Pericles (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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Pericles Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

William Shakespeare

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Pericles Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

William Shakespeare

PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 PERSONS REPRESENTED ................................................................................................ 3 ACT I ................................................................................................................................ 5 ACT II ............................................................................................................................. 27 ACT III ............................................................................................................................ 55 ACT IV ............................................................................................................................ 71 ACT V ........................................................................................................................... 101 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 123

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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Pericles by William Shakespeare was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1 Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult, and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected] The Editor Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org

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PERSONS REPRESENTED

ANTIOCHUS, King of Antioch.% PERICLES, Prince of Tyre. HELICANUS, ESCANES,

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two Lords of Tyre.

SIMONIDES, King of Pentapolis. CLEON, Governor Of Tarsus. LYSIMACHUS, Governor of Mytilene. CERIMON, a Lord of Ephesus. THALIARD, a Lord of Antioch. PFIILEMON, servant to Cerimon. LEONINE, servant to Dionyza. MARSHAL. A PANDAR. BOULT, his servant. THE DAUGHTER OF ANTIOCHUS. DIONYZA, wife to Cleon. THAISA, DAUGHTER TO SIMONIDES. MARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. LYCHORIDA, nurse to Marina. A BAWD. LORDS, KNIGHTS, GENTLEMEN, SAILORS, PIRATES, FISHERMEN, AND MESSENGERS.

Thesaurus daughter: (n) child, son, maiden, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey, young woman, daughterly, lass, retainer, boy, footman, flunky, menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master, unmarried woman, damsel, miss, missy, virgin. mistress. marina: (n) dock, harbor, port, wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, anchorage, haven, wharf, waterfront, married woman, spouse, consort, docking facility, quay, dockage. helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, nurse: (n, v) nourish, nurture; (v) look viscountess. after, entertain, attend, cherish, lactate, harbor, foster, cultivate, cradle. servant: (n) manservant, domestic,

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DIANA.% GOWER, as CHORUS.

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[Enter GOWER.] [Before the palace of Antioch.] GOWER. To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man's infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember-eves and holy-ales; And lords and ladies in their lives Have read it for restoratives: The purchase is to make men glorious; Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius. If you, born in these latter times, When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes, And that to hear an old man sing May to your wishes pleasure bring, I life would wish, and that I might Waste it for you, like taper-light. This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great

Thesaurus ashes: (n) dust, cinders, remains, cinder, clay, earth, embers, clinker; (adj) scoriae, mother, precipitate. glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay, blithe, delighted, festive, content, delightful, genial, bright, willing. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, apologetic, dismayed, unwilling, disappointed, sorry. palace: (n) castle, mansion, hall, alcazar, chateau, palazzo, house, palaces, regime, fortress, serai.

purchase: (v) obtain, get, procure, intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch; bribe; (n) acquisition, leverage, (n, v) twitter, squeak. bargain, acquirement, grip, buying; song: (adj, v) lay; (n, v) ditty, chant; (n) (n, v) contract. ANTONYMS: (v) sell, air, strain, cry, warble, canto, poem; lose; (n) loss, sale. (v) sing; (adj) ballad. ripe: (adj) adult, ready, advanced, sung: (v) sing; (n) call, sung dynasty, prepared, good, grown, perfect, strain, song dynasty, song, birdsong, matured, finished, consummate; (adj, birdcall; (adj) spoken, outspoken, v) mellow. ANTONYMS: (adj) green, choral. wishes: (n) desires, requirements, unripe, immature, dry, poisonous, young, unsuitable, sweet. requests, needs, will. sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone,

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Built %up, this city, for his chiefest seat; The fairest in all Syria, I tell you what mine authors say: This king unto him took a fere, Who died and left a female heir, So buxom, so blithe, and full of face, As heaven had lent her all his grace; With whom the father liking took, And her to incest did provoke: Bad child; worse father! to entice his own To evil should be done by none: But custom what they did begin Was with long use account no sin. The beauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame, To seek her as a bed-fellow, In marriage-pleasures play-fellow: Which to prevent he made a law, To keep her still, and men in awe, That whoso ask'd her for his wife, His riddle told not, lost his life: So for her many a wight did die, As yon grim looks do testify. What now ensues, to the judgement your eye I give, my cause who lest can justify. [Exit.]

SCENE I. ANTIOCH. A ROOM IN THE PALACE. [Enter ANTIOCHUS, PRINCE PERICLES, and followers.]

Thesaurus antioch: (n) Antakya. fat. ANTONYMS: (adj) skinny, bony. blithe: (adj) cheerful, lighthearted, entice: (n, v) lure, attract, seduce, tempt; (v) cajole, bait, draw, charm, breezy, pleasant, merry, carefree, buoyant, facetious, gay, happy, coax, allure, captivate. ANTONYMS: animated. ANTONYMS: (adj) (v) dissuade, repulse, discourage, unhappy, sorrowful, miserable, force. incest: (n) criminal congress, idolatry, downhearted, depressed, anxious, sad, heavy, gloomy, serious, adultery. riddle: (n) mystery, conundrum, troubled. buxom: (adj) bosomy, chubby, bonny, puzzle, problem, poser; (n, v) screen, sieve; (v) puncture, strain, filter, sift. plump, sonsy, voluptuous, ANTONYM: (n) explanation. curvaceous, shapely, full, crummy,

sinful: (adj) wicked, impious, bad, iniquitous, ungodly, depraved, immoral, profane, criminal, wrong, unholy. ANTONYMS: (adj) pious, virtuous, moral, right, pure. thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that point, in that respect, at that place, in that location; (adj) further, ulterior, remoter, succeeding, more distant. unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before. whoso: (pron) whosoever.

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ANTIOCHUS. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received The danger of the task you undertake.% PERICLES. I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul Embolden'd with the glory of her praise, Think death no hazard in this enterprise. ANTIOCHUS. Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride, For the embracements even of Jove himself; At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd, Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence, The senate-house of planets all did sit, To knit in her their best perfections. [Music. Enter THE DAUGHTER OF ANTIOCHUS.] PERICLES See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king Of every virtue gives renown to men! Her face the book of praises, where is read Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath Could never be her mild companion. You gods that made me man, and sway in love, That have inflamed desire in my breast To taste the fruit of yon celestal tree, Or die in the adventure, be my helps, As I am son and servant to your will, To compass such a boundless happiness! ANTIOCHUS. Prince Pericles, --

Thesaurus boundless: (adj) limitless, endless, unlimited, infinite, bottomless, incalculable, immense, immeasurable, interminable, unbounded, vast. ANTONYMS: (adj) limited, restricted, confined, finite, incomplete, negligible, small. clothed: (adj) dressed, wrapped, cloaked, robed, covered, attired, vested, absorbed, decent; (v) accustomed, arrayed. ANTONYM: (adj) unclothed.

dowry: (n) dot, inheritance, gift, prominence, honor. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, commonness; (adj) alimony, dowery, portion, jointure, grant, share, endowment, heritage. anonymity. gods: (n) gallery. sway: (n, v) command, rule, control, inflamed: (adj) impassioned, excited, rock, stagger, roll; (v) oscillate, reel, angry, hot, flaming, ablaze, irritated, lurch, shake; (n) reign. ANTONYMS: passionate, painful, burning; (n) red. (v) stay, dissuade, discourage. pleasures: (n) pleasure. testy: (adj) petulant, irritable, crabby, razed: (adj) dismantled, destroyed. irascible, fractious, cantankerous, renown: (n, v) fame; (n) glory, cranky, cross, techy, fretful, tetchy. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, pleasant, distinction, eminence, notoriety, kudos, name, popularity, prestige, cheerful.

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PERICLES. That would be son to great Antiochus.% ANTIOCHUS. Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard: Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view Her countless glory, which desert must gain; And which, without desert, because thine eye Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die. Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself, Drawn by report, adventurous by desire, Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale, That without covering, save yon field of stars, Here they stand Martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars; And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist For going on death's net, whom none resist. PERICLES. Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught My frail mortality to know itself, And by those fearful objects to prepare This body, like to them, to what I must; For death remember'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us life 's but breath, to trust it error. I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe, Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did; So I bequeath a happy peace to you And all good men, as every prince should do; My riches to the earth from whence they came; But my unspotted fire of love to you.

