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| haven | Synonyms: anchorage, asylum, cover, covert, harbor, harborage, retreat, roadstead, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter |
| flay | Synonyms: excoriate, peel, scalp, skin |
| reluctant | Synonyms: afraid, averse, backward, calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, demurring, diffident, discouraged, disheartened, disinclined, grudging, hanging back, hesitant, hesitating, indisposed, involuntary, laggard, loath, opposed, queasy, recalcitrant, remiss, shy, slack, slow, squeamish, tardy, uncertain, uneager, wary Antonyms: anxious, eager, enthusiastic, ready, willing |
| plateau | Synonyms: elevation, highland, mesa, plain, stage, table, tableland, upland |
| covet | Synonyms: aspire to, begrudge, choose, crave, desiderate, envy, fancy, hanker for, have eye on, have hots for, itch for, long for, lust after, spoil for, thirst for, want, wish for, yearn for, yen for Antonyms: abjure, be generous, give, not want |
| porous | ynonyms: absorptive, penetrable, permeable, pervious, spongelike, spongy Antonyms: impermeable |
| harbinger | Synonyms: augury, forerunner, foretoken, herald, messenger, omen, portent, precursor, sign, signal |
| ogle | Synonyms: eagle eye, eye, eyeball, fix, focus, gape at, gawk, gaze, glare, goggle, lay eyes on, leer, look, look fixedly, make eyes at, peer, rivet, rubberneck, watch |
| impervious | Synonyms: closed to, hermetic, immune, impassable, impassive, impenetrable, impermeable, imperviable, inaccessible, invulnerable, resistant, sealed, tight, unaffected, unapproachable, unmoved, unpierceable, unreceptive, watertight Antonyms: exposed, open, penetrable, responsive, sensitive, vulnerable |
| promontory | Synonyms: bluff, cape, cheronese, foreland, jetty, jutty, peninsula, point, ridge |
| glower | Synonyms: glare, gloom, look, look daggers, lower, scowl, stare, sulk, watch Antonyms: grin, smile |
| imperative | Synonyms: acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, essential, exigent, immediate, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, no turning back, obligatory, pressing, urgent, vital Antonyms: inessential, optional, secondary, unnecessary, voluntary |
| facade | Synonyms: beard, bluff, color, disguise, exterior, face, fake, false colors, false front, front, frontage, guise, look, mask, phony, pretense, put-on, semblance, show, veneer, window dressing Antonyms: character, personality |
| provoke | Synonyms: abet, abrade, affront, aggravate, anger, annoy, bother, bug*, chafe, enrage, exasperate, exercise, foment, fret, gall*, get on one's nerves, get under one's skin, get*, grate, hit where one lives, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, insult, irk, irritate, madden, make blood boil, make waves, nag, offend, perturb, pique, put out, raise, rile, roil, ruffle, set on, set*, try one's patience, upset, vex, whip up, work into lather, work up Antonyms: delight, make happy, please |
| abrasive | Synonyms: annoying, biting, caustic, cutting, galling, hard to take, hateful, hurtful, nasty, rough, rubbing the wrong way, sharp, spiky, unpleasant Antonyms: likeable, pleasant, pleasing |
| fugitive | Synonyms: avoiding, brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant, erratic, escaping, evading, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, flying*, fugacious, hot*, impermanent, lamster, momentary, moving, on the lam, passing, planetary, running away, short*, short-lived, temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering, wanted Antonyms: confronting, facing, permanent |
| engender | Synonyms: arouse, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, lead to, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up Antonyms: destroy, finish, halt, kill, stop |
| plane | Synonyms: even, flat, flush, plain, planate, regular, smooth, uniform Antonyms: upright, vertical |
| vestige | Synonyms: evidence, glimmer, hint, memento, print, relic, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, scrap, shadow, suspicion, token, trace, track |
| abhor | Synonyms: abominate, be allergic to, be down on, be grossed out by, despise, detest, hate, have no use for, loathe, scorn Antonyms: admire, adore, approve, cherish, desire, enjoy, like, love, relish |
| singular | Synonyms: atypical, avant-garde, bizarre, breaking new ground, conspicuous, cool*, curious, eccentric, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary, loner, noteworthy, original, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outstanding, peculiar, prodigious, puzzling, queer, rare, remarkable, special, strange, uncommon, unimaginable, unordinary, unparalleled, unprecedented, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted, weird Antonyms: normal, ordinary, regular, usual |
| option | Synonyms: advantage, benefit, choice, claim, dibs, dilemma, discretion, druthers, election, flipside, franchise, free will, grant, license, opportunity, other side of coin, pickup, preference, prerogative, privilege, right, selection, take it or leave it |
| sear | Synonyms: blight, brand, brown, burn up, cauterize, cook, dehydrate, desiccate, dry out, dry up, exsiccate, harden, parch, scorch, seal, shrivel, sizzle, tan, toast, wilt, wither Antonyms: freeze |
| dubious | Synonyms: arguable, chancy, debatable, diffident, disputable, dubitable, equivocal, far-fetched, fishy, fly-by-night, hesitant, iffy, improbable, indecisive, moot, mootable, open, perplexed, problematic, questionable, reluctant, shady, skeptical, suspect, suspicious, touch and go, trustless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, unlikely, unreliable, unsure, untrustworthy, untrusty, wavering Antonyms: certain, definite, doubtless, positive, reliable, sure, trustworthy, trusty, undoubtful |
| stricture | Synonyms: admonishment, admonition, blame, castigation, condemnation, disapproval, dressing down, objection, obloquy, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, stricture Antonyms: approval, compliment, encouragement, endorsement, praise, ratification, recommendation, sanction |
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