Tuesday, 5 May 2015

SYNONYM IN ENGLISH

A synonym is a word or phrase that means the same or nearly the same as another. Here is a list of synonyms, arranged alphbetically, that can help you build your vocabulary and add variety to your writing.
A
  • Abandon, desert, forsake.
  • Abase, debase, degrade, humble, humiliate, disgrace.
  • Abettor, accessory, accomplice, confederate, conspirator.
  • Abolish, repeal, rescind, revoke, abrogate, annul, nullify, cancel.
  • Acknowledge, admit, confess, own, avow.
  • Acquit, exculpate, exonerate, absolve>.
  • Active, agile, nimble, brisk, sprightly, spry, bustling.
  • Advise, counsel, admonish, caution, warn.
  • Affecting, moving, touching, pathetic.
  • Affront, insult, indignity.
  • Afraid, fearful, frightened, alarmed, scared, aghast, terrified, timid,
  • Agitate, abash, mortify, chagrin, humiliate.
  • Agnostic, skeptic, infidel, unbeliever, disbeliever.
  • Allay, alleviate, mitigate, assuage, mollify, relieve.
  • Allow, permit, suffer, tolerate.
  • Amuse, entertain, divert.
  • Announce, proclaim, promulgate, report, advertise, publish, bruit, blazon, trumpet, herald.
  • Answer, reply, response, rejoinder, retort, repartee.
  • Antipathy, aversion, repugnance, disgust, loathing.
  • Artifice, ruse, trick, dodge, maneuver, wile, stratagem, subterfuge, finesse.
  • Ascend, mount, climb, scale.
  • Ascribe, attribute, impute.
  • Ask, inquire, question, interrogate, interpolate, query, quiz, catechize, request, beg, solicit, entreat, beseech, crave, implore.
  • Assault, onslaught, brawl, melee, tournament, battle, conflict, strife.
  • Asseverate, allege, assert, avouch, avow, maintain, claim, depose, augur, prognosticate.
  • Associate, colleague, partner, helper, collaborator, coadjutor, companion, helpmate, mate, teammate, comrade, chum, crony, consort, accomplice, confederate.
  • Attach, affix, annex, append, subjoin.
  • Attack, assail, assault, invade, beset, besiege, bombard, cannonade, storm.
  • Awkward, clumsy, ungainly, gawky, lanky.
B
  • Begin, commence, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, start, found.
  • Belief, faith, persuasion, conviction, tenet, creed.
  • Belittle, decry, depreciate, disparage.
  • Benevolent, charitable, gracious, humane, sympathetic.
  • Bind, secure, fetter, shackle.
  • Bit, jot, mite, particle, grain, atom, speck, mote, whit, iota, tittle, scintilla.
  • Bite, nibble, gnaw, chew, masticate, champ.
  • Blemish, stain, discoloration, speck, mark, smudge, flaw, defect, blot.
  • Bluff, blunt, outspoken, downright, brusque, curt, crusty.
  • Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade.
  • Body, corpse, remains, relics, carcass, cadaver, corpus.
  • Bombastic, sophomoric, turgid, tumid, grandiose, grandiloquent, magniloquent.
  • Boorish, churlish, loutish, clownish, rustic, ill-bred.
  • Booty, plunder, loot, spoil.
  • Break, crack, fracture, sever, rend, burst, smash, shatter, shiver.
  • Brittle, frangible, friable, fragile, crisp.
  • Building, edifice, structure, house.
  • Burly, pudgy, chubby.
  • Burn, scorch, singe, sear, parch, char, incinerate, cremate.
  • Busy, industrious, diligent, assiduous, sedulous.
C
  • Call, clamor, roar, scream, shout, shriek, vociferate, yell, halloo, whoop.
  • Calm, still, motionless, tranquil, serene, placid.
  • Care, concern, solicitude, anxiety.
  • Careful, cautious, wary, circumspect, canny..
  • Celebrate, commemorate, observe.
  • Charm, amulet, talisman.
  • Charm, enchant, fascinate, captivate, enrapture, bewitch, infatuate, enamor.