Thesaurus affright: (v) frighten, scare, horrify, startle, terrorize, terrify, intimidate; (n) dread, alarm, fear; (n, v) fright. bequeath: (n, v) will; (v) leave, give, pass on, demise, entrust, endow, devise, transmit, remember, donate. ANTONYMS: (v) disown, withdraw, take. erst: (adv) once, formerly, ago, time was, over, whilom, heretofore, previously, before, erewhile, at one time.

riches: (n, v) money; (n) affluence, abundance, fortune, opulence, plenty, prosperity, exuberance, treasure, resources; (v) gold. semblance: (adj, n) color; (n) resemblance, appearance, look, aspect, air, image, similarity, pretense, guise, pretext. ANTONYM: (n) difference. slain: (v) slay; (adj) overthrown, mat, fallen, dejected, cast down. speechless: (adj) silent, mute, dumb,

dumbfounded, voiceless, quiet, tongueless, tacit, noiseless, mum, wordless. ANTONYMS: (adj) loquacious, eloquent, talkative. unspotted: (adj) unblemished, unstained, unsoiled, stainless, pure, blameless, immaculate, undefaced, undeformed, spotless, untarnished. whence: (adv) wherefrom, hence, because, for, why, wherefore, how, then, then thence so, how comes it, how happens it.

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[To THE DAUGHTER OF ANTIOCHUS.] Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.% ANTIOCHUS. Scorning advice, read the conclusion, then: Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed, As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed. DAUGHTER. Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous! Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness! PERICLES Like a bold champion, I assume THe lists, Nor ask advice of any other thought But faithfulness and courage. [He reads the riddle.] I am no viper, yet I feed On mother's flesh which did me breed. I sought a husband, in which labour I found that kindness in a father: He's father, son, and husband mild; I mother, wife, and yet his child. How they may be, and yet in two, As you will live, resolve it you. Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts, Why cloud they not their sights perpetually, If this be true, which makes me pale to read it? Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still, [Takes hold of the hand of the Princess.] Were not this glorious casket stored with ill: But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt;

Thesaurus bleed: (v) run, ooze, phlebotomize, faithfulness: (n) devotion, constancy, leak, percolate, shed blood, trickle, allegiance, truth, accuracy, loyalty, hemorrhage, fleece; (n) ache, smart. dedication, faith, exactness, casket: (n) box, coffin, chest, adherence; (adj, n) honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) disloyalty, sarcophagus, coffer, caddy, bier, gasket, reliquary, desk; (v) enclose. unfaithfulness, inaccuracy, countless: (adj) innumerable, dishonesty, disobedience, multitudinous, many, endless, wickedness, indifference. kindness: (n) generosity, clemency, myriad, measureless, uncounted, legion, untold, infinite, incalculable. compassion, grace, good will, ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, limited, graciousness, humanity, goodness, numbered, counted, countable, small. affection; (adj, n) courtesy, gentleness.

ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, spite, nastiness, callousness, cruelty, unfriendliness, maliciousness, thoughtlessness, sourness, severity, disservice. physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, remedy; (v) heal. viper: (n) adder, snake, asp, cerastes, reptile, horned viper, asp viper, basilisk, beast, brute, cockatrice.

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For he's no man on whom perfections wait That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate, You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings; Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music, Would draw heaven down, and all the gods to hearken; But being play'd upon before your time, Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime. Good sooth, I care not for you.% ANTIOCHUS. Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life, For that's an article within our law, As dangerous as the rest. Tour time's expired: Either expound now, or receive your sentence. PERICLES. Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act; 'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it. Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown: For vice repeated is like the wandering wind, Blows dust in others' eyes, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't. Kind are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will; And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill? It is enough you know; and it is fit, What being more known grows worse, to smother it.

Thesaurus braid: (adj) knit, string, tie; (n, v) twine; (adj, v) embroider, lace; (v) plat; (n) tress, pigtail, ribbon, band. expound: (v) explicate, elucidate, annotate, elaborate, define, read, clarify, illustrate, interpret; (adj, v) explain, expand. hills: (n) home, dry land, foothills, earth, ground. lawful: (adj) legal, just, rightful, constitutional, true, right, justifiable, licit, regular; (n, v) allowable; (adj, v)

permissible. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlawful, prohibited, unconstitutional. mole: (n) jetty, freckle, spy, bulwark, nevus, mol, groyne, blemish, birthmark; (adj, v) mound; (v) embankment. monarchs: (n) royals, royalty. smother: (v) stifle, suffocate, choke, muffle, extinguish, put out, suppress, asphyxiate, hush up, gag, repress. ANTONYMS: (v) express, light,

encourage. sooth: (n) verity, soothsaying, fact, truth, reality. stray: (v) wander, ramble, range, digress, straggle, meander, depart, deviate, rove, drift, err. ANTONYM: (v) settle. viol: (n) bowed stringed instrument, string, bass viol. worm: (v) squirm, wriggle, twist, spiral, helix, writhe; (n) helminth, maggot; (adj) emmet, midge, fly.

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All love the womb that their first bred, Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.% ANTIOCHUS. [Aside] Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him. -- Young prince of Tyre. Though by the tenour of our strict edict, Your exposition misinterpreting, We might proceed to cancel of your days; Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise: Forty days longer we do respite you; If by which time our secret be undone, This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son: And until then your entertain shall be As doth befit our honour and your worth. [Exeunt all but PERICLES.] PERICLES. How courtesy would seem to cover sin, When what is done is like an hypocrite, The which is good in nothing but in sight! If it be true that I interpret false, Then were it certain you were not so bad As with foul incest to abuse your soul; Where now you're both a father and a son, By your untimely claspings with your child, Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father; And she an eater of her mother's flesh, By the defiling of her parent's bed; And both like serpents are, who though they feed On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.

Thesaurus befit: (adj, v) suit, become, behoove, fit; (v) beseem, pertain, sit, agree, assort; (adj) suitable, meet. defiling: (adj) impious, infectious; (n) inquination. eater: (n) glutton, devourer, diner, trencherman, dunker, affluent, viander, vegetarian, picnicker, mouth, luncher. exposition: (n) comment, exhibition, show, explanation, elucidation, clarification, exhibit, description,

demonstration, dissertation, fair. fits: (v) epilepsy, bustle, racket, fuss, hubbub, megrims, rout, subsultus, staggers. gloze: (n) flattery, adulation, extenuate, excuse, apologize, blandishment; (v) pet, soothe, blandish, flatter, adulate. succeeding: (adj) following, subsequent, after, consecutive, posterior, ensuing, consequent, successive, consequential; (adj, adv)

later; (v) succeed. ANTONYMS: (adj) outgoing, preceding. untimely: (adj) early, unseasonable, inopportune, inappropriate, awkward, immature, previous, ill timed, inconvenient, improper, belated. ANTONYMS: (adj) timely, appropriate, opportune, convenient, overdue. womb: (n) belly, nursery, nest, intestines, guts, vitals, bowels, chitterings, cradle, entrails, viscera.

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Antioch, %farewell! for wisdom sees, those men Blush not in actions blacker than the night, Will shun no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke: Poison and treason are the hands of sin, Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame: Then, lest my life be cropp'd to keep you clear, By flight I 'II shun the danger which I fear. [Exit.] [Re-enter ANTIOCHUS.] ANTIOCHUS. He gath found the meaning, for which we mean To have his head. He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy, Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin In such a loathed manner; And therefore instantly this prince must die; For by his fall my honour must keep high. Who attends us there? [Enter THALIARD.] THALIARD. Doth your highness call? ANTIOCHUS. Thaliard, You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes Her private actions to your secrecy; And for your faithfulness we will advance you. Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold; We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:

Thesaurus behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook. flame: (adj, n) fire, sweetheart; (adj, v) burn, glow; (n, v) flash; (n) ardour, burning, fervor, enthusiasm, combustion, sheen. highness: (n) excellency, altitude, loftiness, nobility, greatness, eminence, size, stateliness, majesty,

high, grandeur. thousand, gramme, gram, gm, loathed: (adj) unpopular, hated, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage. treason: (n) treachery, perfidy, high reviled, undesirable. lust: (n, v) desire, hunger, itch; (n) treason, sabotage, lese majesty, craving, greed, libido, lecherousness, traitorousness, subversiveness, cupidity, lewdness; (v) covet, crave. duplicity; (adj, n) disloyalty, sedition, shun: (v) evade, escape, elude, dodge, prodition. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, flee, refuse, shirk, ostracize, banish, faithfulness, fidelity. parry; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS: trumpet: (n) horn, cornet, bugle, (v) befriend, invite, seek, welcome, clarion, trump, brass, trombone; (v) woo, court, participate, include. proclaim, promulgate, show off, thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one blare.

