live-in maid, locum tenens, looker, obtainer, occupant, occupier, payee, pen pal, procurer, receiver, recipient, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, sojourner, spectator, taker, tenant, trustee, viewer, writer

• adduction, affinity, allurement, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal force, drag, draw, gravitation, gravity, magnetism, mutual attraction, pull, pulling power, sympathy, traction, tug

• adept, Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, accomplished, adept in, adroit, anthroposophist, apt, artisan, artist, artistic, at home in, attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, cabalist, clean, clever, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, cunning, cute, dabster, daedal, dead shot, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, elder statesman, esoteric, excellent, experienced hand, expert, expert at, expert consultant, fancy, good, good at, goodish, graceful, graduate, handy, handy at, handy man, ingenious, journeyman, magisterial, mahatma, marksman, master, master of, masterful, masterly, mystagogue, mystic, neat, no mean, no slouch, old hand, past master, polished, politic, politician, pro, professional, professor, proficient, proficient in, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, savant, shark, sharp, skilled, skilled in, skillful, slick, some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, strong in, stylish, supernaturalist, tactful, technical adviser, technician, the compleat, the complete, theosophist, transcendentalist, up on, versed, versed in, virtuoso, well up on, well-done, well-versed, whiz, wizard, workmanlike, yogi, yogin, yogist

• adequate, OK, able, acceptable, admissible, all right, ample, average, barely sufficient, better than nothing, capable, comfortable, commensurate, common, competent, corresponding, decent, due, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, equal to, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fit, fitted, fitting, good, good enough, goodish, middling, minimal, minimum, moderate, no great shakes, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, okay, passable, plenty, plenty good enough, presentable, pretty good, productive, proficient, proper, proportionable, proportionate, qualified, respectable, satisfactory, satisfying, so so, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, suited, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable, up, up to, up to snuff, workmanlike

• adhere to, abide by, act up to, administer, attend to, be faithful to, bite, carry out, carry through, clasp, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, clip, clutch, complete, comply with, conform to, discharge, do justice to, effect, effectuate, embrace, enforce, execute, fill, fill out, follow, freeze to, fulfill, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hang on, hang on to, heed, hold, hold by, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, honor, hug, implement, keep, keep faith with, keep hold of, live up to, make, make good, make out, meet, never let go, nip, observe, promulgate, prosecute, put in force, put through, regard, render, respect, satisfy, stick to, transact

• adhere, agglomerate, bunch, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, cluster, coagulate, cohere, combine, come together, communicate, congeal, conglomerate, connect, converge, embrace, freeze to, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together, hold, hold on, hold together, hug, intercommunicate, join, knit, link, mass, meet, merge, persist, set, solidify, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, take hold of, unite

• adherence, OK, acceptance, accordance, accretion, acquittal, acquittance, adhesion, admiration, agglomeration, agglutination, allegiance, approbation, approval, attachment, blessing, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, care, carrying out, cling, clinging, clotting, clustering, coagulation, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, compaction, compliance, concretion, condensation, conformance, conformity, congealment, congelation, conglobation, conglomeration, consolidation, constancy, countenance, devotedness, devotion, discharge, endorsement, esteem, execution, faith, faithfulness, favor, favorable vote, fealty, fidelity, firmness, fulfillment, good faith, heed, heeding, homage, inseparability, junction, keeping, loyalty, nod, observance, observation, performance, practice, respect, sanction, satisfaction, seal of approval, set, setting, solidification, stamp of approval, staunchness, steadfastness, sticking, tie, troth, true blue, trueness, voice, vote, yea, yea vote

• adherent, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Comtist, Cynic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Fichtean, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Herbartian, Humist, Husserlian, Kantian, Kierkegaardian, Leibnizian, Marxist, Megarian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonist, Pyrrhonist, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Scholastic, Scotist, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian, Spinozist, Stoic, Thomist, Wittgensteinian, adhesive, agnostic, animist, appendage, applauder, appreciator, attendant, backer, barnacle, booster, bramble, brier, buff, bulldog, burr, cavaliere servente, cement, champion, claqueur, cohort, commender, cosmotheist, courtier, creature, dangler, decal, decalcomania, deist, dependent, dialectical materialist, disciple, dualist, dummy, eclectic, egoist, empiricist, encomiast, essentialist, eulogist, eulogizer, existentialist, extoller, fan, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, glue, goon, gunk, hanger-on, hedonist, heeler, henchman, homme de cour, humanist, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist, immaterialist, individualist, intuitionist, jackal, lackey, lauder, leech, limpet, logical empiricist, man, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, minion, molasses, monist, mucilage, myrmidon, mystic, naturalist, nominalist, ontologist, organic mechanist, organicist, panegyrist, panpsychist, pantheist, parasite, partisan, paste, physicist, plaster, plugger, positivist, pragmatist, praiser, prickle, promoter, psychist, public, puffer, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, rationalist, realist, remora, retainer, rooter, satellite, sectary, secular humanist, sensationalist, sensist, servant, shadow, skeptic, sticker, stooge, substantialist, successor, supporter, sycophant, syncretist, syrup, tagtail, tail, theist, thorn, thug, tout, touter, trainbearer, transcendentalist, upholder, utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, votary, ward heeler, zetetic

