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| Amenity | (n.) that which is pleasent or agreeable; (pl.) attractiveness features, customs, etc. Ant: unpleasentness, disagreeableness. |
| Aperture | (n.) an opening, gap, hole; orifice. Ant: closure, blockage, occlusion. |
| Dissidence | (n.) a difference of opinion; discontent. Syn: agreement, dissent, disaffection. Ant: agreement, harmony, concord. |
| Epicurean | (adj.) devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort, and ease; with discriminating tastes; (n.) a person with discriminating tastes. Syn: (adj.) hedonistic, sybaritic, discriminating. Ant: (adj.) ascetic, self-denying, abstemious. |
| Improvident | (adj.) not thrifty; failing to plan ahead. Syn: prodigal, spendthrift, extravagant. Ant: thrifty, frugal, economical, cautious. |
| Iniquity | (n.) wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act. Syn: evil, crime. Ant: probity, rectitude, uprightness. |
| Inviolable | (adj.) sacred; of such a character that it must not be broken, injured, or profaned. Syn: sacrosanct, unassailable. Ant: vulnerable, assailable. |
| Mutable | (adj.) open to or capable of change, fickle. Syn: changeable, variable. Ant: changeless, steadfast, constant. |
| Nascent | (adj.) just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence. Syn: budding, incipient, embryonic. Ant: dying, moribund, senescent. |
| Obeisance | (n.) a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference, homage. Syn: respect, honor. Ant: disrespect, irreverence, disregard. |
| Panegyric | (n.) formal or elaborate praise; a tribute. Syn: tribute, encomium, testimonial. Ant: diatribe, tirade, philippic. |
| Pillory | (n.) a device for publicly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public contempt or ridicule. Ant: (v.) praise, extol, laud, acclaim. |
| Pittance | (n.) a woefully meager allowance, wage, or portion. Syn: modicum, trifle. Ant: fortune. |
| Presage | (v.) to foreshadow or point to a future event; to predict; (n.) a warning or indication of the future. Syn: (v.) augur, portend, foretell. |
| Progeny | (n.) descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples. Syn: issue, posterity. Ant: ancestors, forebears, antecedents. |
| Promulgate | 9v.) to proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide. Syn: announce. Ant: withdraw, retract, abrogate, nullify. |
| Rectitude | (n.) uprightness, righteousness; corectness. Syn: probity, integrity. Ant: iniquity, heinousness. |
| Restive | (adj.) restless, hard to manage, balky. Syn; uneasy, fidgety, recalcitrant. Ant: serene, unruffled, docile. |
| Seraphic | (adj.) angelic, heavenly, celestial. Syn: cherubic. Ant: devilish, impish. |
| Subsist | (v.) to have existence; to remain alive, manage to make a living or maintain life; to persist or continue. Syn: last, survive, sustain. |
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