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It fits thee not to ask the reason why, Because we Bid it. Say, is it done? THALIARD. My lord, Tis

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ANTIOCHUS. Enough. [Enter a MESSENGER.] Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste. MESSENGER. My lord, prlnce Pericles is fled. [Exit.] ANTIOCHUS. As thou Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot From a well-experienced archer hits the mark His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.' THALIARD. My lord, If I can get him within my pistol's length, I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness. ANTIOCHUS. Thaliard! adieu! [Exit THALIARD.] Till Pericles be dead, My heart can lend no succour to my head. [Exit.]

Thesaurus archer: (n) bowman, Sagittarius, turfman, fan, expert, shot, shooter, toxophilite, tell, bowyer. arrow: (n) missile, bolt, dart, barb, gun, spear, bullet, cursor; (adj, n) rocket; (adj) hydrargyrum, quicksilver. breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration, puff, soul, aspiration, respite, airflow; (v) breathe, respire; (adj, n) whisper. cool: (adj, v) chill, assuage, soothe; (adj) chilly, cold, collected, composed, fine,

aloof; (v) quench; (n) poise. ANTONYMS: (v) heat; (adj) hot, agitated, excited, friendly, feverish, enthusiastic, tepid, temperate, bad, upset. farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, salutation, welcome. haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, rush; (n) celerity, expedition,

rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, patience, forethought, caution. lend: (v) grant, give, advance, impart, bestow, contribute, borrow, bring, add, confer; (n) lending. ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not. succour: (n, v) succor; (n) consolation, relief, ministration, mercy, assistance, helping, ease, embossment; (v) relieve, further.

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SCENE II. TYRE. A ROOM IN THE PALACE.% [Enter PERICLES.] PERICLES. [To LORDS without.] Let none disturb us. -- Why should this change of thoughts, The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, Be my so used a guest as not an hour, In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night, The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet? Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them, And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch, Whose arm seems far too short to hit me here: Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits, Nor yet the other's distance comfort me. Then it is thus: the passions of the mind, That have their first conception by mis-dread Have after-nourishment and life by care; And what was first but fear what might he done, Grows elder now and cares it be not done. And so with me: the great Antiochus, 'Gainst whom I am too little to contend, Since he 's so great can make his will his act, Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence; Nor boots it me to say I honour him. If he suspect I may dishonour him: And what may make him blush in being known, He'll stop the course by which it might be known; With hostile forces he'11 o'erspread the land, And with the ostent of war will look so huge, Amazement shall drive courage from the state;

Thesaurus blush: (n, v) glow, color; (v) redden, crimson; (n) red, bloom, rosiness, ruddiness, redness; (adj) bashful; (adv) blushingly. ANTONYMS: (v) blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness. companion: (adj, n) associate; (n) colleague, buddy, mate, peer, chum, partner, fellow, comrade, assistant, brother. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, adversary. dishonour: (v) discredit, disgrace, attaint, shame, degrade, desecrate,

violate, rape, outrage; (n) stigma, opprobrium. disturb: (v) trouble, disorder, disconcert, distress, perturb, disquiet, distract, discompose, disrupt, upset, concern. ANTONYMS: (v) calm, please, soothe, smooth, order, reassure, sort, settle, respect, quiet, organize. glorious: (adj) distinguished, beautiful, bright, celebrated, brilliant, eminent, magnificent, super, great, splendid;

(adj, v) illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sorrowful, despicable, horrible, shameful, lowly. swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, avow, depone, depose, aver. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute, deny, compliment. tomb: (n) sepulchre, sepulcher, crypt, pit, sepulture, vault, monument, entomb, mausoleum; (n, v) bury; (v) inter.

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Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist, And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence: Which care of them, not pity of myself, Who am no more but as the tops of trees, Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them, Makes both my body pine and soul to languish, And punish that before that he would punish.% [Enter HELICANUS, with other LORDS.] FIRST LORD. Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast! SECOND LORD. And keep your mind, till you return to us, Peaceful and comfortable! HELICANUS. Peace, peace, and give experience tongue. They do abuse the king that flatter him: For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark, To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing: Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace, He flatters you, makes war upon your life. Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please; I cannot be much lower than my knees. PERICLES. All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook What shipping and what lading is in our haven, And then return to us. [Exeunt LORDS.]

Thesaurus bellows: (n) blower, lung, bellowing, blowpipe, organ; (v) air blower, air pump, fan, punkah, ventilator. flatter: (v) fawn, adulate, wheedle, cajole, soap, kowtow, blandish, grovel, butter up; (n, v) court; (n) caress. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, disparage, criticize, discourage. flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney, compliment, adulation, taffy, palaver, praise, gloze, sweet talk, sycophancy, soft soap. ANTONYMS: (n) insult,

pine: (v) languish, long, ache, droop, offense. lading: (n, v) load, burden, weight; (n) flag, crave, fade; (n) fir; (n, v) yearn, sink; (adj) peak. freight, consignment, shipment, proclaim: (v) declare, assert, advertise, loading, shipping, freightage, product, wares. broadcast, promulgate, enunciate, obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, herald, decree, divulge, notify, good, conformable, tame, annunciate. acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, reproof: (n, v) reprimand, censure, amenable, subservient. ANTONYMS: rebuke, lecture; (n) reproach, (adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious, admonition, reprehension, blame, crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, condemnation, objurgation, resistant. castigation.

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Helicanus, thou Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks? HELICANUS. An angry brow, dread lord.% PERICLES. If there be such a dart in princes' frowns, How durst thy tongue move anger to our face? HELICANUS. How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence They have their nourishment? PERICLES. Thou know'st I have power To take thy life from thee. HELICANUS. [Kneeling.] I have ground the axe myself; Do you but strike the blow. PERICLES. Rise, prithee, rise. Sit down: thou art no flatterer: I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid! Fit counsellor and servant for a prince, Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant, What wouldst thou have me do? HELICANUS. To bear with patience Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself. PERICLES. Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,

Thesaurus brow: (n) peak, brink, brows, height, delay, amble; (n) tonic. repast, sustenance, edible, fuel. dread: (n, v) apprehension, fear, panic; physician: (n) doctor, medico, doc, summit, forehead, eyebrow, edge, crown, brim, border. ANTONYM: (n) (n) anxiety, awe, consternation, medic, quack, surgeon, leech, trough. alarm, trepidation, dismay, houseman, MD, allergist, intern. counsellor: (n) counselor, advocate, prithee: (v) pray; (int) prythee. foreboding, terror. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasing, welcomed, pleasant; wisdom: (n) judiciousness, adviser, councillor, advisor, mentor, pleader, attorney, lawyer, consultant, (v) welcome, want; (n) reassurance, knowledge, sapience, sagacity, sense, solicitor. fearlessness, confidence, security, prudence, discernment, insight, dart: (n, v) dash, run, flit; (v) bound, ease, calm. learning, depth, reasonableness. flash, shoot, rush, race, gallop; (adj, n) ears: (n) antenna. ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity, folly, arrow, rocket. ANTONYMS: (v) plod, nourishment: (n) food, alimentation, inexperience, ignorance, flippancy, trudge, slog, linger, dawdle, dally, meal, meat, diet, feeding, nutrition, banality.

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That %minister'st a potion unto me That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself. Attend me, then: I went to Antioch, And there as thou know'st, against the face of death, I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty, From whence an issue I might propagate, Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects. Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder; The rest -- hark in thine ear -- as black as incest: Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. Which fear so grew in me, I hither fled, Under the covering of a careful night, Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here, Bethought me what was past, what might succeed. I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years: And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, That I should open to the listening air How many worthy princes' bloods were shed, To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms, And make pretence of wrong that I have done him; When all, for mine, if I may call offence, Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence: Which love to all, of which thyself art one, Who now reprovest me for it, -HELICANUS. Alas, sir!