  • Cheat, defraud, swindle, dupe.
  • Chirrup, trill, pipe, quaver, peep, cheep, twitter.
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  • Choke, strangle, suffocate, stifle, throttle.
  • Choose, pick, select, cull, elect.
  • Clash, collision, contest, skirmish, encounter, brush, bout, set-to.
  • Cleft, chasm, fissure, gap, opening, interstice, burrow, crater, eyelet.
  • Coax, wheedle, cajole, tweedle, persuade, inveigle.
  • Color, hue, shade, tint, tinge, tincture.
  • Combine, unite, consolidate, merge, amalgamate, weld, incorporate, confederate.
  • Comfort, console, solace.
  • Complain, grumble, growl, murmur, repine, whine, croak.
  • Complaint, disorder, distemper, infirmity, malady.
  • Concise, terse, succinct, compendious, compact, sententious, pithy.
  • Condescend, deign, vouchsafe.
  • Confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify.
  • Confirmed, habitual, inveterate, chronic.
  • Connect, join, link, couple, attach, unite.
  • Consternation, panic, terror, horror, misgiving, anxiety, scare, tremor, coruscate.
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  • Continual, continuous, unceasing, incessant, endless, uninterrupted, unremitting, constant, perpetual, perennial.
  • Contract, agreement, bargain, compact, covenant, stipulation.
  • Copy, duplicate, counterpart, likeness, reproduction, replica, facsimile.
  • Corrupt, depraved, perverted, vitiated.
  • Costly, expensive, dear.
  • Coterie, clique, cabal, circle, set, faction, party.
  • Courage, bravery, resolution, dauntlessness, gallantry, boldness,
  • Critical, judicial, impartial, carping, caviling, captious, censorious.
  • Crooked, awry, askew.
  • Cross, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, irritable, irascible, angry.
  • Crowd, throng, horde, host, mass, multitude, press, jam, concourse.
  • Cruel, brutal, ferocious, fierce, savage, barbarous, truculent,
  • Crusty, cynical, misanthropic, saturnine, splenetic.
  • Cry, weep, sob, snivel, whimper, blubber, bawl, squall, howl, wail>.
  • Curious, inquisitive, prying, meddlesome.
  • Cut, cleave, hack, haggle, notch, slash, gash, split, chop, hew, lop.
D
  • Dainty, delicate, exquisite, choice, rare.
  • Danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, risk.
  • Darken, obscure, bedim, obfuscate.
  • Dead, lifeless, inanimate, deceased, defunct, extinct.
  • Deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal.
  • Death, decease, demise.
  • Decay, decompose, putrefy, rot, spoil.
  • Deceit, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, chicanery, guile, treachery.
  • Deceptive, deceitful, misleading, fallacious, fraudulent.
  • Decorate, adorn, ornament, embellish, deck, bedeck, garnish, bedizen, beautify.
  • Decorous, demure, sedate, sober, staid, prim, proper.
  • Deface, disfigure, mar, mutilate.
  • Defeat, subdue, conquer, overcome, vanquish, subjugate, suppress.
  • Defect, fault, imperfection, disfigurement, blemish, flaw.
  • Delay, defer, postpone, procrastinate.
  • Demoralize, deprave, debase, corrupt, vitiate.
  • Deny, contravene, controvert, refute, confute.
  • Deportment, demeanor, bearing, port, mien.
  • Deprive, divest, dispossess, strip, despoil.
  • Despise, contemn, scorn, disdain.
  • Despondency, despair, desperation.
  • Destroy, demolish, raze, annihilate, exterminate, eradicate, extirpate.
  • Detach, separate, sunder, sever, disconnect, disjoin, disunite.
  • Determined, persistent, dogged.
  • Devout, religious, pious, godly, saintly.
  • Die, expire, perish, decease, succumb.
  • Difficulty, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, encumbrance, handicap.
  • Difficulty, predicament, perplexity, plight, quandary, dilemma, strait.
  • Dip, douse, duck, plunge, immerge, immerse, submerge, sink, dive.
  • Dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, squalid.