• adhesive tape, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, application, band, bandage, bandaging, batten, belt, binder, brace, cast, cataplasm, cellophane tape, cloth tape, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, dressing, elastic bandage, epithem, fascia, fillet, four-tailed bandage, friction tape, gauze, girdle, lath, ligula, ligule, lint, list, masking tape, plank, plaster, plaster cast, plastic tape, pledget, poultice, ribband, ribbon, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, shred, slat, sling, slip, spill, spline, splint, sponge, strake, strap, strip, strop, stupe, taenia, tampon, tape, tape measure, tapeline, tent, ticker tape, tourniquet, triangular bandage

• adhesive, adherent, affixation, amylaceous, annexation, attachment, barnacle, binding, birdlime, bond, bramble, brier, bulldog, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, burr, cement, clabbered, clammy, clasping, clingy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, decal, decalcomania, doughy, fastener, fastening, fish glue, gaumy, gelatinous, girding, glairy, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gum, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, hooking, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, knot, lashing, leech, library paste, ligation, lime, limpet, lute, mastic, molasses, mucilage, mucilaginous, obstinate, paste, pasty, persistent, plaster, prickle, putty, remora, ropy, rubber cement, sealing wax, self-adhesive, size, slabby, slimy, slithery, solder, splice, starchy, stickable, sticker, sticking, sticky, stodgy, stringy, stubborn, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, thorn, tieing, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous, wafer, zipping

• adieu, Godspeed, aloha, by, bye-bye, conge, doch-an-dorrach, farewell, good-bye, leave, leave-taking, parting, parting words, send-off, so long, stirrup cup, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory, valedictory address, viaticum

• adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, blubbery, bosomy, brawny, burly, buttery, butyraceous, buxom, chrismal, chrismatory, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fatty, fleshy, full, greasy, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lardaceous, lardy, lusty, meaty, mucoid, obese, oily, oleaginous, oleic, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rich, roly-poly, rotund, sebaceous, sleek, slick, slippery, smooth, soapy, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, suety, swollen, tallowy, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, well-fed

• adit, access, admission, admittance, air lock, approach, channel, conduit, corridor, course, ditch, duct, egress, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, exit, gangplank, gangway, hall, in, ingress, inlet, intake, means of access, opening, passage, passageway, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, vestibule, way, way in

• adjacent, abutting, adjoining, attached, bordering, close-by, closest, connected, connecting, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, handy, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, linked, nearby, nearest, neighbor, neighboring, next, successive, touching

• adjective, adjectival, adverb, adverbial, adversative conjunction, attributive, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative conjunction, correlative conjunction, disjunctive, disjunctive conjunction, exclamatory noun, form class, form word, function class, gerundive, interjection, part of speech, participle, particle, past participle, perfect participle, preposition, present participle, subordinating conjunction, verbal adjective

• adjoin, abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose, attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border, border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate, complicate, conjoin, connect, decorate, edge, encumber, end, enframe, frame, fringe, glue on, hem, hitch on, infix, join, join with, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lap, lie by, line, list, march, marge, margin, marginate, meet, neighbor, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, purfle, purl, put with, rim, run into, saddle with, set off, side, skirt, slap on, stand by, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, touch, trim, unite with, verge, verge upon

• adjoining, abutting, adjacent, bordering, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, neighbor, neighboring, next, next to, touching

• adjourn, break up, close, continue, curb, defer, delay, disband, discontinue, disperse, dissolve, drag out, extend, hang fire, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, lay aside, lay by, lay over, pigeonhole, postpone, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, reserve, restrain, rise, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, stand over, stave off, stay, stretch out, suspend, table, take a recess, terminate, waive

• adjudicate, account, adjudge, allow, arbitrate, be judicious, consider, count, deem, esteem, exercise judgment, express an opinion, form an opinion, hold, judge, pine, presume, referee, regard, suppose, think of, unique

• adjunct, accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accord, accretion, addendum, addition, adjunction, adornment, affairs, affiliation, affinity, affix, affixation, agglutination, aggrandizement, alliance, ally, ampliation, amplification, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendix, approximation, appurtenance, arrangement, aspect, assemblage, associate, association, attachment, attendant, augmentation, auxiliary, bedfellow, bond, broadening, brother, brother-in-arms, circumstance, closeness, coadjutor, cohort, collateral, colleague, color, color patterns, combination, companion, compatriot, compeer, component, comrade, concomitant, confederate, confrere, connectedness, connection, consociate, consort, constituent, contents, contiguity, contingency, contingent, contrariety, corollary, crescendo, crony, cross section, dealings, decor, decoration, deduction, deployment, detachment, detail, disjunction, dispersion, division, dole, elaboration, element, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, enlargement, expansion, extension, extra, factor, fanning out, feature, fellow, fellow member, filiation, fixings, fixture, flare, flourish, flower arrangement, fraction, furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture, happenstance, hiking, homology, illumination, incidental, increase, inessential, ingredient, installment, integrant, intercourse, intimacy, item, joining, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, magnification, makings, mere chance, mutual attraction, nearness, nonessential, not-self, ornament, ornamentation, other, parcel, part, part and parcel, particular, percentage, portion, prefixation, propinquity, proximity, quadrant, quarter, quota, raising, random sample, rapport, reinforcement, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, remainder, sample, sampling, secondary, section, sector, segment, share, similarity, specialty, splay, spread, spreading, subdivision, subgroup, subsidiary, subspecies, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation, sympathy, tie, tie-in, trim, trimming, unessential, union, uniting, upping, widening, window dressing