Thesaurus blackness: (n) black, darkness, sable, gloom, nigritude, night, inkiness, dark, murk, murkiness, obscurity. hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look. hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither. knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, wist. potion: (n) drink, beverage, medicine, draft, elixir, dose, dram, philter; (n, v) swill, essence; (v) drench. pretence: (n) deceit, pretext,

dissimulation, pretense, affectation, tyrannous: (adj) tyrannical, despotic, falsehood, deception, hypocrisy, autocratic, domineering, undisputed, bluff, appearance, pretension. arbitrary, absolute, unmerciful, protector: (n) guard, guardian, patron, imperious, authoritarian, dictatorial. worthy: (adj) noble, good, meritorious, champion, custodian, conservator, escort, hero, paladin, supporter, valuable, estimable, respectable, benefactor. deserving, worthwhile, virtuous, tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v) quiver, honorable; (adj, n) celebrity. shudder, thrill, palpitate; (adj, v) ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, unrespected, totter, quake; (n) throb; (v) flutter, disreputable, mediocre, petty, poor, quail, falter. ANTONYMS: (v) steady, unimpressive, insignificant, dishonorable, despicable; (n) nobody. calm.

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PERICLES. Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks, Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts How I might stop this tempest ere it came; And finding little comfort to relieve them, I thought it princely charity to grieve them.% HELICANUS. Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak, Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear, And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant, Who either by public war or private treason Will take away your life. Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while, Till that his rage and anger be forgot, Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life. Your rule direct to any; if to me, Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be. PERICLES. I do not doubt thy faith; But should he wrong my liberties in my absence? HELCANUS. We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth, From whence we had our being and our birth. PERICLES. Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee; And by whose letters I'll dispose myself. The care I had and have of subjects' good On thee I lay, whose wisdom's strength can bear it. I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath: Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:

Thesaurus dispose: (n, v) incline, order, influence; (v) adjust, predispose, position, place, lead, tend; (n) bias, array. ANTONYMS: (v) disturb, disqualify, displace, disorder, disincline, disarrange. eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby blues, guard, propensity, eyen. grieve: (n, v) distress, aggrieve, afflict, sorrow, annoy; (v) trouble, lament, deplore, bemoan, fret, bewail. ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice, celebrate,

encourage. justly: (adv) accurately, fairly, correctly, honestly, lawfully, properly, exactly, uprightly, legitimately, impartially, purely. ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly, unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly, unlawfully, sinfully, falsely, immorally. liberties: (n) freedoms, familiarity, intimacy. mingle: (v) compound, combine,

merge, amalgamate, intermix, mix, commingle, associate, confuse, join, intermingle. ANTONYM: (v) part. princely: (adj, v) August, grand, great, lordly, dignified, stately; (adj) generous, munificent, majestic, magnificent, gorgeous. ANTONYM: (adj) ungenerous. tempest: (adj, n) storm, gust; (n) gale, hurricane, squall, disturbance, cyclone, typhoon, agitation, tornado, blizzard. ANTONYM: (n) serenity.

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But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe, That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince, Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince.% [Exeunt.]

SCENE III. TYRE. AN ANTE-CHAMBER IN THE PALACE. [Enter THALIARD.] THALIARD. So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I Kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that, being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he had some reason for 't; for if a king bid a man be a villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to be one. Hush! here come the lords of Tyre. [Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other LORDS of Tyre.] HELICANUS. You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, Further to question me of your king's departure: His seal'd commission, left in trust with me, Doth speak sufficiently he 's gone to travel. THALIARD. [Aside.] How! the king gone! HELICANUS. If further yet you will be satisfied,

Thesaurus desired: (adj) coveted, desirable, secrets: (n) secrecy. covenant, agreement, contract, shine: (n, v) light, sheen, flash, glitter, favorite, wanted, welcome, needed, indentation, notch, assurance, beloved, required, most wanted; (adj, charter; (v) bind, oblige. sparkle, polish, rub; (v) burnish, v) chosen; (v) consenting. oath: (n) expletive, malediction, gleam, blaze; (n) radiance. discretion: (n) circumspection, imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, wise: (adj) reasonable, sensible, sound, prudence, delicacy, diplomacy, swearing, pledge, assurance, rational, sagacious, intelligent, asseveration; (v) swear. prudent, shrewd, discreet; (adj, n) calculation, free will, discernment, perceive: (v) comprehend, apprehend, knowing; (n) method. ANTONYMS: discreetness, tact, confidentiality, choice. ANTONYMS: (n) tactlessness, discover, see, grasp, find, know, (adj) unwise, stupid, ignorant, observe, sense, appreciate; (adj, v) rashness, indiscretion, foolishness, mistaken, illogical, reckless, naive, discern. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, vulgarity, openness, clumsiness. irrational, dense. indenture: (n, v) indent; (n) deed, observe, ignore.

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Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves, He would depart, I 'II give some light unto you. Being at Antioch -THALIARD. [Aside.] What from Antioch? HELICANUS. Royal Antiochus -- on what cause I know not Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so: And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd, To show his sorrow, he 'ld correct himself; So puts himself unto the shipman's toil, With whom each minute threatens life or death.% THALIARD. [Aside.] Well, I perceive I shall not be hang'd now, although I would; But since he 's gone, the king's seas must please He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea. I 'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre! HELICANUS. Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome. THALIARD. From him I come With message unto princely Pericles; But since my landing I have understood Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels, My message must return from whence it came. HELICANUS. We have no reason to desire it,

Thesaurus came: (v) arrive, come. depart: (v) go, deviate, decease, diverge, start, stray, wander, leave, die, vary, part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, arrive, enter, come, abide, conform, continue, remain, appear, converge, return. displeasure: (n) resentment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dislike, discontent, exasperation, disfavor, annoyance, offense, pique, disapproval. ANTONYMS: (n)

ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) satisfaction, pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, delight, contentment, survive, live, appear. sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve; equanimity, approval. doubting: (adj) doubtful, distrustful, (v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache, repentance, remorse; (adj, n) sadness, disbelieving, incredulous, doubt, skeptical, suspicious, sceptical, wary, misery; (adj, n, v) distress. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight, doubts, distrusting. ANTONYM: (adj) credulous. happiness, peace, hopefulness, judged: (n) judging; (adj) guilty, cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm, content; (v) rejoice. deliberate, legal, lawful. perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, unlicensed: (adj) unlawful, unlicenced, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass, unaccredited, illicit, unauthorized.

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Commended to our master, not to us: Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire, As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.% [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. TARSUS. A ROOM IN THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE. [Enter CLEON, the Governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA, and others.] CLEON. My Dionyza, shall we rest us here, And by relating tales of others' griefs, See if 'twill teach us to forqet our own? DIONYZA. That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; For who digs hills because they do aspire Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are; Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes, But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise. CLEON. O Dionyza, Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it, Or can conceal his hunger till he famish? Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep, Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder; That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want, They may awake their helps to comfort them.

Thesaurus conceal: (v) hide, disguise, bury, hurt, distracted, wretched, shocked, troubled. ANTONYMS: (adj) screen, cloak, smother, shield, suppress, mask, obscure; (n, v) veil. composed, content, euphoric, happy, ANTONYMS: (v) reveal, show, comforted, glad, joyful, collected, expose, divulge, clarify, uncover, unconcerned, unaffected. disclose, tell, admit, spotlight, flaunt. feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) digs: (n) lodgings, residence, lodging, entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) dig, housing, apartment, abode, feed, eat. ANTONYMS: (v) abstain, dwelling, digging, accommodation, starve; (n) snack. place. distressed: (adj) worried, distraught, fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, anxious, sad, disturbed, downcast, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch,

get, attract; (adj, n) feint. quench: (adj, v) extinguish, allay, slake; (v) appease, quash, put out, destroy, assuage, annihilate, calm, chill. ANTONYMS: (v) stimulate, light. slumber: (n, v) rest, doze, snooze, nap, drowse, repose, catnap; (v) be asleep, kip, take a nap; (n) siesta. tarsus: (n) Tarsal cartilage , tarsal plate, skeletal structure, tarse. wants: (n) need, necessities.

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I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years, And wanting breath to speak help me with tears.% DIONYZA. I'll do my best, sir. CLEON. This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom plenty held full hand, For riches strew'd herself even in the streets; Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds, And strangers ne'er beheld but wonder'd at; Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd, Like one another's glass to trim them by: Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight, And not so much to feed on as delight; All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great, The name of help grew odious to repeat. DIONYZA. O, 'tis too true. CLEON. But see what heaven can do! By this our change, These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air, Were all too little to content and please, Although they gave their creatures in abundance, As houses are defiled for want of use, They are now starved for want of exercise: Those palates who, not yet two sumMers younger, Must have inventions to delight the taste, Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it: Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes, Thought nought too curious, are ready now To eat those little darlings whom they loved.