  • Discernment, perception, penetration, insight, acumen.
  • Disease, sickness, illness, indisposition, ailment, affection.
  • Disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, disreputable, ignominious,
  • Disgusting, sickening, repulsive, revolting, loathsome, repugnant, abhorrent, noisome, fulsome.
  • Dishonor, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, opprobrium.
  • Disloyal, false, unfaithful, faithless, traitorous, treasonable.
  • Dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter.
  • Dissatisfied, discontented, displeased, malcontent, disgruntled.
  • Divide, distribute, apportion, allot, allocate, partition.
  • Do, perform, execute, accomplish, achieve, effect.
  • Doctrine, dogma, tenet, precept.
  • Dream, reverie, vision, fantasy.
  • Dress, clothes, clothing, garments, apparel, raiment, habiliments.
  • Drink, imbibe, sip, sup, swallow, quaff, tipple, tope, guzzle.
  • Drip, dribble, trickle.
  • Drunk, drunken, intoxicated, inebriated.
  • Dry, arid, parched, desiccated.
E
  • Early, primitive, primeval, primordial, primal, pristine, aboriginal.
  • Eat, bolt, gulp, gorge, devour.
  • Element, component, constituent, ingredient, share, lot, allotment.
  • Elicit, extract, exact, extort.
  • Embarrass, disconcert, discompose, discomfit, confuse, confound.
  • Enclose, surround, encircle, circumscribe, encompass.
  • Encroach, infringe, entrench, trench, intrude, invade, trespass.
  • Encumber, forestall, suppress, repress, prevent.
  • End, conclude, terminate, finish, discontinue, close.
  • Enemy, foe, adversary, opponent, antagonist, rival.
  • Enough, adequate, sufficient.
  • Entice, inveigle, allure, lure, decoy, seduce.
  • Erase, expunge, cancel, efface, obliterate.
  • Error, mistake, blunder, slip.
  • Estimate, value, appreciate.
  • Eternal, everlasting, endless, deathless, imperishable, immortal.
  • Examination, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, inspection, scrutiny, research, review, audit, inquest, autopsy.
  • Example, sample, specimen, instance.
  • Exceed, excel, surpass, transcend, outdo.
  • Excuse, pardon, forgive, condone.
  • Expand, dilate, distend, inflate.
  • Expel, banish, exile, proscribe, ostracize.
  • Experiment, trial, test.
  • Explain, expound, interpret, elucidate.
  • Explicit, exact, precise, definite. 
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    F
  • Face, countenance, features, visage, physiognomy.
  • Faculty, gift, endowment, aptitude, attribute, talent, predilection, bent.
  • Failing, shortcoming, defect, fault, foible, infirmity.
  • Fame, honor, renown, glory, distinction, reputation, repute, celebrity.
  • Famous, renowned, celebrated, noted, distinguished, eminent, illustrious.
  • Fashion, mode, style, vogue, rage, fad.
  • Fast, rapid, swift, quick, fleet, speedy, hasty, celeritous, expeditious, instantaneous.
  • Fasten, tie, hitch, moor, tether.
  • Fat, fleshy, stout, plump, buxom, corpulent, obese, portly, pursy.
  • Fate, destiny, lot, doom.
  • Fawn, truckle, cringe, crouch.
  • Fear, dread, fright, apprehension, affright, alarm, dismay, timidity,
  • Feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate, counterfeit, affect, assume.
  • Feminine, female, womanly, womanlike, womanish, effeminate,
  • Fertile, fecund, fruitful, prolific.
  • Fiendish, devilish, diabolical, demoniacal, demonic, satanic.
  • Fight, combat, struggle, scuffle, fray, affray, attack, engagement,
  • Financial, monetary, pecuniary, fiscal.
  • Fit, suitable, appropriate, proper.
  • Flame, blaze, flare, glare, glow.
  • Flat, level, even, plane, smooth, horizontal.
  • Flatter, blandish, beguile, compliment, praise.
  • Flee, abscond, decamp.
  • Fleeting, transient, transitory, ephemeral, evanescent.
  • Flexible, pliable, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lissome.
