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| rabble | commoners, crowd, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, hoi polloi, horde, lower class, mass, masses, multitude, pack, proletariat, rank and file, riffraff, throng |
| impugn | Synonyms: assail, attack, blast, break, call into question, cast aspersions upon, cast doubt upon, come down on, contradict, contravene, cross, cut to shreds, deny, disaffirm, dispute, negate, negative, oppose, pin something on, put down, question, resist, run down, skin alive, smear, stick it to, throw doubt on, throw the book at, thumb nose at, trash, traverse, zap, zing |
| tortuous | bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, indirect, labyrinthine, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, winding, zigzag |
| alms | Synonyms: a hand, addition, alms , augmentation, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, charity, do one's part, donation, gifting, grant, handout, helping hand, improvement, increase, input, present, significant addition, subscription, supplement, write-off |
| satiate | Synonyms: cloy, content, feed to gills, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit Antonyms: deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting |
| profuse | Synonyms: abounding, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, crawling with, dime a dozen, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fulsome, galore, generous, immoderate, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, openhanded, opulent, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profusive, prolific, riotous, sumptuous, superfluous, swarming, teeming, thick with, unstinting Antonyms: lacking, sparse, wanting |
| demagogue | Synonyms: agitator, fanatic, firebrand, fomenter, haranger, hothead, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, instigator, politician, rabble-rouser, radical, rebel, revolutionary, soapbox orator, troublemaker |
| undermine | ynonyms: attenuate, blunt, clip one's wings, corrode, cripple, debilitate, dig, dig out, disable, eat away, enfeeble, erode, excavate, foil, frustrate, hollow out, hurt, impair, knock the bottom out of, mine, poke full of holes, ruin, sabotage, sandbag, sap, soften, subvert, threaten, thwart, torpedo, tunnel, undercut, wear, whittle away, wreck Antonyms: strengthen |
| wanton | Synonyms: abandoned, lax, libertine, outrageous, profligate, promiscuous, shameless, unprincipled, unscrupulous, wayward Antonyms: clean, decent, moral, righteous |
| invective | Synonyms: accusation, berating, blame, blasphemy, castigation, censure, condemnation, denunciation, diatribe, epithet, reproach, sarcasm, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation Antonyms: compliment, flattery, praise |
| sabatoge | Synonyms: demolition, destruction, disruption, impairment, injury, mischief, overthrow, subversion, subversiveness, treachery, treason, undermining, vandalism, wreckage, wrecking Antonyms: aiding, assistance, fix, help |
| incandescant | ynonyms: beaming, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, intense, lambent, lucent, luminous, phosphorescent, radiant, red-hot, refulgent, shining, white-hot: antonyms, dark, dim |
| vagary | fancy, fool notion, humor, idea, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy |
| rail | Synonyms: abuse, attack, bawl out, berate, blast, castigate, censure, chew out, complain, fulminate, fume, inveigh, jaw, objurate, rant, rate, revile, scold, thunder, tongue-lash, upbraid, vituperate, vociferate, whip Antonyms: compliment, praise |
| scant | Synonyms: bare, barren, deficient, exiguous, flimsy, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infertile, insubstantial, insufficient, little, mere, minimum, miserable, paltry, poor, puny, scanty*, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, spare, sparse, stingy, subtle, tenuous, thin, too little too late, unfinished, unfruitful, unproductive, wanting, weak |
| umbrage | Synonyms: anger, annoyance, chagrin, exasperation, fury, grudge, high dudgeon, huff, indignation, injury, ire, irking, irritation, miff, nettling, offense, pique, provoking, rage, resentment, sense of injury, vexation, wrath Antonyms: happiness, like, love, pleasure |
| curtail | Synonyms: abbreviate, boil down, chop, clip, contract, cramp, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, dock, downsize, get to meat, halt, lessen, lop, minify, pare down, put in nutshell, reduce, retrench, roll back, shorten, slash, trim, truncate Antonyms: extend, increase, lengthen, prolong |
| recalcitrant | ynonyms: contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, resisting, stubborn, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, unwilling, wayward, wild, willful, withstanding Antonyms: amenable, obedient, passive |
| glut | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, oversupply, plenitude, saturation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, too much* Antonyms: insufficiency, lack, need, want |
| proliferate | Synonyms: breed, burgeon, engender, escalate, expand, generate, grow rapidly, multiply, mushroom, procreate, propagate, reproduce, run riot, snowball Antonyms: decline, decrease, fall off |
| eccentric | Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kooky, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild Antonyms: boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
| curmudgeon | person who complains a lot Synonyms: bear*, bellyacher, bug*, crab, crank, crosspatch, faultfinder, griper, grouser, growler, grumbler, grump, kicker, malcontent, moaner, whiner |
| withhold | Synonyms: abstain, bridle, check, clam up, conceal, constrain, curb, deduct, deny, detain, disallow, dummy up, hide, hold, hold back, hold down, hold out, hold out on, inhibit, keep, keep secret, keep to oneself, keep under one's hat, keep under wraps, kill, refrain, refuse, repress, reserve, resist, restrain, retain, sit on, spike, stop oneself, suppress Antonyms: let go, release |
| piquant | Synonyms: highly-seasoned, interesting, lively, peppery, poignant, provocative, pungent, racy, savory, sharp, snappy, sparkling, spicy, spirited, stimulating, stinging, tangy, tart, well-flavored, with a kick, zestful, zesty Antonyms: bland, dull |
| mendicant | bankrupt, dependent, down-and-out, indigent, pauper, poor person, poverty-stricken person, street person, suppliant, vagrant |
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