Thesaurus beheld: (adj) visual. defiled: (adj) impure, polluted, dirty, maculate, debauched, contaminated, corrupt, violated, tainted, abusive, adulterate. ANTONYMS: (adj) hallowed, purified, sanctified, cleansed, untarnished. grew: (v) become, develop; (adj) grown. nought: (adj, n) nil, naught, zero; (n) cipher, cypher, nobody, aught, nix, null, nada; (adj) no.

nousle: (v) nousel. odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious; (adj) detestable, hideous, nasty, execrable, disgusting, abhorrent, abominable, heinous, forbidding. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant, delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice. o'er: (adv) on, upon, across. starved: (adj) famished, starving, ravenous, meager, emaciated, malnourished, thin, esurient, hungerly, lean, starveling.

ANTONYM: (adj) healthy. stored: (adj) saved, freighted, laden, filled, fraught, charged. strangers: (n) stranger. towers: (n) edifice. trim: (adj, v) tidy, spruce; (adj, n, v) dress; (n, v) cut, clip, garnish, lop; (adj) neat, orderly; (v) shave, embellish. ANTONYMS: (adj) scruffy, unkempt, sloppy, large, chubby, disorderly, overweight; (v) lengthen, develop, expand, lose.

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So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life: Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping; Here many sink, yet those which see them fall Have scarce strength left to give them burial. Is not this true? DIONYZA. Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.% CLEON. O, let those cities that of plenty's cup And her prosperities so largely taste, With their superflous riots, hear these tears! The misery of Tarsus may be theirs. [Enter a LORD.] LORD. Where's the lord governor? CLEON. Here. Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste, For comfort is too far for us to expect. LORD. We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore, A portly sail of ships make hitherward. CLEON. I thought as much. One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor; And so in ours: some neighbouring nation, Taking advantage of our misery, Math stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,

Thesaurus cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, drag out. ANTONYMS: (v) clip, portly: (adj) plump, stout, corpulent, posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet. curtail. heavy, obese, chubby, fleshy, hollow: (adj, n) blank; (n) cavity, misery: (adj, n) grief; (n, v) distress; (n) overweight; (adj, adv) burly, stately; depression, cave, dell; (adj) empty, (adv) plumply. ANTONYMS: (adj, affliction, agony, anguish, woe, false; (adj, n, v) concave; (n, v) hardship, evil, ill, infelicity, suffering. adv) thin, slim; (adj) skinny. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, ecstasy, scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient, excavate, dent, scoop. ANTONYMS: (adj) convex, sincere, true, full, cheerfulness, fun, hopefulness, peace, infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, meaningful, cramped, valid; (n) contentment, pleasure, wealth, sport, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, hump, bump, hill, lump. cheer. lengthen: (adj, v) elongate; (v) enlarge, neighbouring: (adj) adjoining, common, adequate, strong, usual, contiguous, vicinal, abutting; (v) prolong, draw, draw out, increase, extensive. expand, stretch, protract, continue, adjoin.

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To beat us down, the which are down already; And make a conquest of unhappy me, Whereas no glory's got to overcome.% LORD. That's the least fear; for, by the semblance Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace, And come to us as favourers, not as foes. CLEON. Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. But bring they what they will and what they can, What need we fear? The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there. Go tell their general we attend him here, To know for what he comes, and whence he comes, And what he craves. LORD. I go, my lord. [Exit.] CLEON. Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist; If wars, we are unable to resist. [Enter PERICLES with ATTENDANTS.] PERICLES. Lord governor, for so we hear you are, Let not our ships and number of our men Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes. We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre, And seen the desolation of your streets: Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,

Thesaurus amaze: (adj, v) astonish, surprise; (v) failure, defeat, loss, victory. dumbfound, baffle, astound, stagger, desolation: (n) devastation, misery, puzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, destruction, depression, grief, alarm; (adj) astonished. ANTONYM: wretchedness, bleakness, loneliness, (v) expect. waste, ruin; (adj, n) desertion. beacon: (n, v) guide; (n) cairn, flare, ANTONYMS: (n) ecstasy, joy, pharos, lighthouse, signal, light, productiveness, fertileness, watchtower, beacon light, buoy, sign. fecundity, cheer, fruitfulness, conquest: (n) defeat, triumph, preservation, hopefulness, conquering, achievement, reduction, cheerfulness. fired: (adj) discharged, unemployed, coup, rout, overthrow, subjection, mastery, success. ANTONYMS: (n) passionate, interested, heated,

enthusiastic, ablaze, zealous. flags: (n) streamer, streamers, sidewalk, trottoir, pavement, walk, footpath, bunting; (adj) wood pavement, flagstone. heard: (n) hearing. resist: (n, v) oppose, confront; (v) rebel, defy, revolt, endure, reject, protest, refuse, impede, fight back. ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, yield, assent, agree, suppress, favor, accept, attract, obey, welcome.

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But to relieve them of their heavy load; And these our ships, you happily may think Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within With bloody veins, expecting overthrow, Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.% ALL. The gods of Greece protect you! And we'll pray for you. PERICLES. Arise, I pray you, rise: We do not look for reverence, but for love, And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men. CLEON. The which when any shall not gratify, Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought, Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves, The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils! Till when, -- the which I hope shall ne'er be seen, -Your grace is welcome to our town and us. PERICLES. Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile, Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. [Exeunt.]

Thesaurus curse: (n, v) blight, plague; (n) (v) burden, aggravate, exacerbate, anchorage. anathema, blasphemy, malediction, needy: (adj) indigent, poor, harbor, enforce, include, upset, denunciation; (adj, v) beshrew; (v) impoverished, necessitous, depress. reverence: (n, v) respect, regard, fear, swear, ban, damn, vituperate. underprivileged, penniless, ANTONYMS: (n) blessing, worship, honor, esteem, adore; (n) impecunious, deficient, miserable, benediction, making; (v) deprived, poverty-stricken. deference, adoration, admiration, ANTONYMS: (adj) rich, affluent, awe. ANTONYMS: (n) despise, communicate. frown: (adj, v) lower; (adj, n) scowl; (n, independent, solvent, privileged, disrespect, irreverence, disdain, v) pout, grimace, glower, glare; (adj) disparagement, contempt; (v) satisfied. black looks, gloam, glout; (v) sulk, relieve: (n, v) ease, assuage, mitigate, dishonor. gnash. ANTONYM: (v) approve. alleviate, allay, calm, redress; (v) free, unthankfulness: (n) thanklessness, harbourage: (n) refuge, port, help, console, excuse. ANTONYMS: oblivion of benefits, ungratefulness.

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[Enter GOWER.] GOWER. Mere have you seen a mighty king His child, I wis, to incest bring; A better prince and benign lord, That will prove awful both in deed word. Be quiet then as men should be, Till he hath pass'd necessity. I'll show you those in troubles reign, Losing a mite, a mountain gain. The good in conversation, To whom I give my benison, Is still at Tarsus, where each man Thinks all is writ he speken can; And, to remember what he does, Build his statue to make him glorious: But tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?

Thesaurus benign: (adj, n) benevolent, nice, gentle, humane; (adj) kind, affable, amiable, charitable, merciful, soft, beneficial. ANTONYMS: (adj) unkind, malevolent, malign, unfortunate, severe, selfish, misanthropic, mean, malignant, malicious, hurtful. deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, doing, document, title, fact. ANTONYM: (n) failure.

mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, tidings: (n) intelligence, information, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, message, report, word, advice, large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. communication, dispute, wind, ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, statement, tiding. troubles: (n) dilemma, evils, harms, insignificant. mite: (n, v) bit; (n) atom, jot, hint, ills. writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, pinch, crumb, acarus, dole, grain, acarid, iota. judicial writ, injunction, order, act, statue: (n) figure, monument, prescription, scripture, writing, statuette, effigy, idol, sculpture, ukase. carving, bust, sphinx, icon, representation.

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DUMB %SHOW. [Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON talking with CLEON; all the train with them. Enter at another door a GENTLEMAN, with a letter to PERICLES; PERICLES shows the letter to CLEON; gives the MESSENGER a reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one door, and CLEON at another.] Good Helicane, that stay'd at home. Not to eat honey like a drone From others' labours; for though he strive To killen bad, keep good alive; And to fulfil his prince' desire, Sends word of all that haps in Tyre: How Thaliard came full bent with sin And had intent to murder him; And that in Tarsus was not best Longer for him to make his rest. He, doing so, put forth to seas, Where when men been, there's seldom ease; For now the wind begins to blow; Thunder above and deeps below Make such unquiet, that the ship Should house him safe is wreck'd and split; And he, good prince, having all lost, By waves from coast to coast is tost: All perishen of man, of pelf, Ne aught escapen but himself; Till fortune, tired with doing bad, Threw him ashore, to give him glad: And here he comes. What shall be next, Pardon old Gower, -- this longs the text. [Exit.]