  • Flit, flutter, flicker, hover.
  • Flock, herd, bevy, covey, drove, pack, brood, litter, school.
  • Flog, maul, drub, switch, spank, bastinado.
  • Flow, pour, stream, gush, spout.
  • Follow, pursue, chase.
  • Follower, adherent, disciple, partisan, henchman.
  • Fond, loving, doting, devoted, amorous, enamored.
  • Force, compulsion, coercion, constraint, restraint.
  • Force, strength, power, energy, vigor, might, potency, cogency, efficacy.
  • Foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, presage, forebode, portend.
  • Frank, candid, open, artless, guileless, ingenuous, unsophisticated.
  • Free, liberate, emancipate, manumit, release, disengage, disentangle, disembarrass, disencumber, extricate.
  • Freshen, refresh, revive, renovate, renew.
  • Friendly, amicable, companionable, hearty, cordial, neighborly, sociable.
  • Frighten, affright, alarm, terrify, terrorize, dismay, appall, daunt, scare.
  • Frolicsome, merry, jolly, sportive, jovial, jocular, jocose, jocund.
  • Frown, scowl, glower, lower.
  • Frugal, sparing, saving, economical, chary, thrifty, provident, prudent.
  • Frustrate, foil, thwart, counteract, circumvent, balk, baffle, genial, complaisant, affable.
G
  • Game, play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport, entertainment.
  • Gather, accumulate, amass, collect, levy, muster, hoard.
  • Get, acquire, obtain, procure, attain, gain, win, earn.
  • Ghost, spirit, specter, phantom, apparition, shade, phantasm.
  • Gift, present, donation, grant, gratuity, bequest, boon, bounty, largess, fee, bribe.
  • Give, bestow, grant, confer, present, furnish, supply.
  • Glad, happy, cheerful, mirthful, joyful, joyous, blithe, gay.
  • Glower, lower, peek, peep, gape, con, pore, ogle, leer, view, survey.
  • Grand, magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, superb, sublime.
  • Greet, hail, salute, address, accost.
  • Grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, trouble, tribulation, woe.
  • Grieve, lament, mourn, bemoan, bewail, deplore, rue.
  • Guard, defend, protect, shield, shelter, screen, preserve.
H
  • Habit, custom, usage, practice, wont.
  • Habitation, abode, dwelling, residence, domicile, home.
  • Hang, electrocute, guillotine, lynch, dispatch, decimate, crucify.
  • Harass, annoy, irritate, vex, fret, worry, plague, torment, molest.
  • Harmful, injurious, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, noxious.
  • Haste, celerity, speed, hurry, expedition, dispatch.
  • Hate, detest, abhor, loathe, abominate, despise.
  • Hatred, hate, animosity, ill-will, enmity, hostility, bitterness.
  • Have, possess, own, hold.
  • Headstrong, wayward, willful, perverse, forward.
  • Healthful, wholesome, salutary, salubrious, sanitary, hygienic.
  • Heavy, weighty, burdensome, onerous.
  • Help (noun), aid, assistance, succor.
  • Help (verb), assist, aid, succor, abet, second, support, befriend.
  • Hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver.
  • Hide, conceal, secrete.
  • High, tall, lofty, elevated, towering.
  • Hinder, restrain, obstruct, impede, hamper, retard, check, curb, clog,
  • Hint, intimate, insinuate.
  • Hole, cavity, excavation, pit, cache, cave, cavern, hollow, depression,
  • Holy, sacred, hallowed, sanctified, consecrated, godly, pious, saintly, blessed.
  • Hopeful, expectant, sanguine, optimistic, confident.
  • Hopeless, despairing, disconsolate, desperate.
I
  • Idle, inert, lazy, indolent, sluggish, slothful.
  • Ignorant, illiterate, uninformed, uneducated, untutored, unlettered.
  • Immemorial, elderly, aged, hoary, decrepit, senile, superannuated.
  • Impolite, discourteous, inurbane, uncivil, rude, disrespectful, pert, saucy, impertinent, impudent, insolent.
  • Importance, consequence, moment.