Thesaurus ashore: (adv, pron) aground; (adj) beached, stranded; (adv) aland, on land, onto land, toward land. aught: (n) nil, zero, anything, ought, cypher, nix, cipher, naught, null, zip; (adj) any. bent: (adj) curved, arched, deformed, crooked; (n) propensity, inclination, fancy, leaning, flair, gift, curvature. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, inability, aversion; (adj) undetermined, undecided, uncurved, uncaring,

rigid, unbent. exit: (n) departure, door, egress, outlet, going, gate, way out; (v) leave, go, go out, die. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, entry, entrance, greeting; (v) arrive, come. fulfil: (v) complete, finish, accomplish, do, appease, carry out, execute, carry through, satisfy, perform, fill. honey: (n) dear, love, beloved, nectar, sweetheart, dearest, duck, molasses, sugar, baby; (v) sweeten.

intent: (n) idea, intention, design, spirit, meaning, import, goal, purpose; (adj, n) attentive; (adj) absorbed, engrossed. unquiet: (adj) restless, anxious, nervous, turbulent, unsettled, disturbed, fussy, tumultuous; (v) movable, saltatory, shifting. ANTONYM: (adj) quiet. waves: (n) brine, effect, salt water, deep, main, ocean, undulation, breakers, influence, emission, offing.

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SCENE I. PENTAPOLIS. AN OPEN PLACE BY THE SEA-SIDE.% [Enter PERICLES, wet.] PERICLES. Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man Is but a substance that must yield to you; And I, as fits my nature, do obey you: Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks, Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath Nothing to think on but ensuing death: Let it suffice the greatness of your powers To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes; And having thrown him from your watery grave, Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave. [Enter THREE FISHERMEN.] FIRST FISHERMAN. What, ho, Pilch! SECOND FISHERMAN. Ha, come and bring away the nets! FIRST FISHERMAN. What, Patch-breech, I say! THIRD FISHERMAN. What say you, master? FIRST FISHERMAN. Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll fetch thee with a wanion.

Thesaurus bereft: (adj, v) cut off; (adj) destitute, worldly, conceivable, human, geotic, greatness: (n) excellence, dimension, devoid, forlorn, void, deprived, secular, terrene, temporal, telluric, dignity, bulk, size, enormousness, sublunary. ANTONYMS: (adj) lovelorn, grieving, deserted, bigness, enormity, grandness, insufficient; (v) reft. ANTONYMS: magnitude, fame. ANTONYMS: (n) spiritual, divine, ethereal, immortal, (adj) fulfilled, supplied, happy, impossible, improbable, obscurity, austerity, commonness, consoled, satisfied. inconceivable, celestial. mildness, moderation, simplicity. crave: (v) covet, ask, want, beseech, ensuing: (adj) following, consequent, watery: (adj) moist, diluted, wet, implore, wish, long, entreat, desire, succeeding, later, subsequent, next, dilute, washy, thin, damp, fluid, fancy, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) successive, resulting, consequential, aqueous, weak, insipid. ensue, posterior. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, solid, dry, dislike, spurn, loathe, hate, detest, grant. antecedent, earlier, prior, soft, dehydrated, lively, dark, clear, earthly: (adj, n) terrestrial; (adj) carnal, preliminary. thick, hard.

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THIRD FISHERMAN. 'Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that were cast away before us even now.% FIRST FISHERMAN. Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when, well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves. THIRD FISHERMAN. Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them, they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. FIRST FISHERMAN. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. PERICLES. [Aside.] A pretty moral. THIRD FISHERMAN. But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have been that day in the belfry. SECOND FISHERMAN. Why, man? THIRD FISHERMAN. Because he should have swallowed me too; and when I had been in his belly, I would have kept such a jangling of the bells, that he should never have left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and parish, up again. But if the good King Simonides were of my mind, --

Thesaurus belfry: (n) apse, room, bell tower, head, pinnacle, belltower. fishes: (n) amphibians, Craniata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata, birds. fitly: (adv) appropriately, properly, fittingly, decorously, aptly, befittingly, readily, accommodately, expediently, suitly, justly. gaping: (adj, n) agape; (adj) vast, yawning, cavernous, discontinuous, wide, ajar, drowsy, hollow, wide

open; (adj, v) oscitant. ANTONYMS: (adj) cramped, narrow. grieved: (adj) sore, sad, sorry, sorrowful, upset, woeful, pained, affected, brokenhearted. jangling: (n) janglery; (adj) harsh, dissonant, discordant, strident, cacophonic, cacophonous. marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy, curiosity, phenomenon, amazement, miracle, portent, marl, surprise, admiration; (v) admire. ANTONYMS:

(v) disregard; (n) nightmare. mouthful: (n) gulp, morsel, swallow, gobbet, nip, bit, sip, piece, drink; (adj, n) handful; (adj) thimbleful. sexton: (n) beadle, verger, almoner, Anne sexton, Suisse, gravedigger, church officer, caretaker. steeple: (adj, n) spire, tower; (n) campanile, minaret, turret, dome; (adj) pyramid, column, obelisk, monument, pillar. tumbled: (adj) disordered.

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PERICLES. [Aside.] Simonides! THIRD FISHERMAN. We would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee of her honey.% PERICLES. [Aside.] How from the finny subjec of the sea These fishers tell the infirmities of men; And from their watery empire recollect All that may men approve or men detect! Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen. SECOND FISHERMAN. Honest! good fellow, what's that; If it be a day fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody look after it. PERICLES. May see the sea hath cast upon your coast. SECOND FISHERMAN. What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our way! PERICLES. A man whom both the waters and the wind, In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball For them to play upon, entreats you pity him; He asks of you, that never used to beg. FIRST FISHERMAN. No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our country of Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working. SECOND FISHERMAN. Canst thou catch any fishes, then?

Thesaurus approve: (v) adopt, allow, accept, acknowledge, ratify, let, agree, endorse, admit, support, applaud. ANTONYMS: (v) condemn, censure, disapprove, veto, forbid, invalidate, disallow, disrespect, deny, desecrate, oppose. begging: (n) mendicancy, request, plea; (v) asking, beg; (adj) beseeching, entreating, mendicant, imploring, suppliant, vagabond. calendar: (n) agenda, the calendar,

schedule, diary, journal, timetable, scallywag, scoundrel, varlet. pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n) program, Calendar year, system, organization; (n, v) list. mercy, commiseration, condolence, drunken: (adj) boozy, sottish, sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v) intoxicated, tipsy, tight, bibulous, sympathize, compassionate, feel sorry for. ANTONYMS: (n) blame, groggy, intemperate, blotto, canned, pissed. cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy. fishers: (n) family Mustelidae, ferrets, purge: (v) clean, expurgate, eradicate, Mustelidae. clear, scour, remove, purify, make gets: (n) getting. clean, liquidate; (n) catharsis, knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard, purification. ANTONYMS: (n, v) binge; (v) rehabilitate, castigate. crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag,

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PERICLES. I never practised it.% SECOND FISHERMAN. Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for 't. PERICLES. What I have been I have forgot to know; But what I am, want teaches me to think on: A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill, And have no more of life than may suffice To give my tongue that heat to ask your help; Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead, For that I am a man, pray see me buried. FIRST FISHERMAN. Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here; come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome. PERICLES. I thank you, sir. SECOND FISHERMAN. Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg. PERICLES. I did but crave. SECOND FISHERMAN. But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I shall 'scape whipping. PERICLES. Why, are your beggars whipped, then?

Thesaurus afore: (adv) ahead, along, before, forwards, formerly, beforehand, previously; (adj) erewhile, aforehand, theretofore, preceding. forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, authorize, stand. gown: (n) robe, clothing, cassock, vestment, wrapper, overclothes, outerwear, uniform, tunic, clothes; (v)

clothe. practised: (adj) practiced, expert, adept, good, trained, proficient, seasoned, skilful, skilled, skillful, versed. pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, invite, plead, beseech, appeal, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject. shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, bequeath, leave. starve: (v) fast, crave, lust, hunger,

thirst, perish, be hungry, deprive, benumb; (adj, v) pinch; (adj) gripe. ANTONYMS: (v) feed, eat. whipped: (v) whipt. whipping: (n) flagellation, beating, thrashing, licking, lashing, flogging, overcasting, debacle, slaughter, overlocking; (adj) snappy. wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) flourish, rise, rally.

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SECOND FISHERMAN. O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the net.% [Exit with THIRD FISHERMAN.] PERICLES. [Aside.] How well this honest mirth becomes their 1abour! FIRST FISHERMAN. Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are? PERICLES. Not well. FIRST FISHERMAN. Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and our king the good Simonides. PERICLES. The good King Simonides, do you call him? FIRST FISHERMAN. Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his peaceable reign and good government. PERICLES. He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects the name of good government. How far is his court distant from this shore? FIRST FISHERMAN. Marry sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her birth-day; and there are princes and knights come from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love. PERICLES. Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish to make one there.

Thesaurus beadle: (n) verger, catchpoll, almoner, mirth: (adj, n) merriment, jollity; (n) reign: (v) govern, command, predominate, dominate, prevail; (n) functionary, sacristan, sexton, janitor, amusement, happiness, delight, joy, Suisse, tipstaff, officer, George Wells hilarity, cheerfulness, festivity, dominance, dominion, control, beadle. gladness, exhilaration. ANTONYMS: government, administration, becomes: (v) become. (n) gloom, sadness, misery. kingdom. called: (adj) named, titled, chosen, peaceable: (adj) gentle, calm, pacific, shore: (n) coast, edge, beach, seashore, known as; (v) nempt, ycleped. amicable, quiet, friendly, inoffensive, stay, seaside, brace, margin; (n, v) desires: (n) requirements, needs. moderate, meek, serene; (adj, v) prop, land, buttress. ANTONYM: (n) fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune, peaceful. ANTONYMS: (adj) sea. tourney: (n) competition, tilt, personal narrative, life, journal. argumentative, belligerent, gains: (n) income, proceeds, profits, intemperate, quarrelsome, crooked, elimination tournament, round robin, winnings, receipts, revenue. disruptive, harsh, disordered. Turney, meet.

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FIRST FISHERMAN. O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man cannot get, he may lawfully deal for -- his wife' soul.% [Re-enter SECOND and THIRD FISHERMEN, drawing up a net.] SECOND FISHERMAN. Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and 'tis turned to a rusty armour. PERICLES. An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it. Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses, Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself, And though it was mine own, part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me, With this strict charge, even as he left his life. 'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield 'Twixt me and death;' -- and pointed to this brace; -For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity -The which the gods protect thee from! -- may defend thee.' It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it; Till the rough seas, that spare not any man, Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again: I thank thee for 't: my shipwreck now's no ill, Since I have here my father's gift in's will. FIRST FISHERMAN. What mean you' sir? PERICLES. To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth, For it was sometime target to a king; I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly, And for his sake I wish the having of it;

Thesaurus armour: (n) armature, buckler, armour lawfully: (adv) justly, legally, intractable, old, corroded, deaf to reason, exceptious, cantankerous; (v) plate, cataphract. rightfully, licitly, statutorily, fairly, bots: (n) bot, Botts. validly, de jure, officially, rightly, moldy, raw, mildewed. brace: (n, v) prop, strengthen, support, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) saved: (adj) protected, economized, invigorate; (n) strut, pair, duo, unlawfully, illegitimately. rescued, blessed. bitstock, tie; (v) clamp, bolster. rage: (adj, n, v) fume, bluster; (adj, n) shipwreck: (n, v) ruin; (adj, v) sink; (v) ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, sedate, wrath, indignation, frenzy, mania; (n) defeat, scuttle, destroy, fail; (n) hulk, loosen, flex. passion, anger, craze, exasperation; accident, wreckage, wrack, ruination. dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously, (n, v) storm. ANTONYMS: (n) sometime: (adv) someday, once, one day, formerly, sooner or later; (adj) darlingly, sweetly, petly, gentleness, composure, calm, expensively, belovedly, intimately, equanimity, pleasure, serenity. quondam, erstwhile, former, old, late; rusty: (adj) ancient, out of practice, (adj, adv) sometimes. highly, heartfeltly, lovely.

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And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign court, Where with it I may appear a gentleman; And if that ever my fortune's better, I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor.% FIRST FISHERMAN. Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady? PERICLES. I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms. FIRST FISHERMAN. Why, do'e take it, and the gods give thee good on 't! SECOND FISHERMAN. Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up this garment through the rough seams of the waters: there are certain condolements, certain vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from whence you had it. PERICLES. Believe't I will. By your furtherance I am clothed in steel; And, spite of all the rapture of the sea, This jewel holds his building on my arm: Unto thy value I will mount myself Upon a courser, whose delightful steps Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread. Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided Of a pair of bases. SECOND FISHERMAN. We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself. PERICLES. Then honour be but a goal to my will, This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill. [Exeunt.]

Thesaurus courser: (n) shorebird, steed, hunter, guise; (v) clothe, tog, raiment. spite: (n) malice, grudge, hatred, jewel: (n) gemstone, darling, thoroughbred, palfrey, nag, malevolence, rancour, venom, rancor, maliciousness, ill will, animosity; (n, Galloway, blood horse, beast of diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure, burden, beast; (adj) eagle. ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou, v) pique. ANTONYMS: (v) please; (n) furtherance: (n) advance, aid, support, precious stone; (adj) brilliant. benevolence, goodwill, love, rapture: (n) joy, bliss, delight, promotion, encouragement, affection, harmony. thrive: (adj, v) prosper; (v) flourish, improvement, lift, forwarding, happiness, exaltation, elation, fartherance, relief; (n, v) exultation, enchantment; (adj, n) grow, advance, blossom, succeed, advancement. ANTONYM: (n) enthusiasm; (n, v) transport; (adj, n, v) increase, bloom, get ahead, boom; passion. ANTONYMS: (n) (adj) luxuriate. ANTONYMS: (v) impediment. garment: (n, v) garb, apparel; (n) indifference, boredom, misery, deteriorate, fail, languish, struggle, habiliment, habit, gown, vest, things, gloom, agony, hell, despair. decrease.

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SCENE II. THE SAME. [A public way, or platform leading to the lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the reception of the KING, PRINCESS, LORDS, etc.] [Enter SIMONIDES, LORDS and ATTENDANTS.] SIMONIDES. Are the knights ready to begin the triumph? FIRST LORD. They are, my liege; And stay your coming to present themselves.% SIMONIDES. Return them, we are ready; and our daughter, In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat For men to see, and seeing wonder at. [Exit a LORD.] THALIARD. It pleaseth you1 my royal father, to express My commendations great, whose merit's less. SIMONIDES. It's fit it should be so; for princes are A model, which heaven makes like to itself: As jewels lose their glory if neglected, So princes their renowns if not respected. 'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain The labour of each knight in his device.

Thesaurus glory: (n) celebrity, brightness, honor, fineness, earrings, decoration. reception: (n) acceptance, admission, knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, receiving, greeting, getting, distinction, glorification, eclat, dignity; (n, v) halo, pride; (v) exult, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, salutation, acceptation, boast. ANTONYMS: (v) blasphemy, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub. comprehension; (adj, n) lament, profanity; (n) dishonor, lists: (n) circus, Flavian amphitheater, entertainment, party; (n, v) adoption. ANTONYMS: (n) dispatch, rejection. disrepute, ugliness, blame, criticism. cockpit, Corso, hippodrome, heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, triumph: (v) exult, prevail, crow, gymnasium, bear garden, rejoice, succeed; (n, v) glory, win, joy; Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian playground, race course, turf, Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) (n) victory, conquest, exultation. palestra. celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery. pavilion: (n) marquee, kiosk, tent, ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, jewels: (n) jewelry, gems, wealth, porch, pergola, gazebo, hall, canopy, sorrow, unhappiness, dud, sadness, loss, flop; (v) fail, lose, forfeit. hoops, Perrie, riches, studs, fortune, booth, place, rus in urbe.

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THALIARD. Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform.% [Enter a KNIGHT; he passes over, and his SQUIRE presents his shield to the PRINCESS.] SIMONIDES. Who is the first that doth prefer himself? THALIARD. A knight of Sparta, my renowned father; And the device he bears upon his shield Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun: The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.' SIMONIDES. He loves you well that holds his life of you. [The SECOND KNIGHT passes over.] Who is the second that presents himself? THALIARD. A prince of Macedon, my royal father; And the device he bears upon his shield Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady; The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.' [The THIRD KNIGHT passes over.] SIMONIDES. And what's the third? THALIARD. The third of Antioch; And his device, a wreath of chivalry; The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.' [The FOURTH KNIGHT passes over.]