  • Impostor, pretender, charlatan, masquerader, mountebank, deceiver.
  • Imprison, incarcerate, immure.
  • Improper, indecent, indecorous, unseemly, unbecoming, indelicate.
  • Impure, tainted, contaminated, polluted, defiled, vitiated.
  • Inborn, innate, inbred, congenital.
  • Incite, instigate, stimulate, impel, arouse, goad, spur, promote.
  • Incline, tip, lean, cant, slant, slope, tilt, list, careen, dip.
  • Increase, grow, enlarge, magnify, amplify, swell, augment.
  • Indecent, indelicate, immodest, shameless, ribald, lewd, lustful, lascivious, libidinous, obscene.
  • Insane, demented, deranged, crazy, mad.
  • Insanity, dementia, derangement, craziness, madness, lunacy, mania, frenzy, hallucination.
  • Insipid, tasteless, flat, vapid.
  • Insulting, scornful, imperious, contumelious, impudent, impertinent.
  • Intention, intent, purpose, plan, design, aim, object, end.
  • Interpose, intervene, intercede, interfere, mediate.
  • Intrepidity, daring, valor, prowess, fortitude, heroism.
  • Irreligious, ungodly, impious, godless, sacrilegious, blasphemous, profane.
  • Irritate, exasperate, nettle, incense.
J
  • Join, connect, unite, couple, combine, link, annex, append.
  • Journey, voyage, tour, pilgrimage, trip, jaunt, excursion, junket.
K
  • Kill, slay, slaughter, massacre, butcher, murder, assassinate, execute.
  • Kind, compassionate, merciful, lenient, benignant, benign, clement.
  • Kindle, ignite, inflame, rouse.
L
  • Lack, want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, deficit.
  • Lame, crippled, halt, deformed, maimed, disabled.
  • Large, great, big, huge, immense, colossal, gigantic, extensive, vast, massive, unwieldy, bulky.
  • Laugh, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, guffaw, cachinnate, chortle, roar.
  • Laughable, comical, comic, farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous, funny, droll.
  • Lead, guide, conduct, escort, convoy.
  • Lecture, preach, harangue, rant, roar, spout, thunder, declaim, harp.
  • Lengthen, prolong, protract, extend.
  • Lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, abate, curtail, moderate, mitigate, palliate.
  • Liberal, generous, bountiful, munificent.
  • Lie (noun), untruth, falsehood, falsity, fiction, fabrication, mendacity, canard, fib, story.
  • Lie (verb), prevaricate, falsify, equivocate, quibble, shuffle, dodge, fence, fib.
  • Likeness, resemblance, similitude, similarity, semblance, analogy.
  • Limp, flaccid, flabby, flimsy.
  • List, roll, catalogue, register, roster, schedule, inventory.
  • Look, glance, gaze, stare, peer, scan, scrutinize, gloat, glare.
  • Loud, resonant, clarion, stentorian, sonorous.
  • Love, affection, attachment, fondness, infatuation, devotion.
  • Low, base, abject, servile, slavish, menial.
  • Loyal, faithful, true, constant, staunch, unwavering, steadfast.
  • Lurk, skulk, slink, sneak, prowl.
M
  • Make, create, frame, fashion, mold, shape, form, forge, fabricate, invent, construct, manufacture, concoct.
  • Malice, malevolence, malignity, rancor, resentment, dudgeon, grudge.
  • Manifest, plain, obvious, clear, apparent, patent, evident, perceptible, noticeable, open, overt, palpable, tangible, indubitable, unmistakable.
  • Many, various, numerous, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad, countless, innumerable.
  • Margin, edge, limit, border, boundary, bound, bourn, brim, rim, brink.
  • Masculine, male, manly, manlike, manful, mannish, virile.
  • Matrimonial, conjugal, connubial, nuptial, marital.
  • Meaning, significance, signification, import, purport.
  • Meet, encounter, collide, confront, converge.
  • Meeting, assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, conference, concourse, gathering, mustering.
  • Melt, thaw, fuse, dissolve, liquefy.
  • Memory, remembrance, recollection, reminiscence, retrospection.
  • Merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, ruthless, fell.
  • Mercy, clemency, lenity, leniency, lenience, forbearance.
  • Misrepresent, misinterpret, falsify, distort, warp.
  • Mix, compound, amalgamate, weld, combine, blend, concoct.
  • Model, pattern, prototype, criterion, standard, exemplar, paragon, archetype, ideal.
  • Motive, incentive, inducement, desire, purpose.
  • Move, actuate, impel, prompt, incite.
N
  • Name, appellation, designation, denomination, title, alias, cognomen, patronymic, nom.
  • Near, nigh, close, neighboring, adjacent, contiguous.
  • Neat, tidy, orderly, spruce, trim, prim.
  • Needful, necessary, requisite, essential, indispensable.
  • Negligence, neglect, inattention, inattentiveness, inadvertence, remissness, oversight.
  • New, novel, fresh, recent, modern, late, innovative, unprecedented.
  • Nice, fastidious, dainty, finical, squeamish.
  • Noisy, clamorous, boisterous, hilarious, turbulent, riotous, obstreperous, uproarious, vociferous, blatant, brawling.
  • Noticeable, prominent, conspicuous, salient, signal.
O
  • Occupation, employment, calling, pursuit, vocation, avocation.
  • Old, ancient, olden, antique, antiquated, archaic, obsolete, venerable.
  • Order (noun), command, mandate, behest, injunction, decree.
  • Order (verb), command, enjoin, direct, instruct.
  • Oversight, supervision, direction, superintendence, surveillance.
P
  • Pacify, appease, placate, propitiate, conciliate, mollify.
  • Pale, pallid, wan, colorless, blanched, ghastly, ashen, cadaverous.
  • Part, piece, portion, section, subdivision, fraction, installment.
  • Patience, forbearance, resignation, longsuffering.
  • Pay, compensate, recompense, remunerate, requite, reimburse.
  • Pay, hire, salary, wages, fee, stipend, honorarium.
  • Penetrate, pierce, perforate.
  • Perforation, puncture, rent, slit, crack, chink, crevice, cranny, breach.
  • Pirate, corsair, raider, burglar, footpad, highwayman, depredator.
  • Pity, sympathy, compassion, commiseration, condolence.
  • Place, office, post, position, situation, appointment.
  • Plan, design, project, scheme, plot.
  • Playful, mischievous, roguish, prankish, sportive, arch.
  • Plentiful, plenteous, abundant, bounteous, copious, profuse, exuberant, luxuriant.
  • Plunder, rifle, loot, sack, pillage, devastate, despoil.
  • Polite, civil, obliging, courteous, courtly, urbane, affable.
  • Poverty, want, need, destitution, indigence, penury.
  • Pretty, beautiful, comely, handsome, fair.
  • Profitable, remunerative, lucrative, gainful.
  • Promenade, prowl, hobble, limp, perambulate.
  • Prompt, punctual, ready, expeditious.
  • Proud, arrogant, presumptuous, haughty, supercilious, insolent.
  • Prune, reap, mow, clip, shear, trim, dock, crop, shave, whittle, slice.
  • Pull, draw, drag, haul, tug, tow.
  • Punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, scourge.
  • Push, shove, thrust.
  • Puzzle, perplex, mystify, bewilder.
Q
  • Quarrel, altercation, disagreement, contention, controversy, breach.
  • Queer, odd, curious, quaint, ridiculous, singular, unique, bizarre, fantastic, grotesque.
R
  • Raise, lift, heave, hoist, erect, rear, elevate, exalt, enhance.
  • Rash, incautious, reckless, foolhardy, adventurous, venturous, venturesome.
  • Rebellion, insurrection, revolt, mutiny, riot, revolution, sedition.
  • Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, rally, recuperate.
  • Reflect, deliberate, ponder, muse, meditate, ruminate.
  • Relate, recount, recite, narrate, tell.
  • Relinquish, waive, renounce, surrender, forego, resign, abdicate.
  • Renounce, abjure, forswear, recant, retract, repudiate.
  • Replace, supersede, supplant, succeed.
  • Reprove, rebuke, reprimand, admonish, chide, upbraid, reproach, scold.
  • Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, gruesome.
  • Requital, retaliation, reprisal, revenge, vengeance, retribution.
  • Responsible, answerable, accountable, amenable, liable.
  • Reveal, disclose, divulge, manifest, show, betray.
  • Reverence, veneration, awe, adoration, worship.
  • Rich, wealthy, affluent, opulent.
  • Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.
  • Ripe, mature, mellow.
  • Rise, arise, mount, ascend.
  • Robber, bandit, brigand, desperado, buccaneer, freebooter.
  • Rogue, knave, rascal, miscreant, scamp, sharper, villain.
  • Round, circular, rotund, spherical, globular, orbicular.
  • Rub, polish, burnish, furbish, scour.
  • Rumpus, ruction, spat, tiff, fuss, jar, feud.
  • Run, scamper, scurry, scuttle, scud, scour, pace, gallop, trot, lope.
  • Rupture, dispute, dissension, bickering, wrangle, broil, squabble, row.
  • Rural, rustic, pastoral, bucolic.
S
  • Sad, grave, sober, moody, doleful, downcast, dreary, woeful, somber, unhappy, woebegone, mournful, depressed, despondent, gloomy, melancholy, heavy-spirited, sorrowful, dismal, dejected, disconsolate, miserable, lugubrious.
  • Satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, gorge.
  • Say, utter, pronounce, announce, state, declare, affirm, aver.
  • Scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, sneer, mock, taunt.
  • Secret, covert, surreptitious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy.
  • See, perceive, descry, distinguish, espy, discern, note, notice, watch.
  • Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude.
  • Sell, barter, vend, trade.
  • Shape, form, figure, outline, conformation, configuration, contour, profile.
  • Share, partake, participate, divide.
  • Sharp, keen, acute, cutting, trenchant, incisive.
  • Shine, beam, gleam, glisten, glister, glitter, glare, flare, flash.
  • Shore, coast, littoral, beach, strand, bank.
  • Shorten, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, truncate, syncopate.
  • Show (noun), display, ostentation, parade, pomp, splurge.
  • Show, exhibit, display, expose, manifest, evince.
  • Shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail.
  • Shun, avoid, eschew.
  • Shy, bashful, diffident, modest, coy, timid, shrinking.
  • Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.
  • Silent, reserved, uncommunicative, reticent, taciturn.
  • Simple, innocent, artless, unsophisticated, naive.
  • Sing, chant, carol, warble, troll, yodel, croon, hum, chirp,
  • Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious.
  • Skin, hide, pelt, fell.
  • Slander, defame, asperse, calumniate, traduce, vilify, malign, libel.
  • Sleep, slumber, repose, nap, doze, drowse, lethargy, dormancy, coma.
  • Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic.
  • Slit, score, lance, carve, bisect, dissect, amputate, detruncate.
  • Slovenly, slatternly, dowdy, frowsy, blowzy.
  • Sly, crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, artful, politic, designing.
  • Smell, odor, savor, scent, fragrance, aroma, perfume, redolence, tang.
  • Smile, smirk, grin.
  • Sneak, shamble, amble, wander, stamp, slouch, gad, gallivant, glide, hike>.
  • Solitary, lonely, lone, lonesome, desolate, deserted, uninhabited.
  • Song, ballad, ditty, lullaby, hymn, anthem, dirge, chant, paean, lay,
  • Sour, acid, tart, acrid, acidulous, acerbitous, astringent.
  • Sparkle, twinkle, dazzle, glimmer, glow, radiate, scintillate.
  • Speak, discourse, expatiate, descant, comment, argue, persuade, plead,
  • Speech, discourse, oration, address, sermon, declamation, dissertation, exhortation, disquisition, harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, philippic, invective, rhapsody, plea.
  • Spend, expend, disburse, squander, waste, lavish.
  • Splinter, sunder, rive, crush, batter, demolish, rupture.
  • Spoiler, despoiler, forager, pillager, plunderer, marauder, myrmidon.
  • Spot, blotch, speckle, fleck, dapple, smear, smutch, brand, defacement.
  • Spruce, natty, dapper, smart, chic.
  • Stale, musty, frowzy, mildewed, fetid, rancid, rank.
  • Stay, tarry, linger, stop, sojourn, remain, abide, live, reside, dwell.
  • Steal, abstract, pilfer, filch, purloin, peculate, swindle, plagiarize.
  • Steep, precipitous, abrupt.
  • Stingy, close, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid,
  • Storm, tempest, whirlwind, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, typhoon
  • Straight, perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright.
  • Strange, singular, peculiar, odd, queer, quaint, outlandish.
  • Strike, hit, smite, thump, beat, cuff, buffet, knock, whack, belabor,
  • Strong, stout, robust, sturdy, stalwart, powerful.
  • Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, sluggish, brainless, bovine.
  • Suave, bland, unctuous, fulsome, smug, complaisant, elegant.
  • Succeed, prosper, thrive, flourish, triumph.
  • Succession, sequence, series.
  • Sullen, surly, sulky, crabbed, cross, gruff, grumpy, glum, morose, dour.
  • Supernatural, preternatural, superhuman, miraculous.
  • Supplicate, importune, petition, plead, pray.
  • Suppose, surmise, conjecture, presume, imagine, fancy, guess, think, believe.
  • Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound.
  • Swearing, cursing, profanity, blasphemy, execration, imprecation.
T
  • Talk, chat, chatter, prate, prattle, babble, gabble, jabber, tattle.
  • Talkative, loquacious, garrulous, fluent, voluble, glib, chattering, long-winded.
  • Teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, drill, inculcate, instill, indoctrinate.
  • Tear, rend, rip, lacerate, mangle.
  • Thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, reflective, pensive, wistful.
  • Throw, pitch, hurl, dash, fling, cast, toss, flip, chuck, sling, heave.
  • Tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag.
  • Toddle, waddle, shuffle, mince, stroll, saunter, ramble, meander.
  • Tool, implement, instrument, utensil.
  • Trifle, dally, dawdle, potter.
  • Trim, dapper, spruce, genteel, urbane, well-bred, gracious, affable.
  • Trust, confidence, reliance, assurance, faith.
  • Try, endeavor, essay, attempt.
  • Turn, revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, gyrate.
  • Twaddle, blab, gossip, palaver, parley, converse, mumble, mutter, stammer.
U
  • Ugly, homely, uncomely, hideous.
  • Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined, loath, averse.
V
  • Vestments, attire, garb, habit, costume, uniform.
W
  • Walk, plod, trudge, tread, stride, stalk, strut, tramp, march, pace.
  • Watchful, vigilant, alert.
  • Wave (noun), billow, breaker, swell, ripple, undulation.
  • Wave (verb), brandish, flourish, flaunt, wigwag.
  • Weak, debilitated, feeble, infirm, decrepit, impotent, enervated, languid.
  • Weariness, languor, lassitude, enervation, exhaustion.
  • Wearisome, tiresome, irksome, tedious, humdrum.
  • Wet (adjective), humid, moist, damp, dank, sodden, soggy.
  • Wet (verb), moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate, drench
  • Whim, caprice, vagary, fancy, freak, whimsy, crotchet.
  • Whip, chastise, castigate, flagellate, scourge, lash, trounce, thrash.
  • Wicked, sinful, felonious, illegal, immoral, heinous, flagitious,
  • Wind, breeze, gust, blast, flaw, gale, squall, flurry.
  • Wind, coil, twist, twine, wreathe.
  • Winding, tortuous, serpentine, sinuous, meandering.
  • Wise, learned, erudite, sagacious, sapient, sage, judicious, prudent.
  • Wonderful, marvelous, phenomenal, miraculous.
  • Work, labor, toil, drudgery.
  • Workman, laborer, artisan, artificer, mechanic, craftsman.
  • Write, inscribe, scribble, scrawl, scratch.
Y
  • Young, youthful, boyish, girlish, juvenile, puerile, immature, callow, adolescent.

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