Thesaurus bears: (n) fissiped, badgers, Carnivora, order Carnivora. honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, homage, celebrity, accolade, reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dishonor; (v) disrespect. motto: (n) catchword, adage, epigraph, maxim, slogan, device, proverb, saw, saying, shibboleth, aphorism. preserve: (v) maintain, keep, save, guard, hold, defend, uphold, keep

up; (n) jam, jelly, conserves. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, discontinue, damage, lose, attack, endanger, use, end. reaching: (n) reach, arrival, coming, accomplishment, outreach, advent, achievement, grasp, arriver, getting; (adj) suspicious. renowned: (adj, n) illustrious, glorious; (adj) famous, famed, notable, noted, eminent, distinguished, great, notorious, well-known.

ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, anonymous, undistinguished. shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover, guard, safeguard, buffer; (v) preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n) protection. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, exposure; (v) endanger, attack, reveal. vita: (n) memoir, resume. wreath: (n) crown, coronal, garland, chaplet, lei, circle, posy, fascia, cincture, girdle, laurels.

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SIMONIDES. What is the fourth? THALIARD. A burning torch that's turned upside down; The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.' SIMONIDES. Which shows that beauty hath his power and will, Which can as well inflame as it can kill.% [The FIFTH KNIGHT passes over.] THALIARD. The fifth, an hand environed with clouds, Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried; The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.' [The SIXTH KNIGHT, PERICLES, passes over.] SIMONIDES. And what's The sixth and last, the which the knight himself With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd? THALIARD. He seems to be a stranger; but his present is A wither'd branch, that's only green at top; The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.' SIMONIDES. A pretty moral; From the dejected state wherein he is, He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish. FIRST LORD. He had need mean better than his outward show Can any way speak in his just commend;

Thesaurus dejected: (adj) sad, depressed, low, downhearted, gloomy, down, unhappy, spiritless, sorrowful, miserable, melancholy. ANTONYMS: (adj) elated, happy, euphoric, joyous, encouraged, positive, enthusiastic, hopeful. graceful: (adj) beautiful, delicate, amiable, easy, fine, charming, fair, airy, becoming, lovely, lithe. ANTONYMS: (adj) inelegant, stocky, awkward, vigorous, jerky, ugly,

stilted, heavy, coarse, strenuous. Verbascum Thapsus, flannel mullein, inflame: (v) burn, fire, enkindle, incite, common mullein, blowtorch; (v) kindle, ignite, incense, arouse, heat, burn. agitate; (adj, v) irritate. ANTONYMS: touchstone: (n) standard, criterion, (v) dampen, blanch, inhibit, improve. benchmark, measure, norm, gauge, outward: (adj) external, apparent, check, yardstick, measuring stick, reagent; (n, v) test. extrinsic, outer, superficial, surface, outside, ostensible, foreign, outdoor; upside: (n) crest, crown, poll, top side, (adv) out. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) upper side, pate, round top, acme, inward; (adj) inner, internal, deep. summit, superlative, teetotum. torch: (n) brand, light, flambeau, wherein: (adv) in what, in which, burner, great mullein, blowlamp, where.

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For by his rusty outside he appears To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.% SECOND LORD. He well may be a stranger, for he comes To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished. THIRD LORD. And on set purpose let his armour rust Until this day, to scour it in the dust. SIMONIDES. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man. But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw Into the gallery. [Exeunt.] [Great shouts within, and all cry 'The mean knight!']

SCENE III. THE SAME. A HALL OF STATE: A BANQUET PREPARED. [Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, LORDS, ATTENDANTS, and KNIGHTS, from tilting.] SIMONIDES. Knights, To say you're welcome were superfluous. To place upon the volume of your deeds, As in a title-page, your worth in arms, Were more than you expect, or more than's fit, Since every worth in show commends itself.

Thesaurus fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown, idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v) deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull. ANTONYM: (n) savant. furnished: (adj) fitted, arranged, privileged, instruct, carrying weapons, equipt, enlightened; (v) provide, furnish, begone, beset. habit: (n) clothing, practice, dress, garb, attire, convention, character, ritual, addiction, clothes; (n, v) use. ANTONYM: (n) innovation.

inward: (adj) inner, intrinsic, internal, weirdly, marvelously, uncommonly, interior, intestine, inherent, domestic; extraordinarily, singularly, bizarrely. (adv) inwardly, inwards, in; (n) ANTONYMS: (adv) typically, innards. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) ordinarily, harmoniously. outward; (adj) outgoing, external. stranger: (n) foreigner, outsider, scour: (v) scrub, ransack, burnish, newcomer, outlander, immigrant, abrade, furbish, polish, search, intruder, unknown, tramontane, cleanse, graze, buff; (adj, v) flush. trespasser; (adj) foreign, strange. ANTONYM: (v) dirty. ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native, shouts: (n) cries. associate, resident, familiar. strangely: (adv) curiously, queerly, whipstock: (n) whip handle, unusually, funnily, peculiarly, whipstalk, deflection wedge.

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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast: You are princes and my guests.% THAISA. But you, my knight and guest; To whom this wreath of victory I give, And crown you king of this day's happiness. PERICLES. 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit. SIMONIDES. Call it by what you will, the day is yours; And here, I hope, is none that envies it. In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed; And you are her labour'd scholar. Come queen of the feast, -For, daughter, so you are, -- here take your place: Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace. KNIGHTS. We are honour'd much by good Simonides. SIMONIDES. Your presence glads our days; honour we love; For who hates honour hates the gods above. MARSHALL. Sir, yonder is your place. PERICLES. Some other is more fit. FIRST KNIGHT. Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes Envy the great nor do the low despise.

Thesaurus deserve: (v) rate, warrant, gain, earn, design. commonness. to deserve, demand, justify, bear; (n, framing: (n) frame, casing, sash, queen: (n) king, lady, sovereign, v) reward; (n) richly deserve, worth. doorcase, cornice, cowcatcher, monarch, dame, pansy, queer, faggot, despise: (v) disdain, loathe, coaming, deckle, clotheshorse, buffer, princess, fairy, czarina. scholar: (n) learner, academic, student, depreciate, abhor, dislike, detest, derrick. slight, hate; (n, v) contemn; (n) hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades. pundit, apprentice, intellectual, brain, contempt, deride. ANTONYMS: (v) merit: (n, v) deserve; (adj, n) exhibitioner, academician, professor, excellence, worth, desert; (n) virtue, disciple. ANTONYM: (n) teacher. respect, love, adore, appreciate, cherish, like, praise, accept. credit, significance, value, goodness, yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, fortune: (n) estate, fate, fluke, destiny, quality; (v) rate. ANTONYMS: (n) abroad, thither, further away, at that place; (adj) distant, yond, furious, luck, accident, means, assets, riches, demerit, disgrace, fault, abundance, doom. ANTONYM: (n) insignificance, mediocrity, fierce.

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PERICLES. You are right courteous knights.% SIMONIDES. Sit, sir, sit. PERICLES. By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts, These cates resist me, she but thought upon. THAISA. By Juno, that is queen of marriage, All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury, Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman. SIMONIDES. He's but a country gentleman; Has done no more than other knights have done; Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass. THAISA. To me he seems like diamond to glass. PERICLES. Yon king's to me like to my father's picture, Which tells me in that glory once he was; Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne, And he the sun, for them to reverence; None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights, Did vail their crowns to his supremacy: Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light: Whereby I see that Time's the king of men, He's both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

Thesaurus cates: (v) dainty, delicacy, viands; (n) acates. courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable, attentive, gracious, decorous, chivalrous, bland, thoughtful, urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite, boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff, improper, vulgar, unhelpful, neglectful, graceless. diamond: (n) lozenge, infield, square, rhombus, rectangle, ball field,

carbonado, baseball diamond; (adj) main. meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core, brilliant, jewel, bijou. gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, kernel, heart, substance, marrow, courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, crux, matter, beef. vail: (n) vale; (v) bounty, help, Easter heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, offering, oblation, Christmas box, selfish. alms, dole, donative, largess, Peter lesser: (adj) less, inferior, junior, Pence. viands: (n) provender, victuals, insignificant, petty, subordinate, smaller, secondary, lower, slighter, provisions, food, sustenance, small. ANTONYMS: (adj) major, commissariat, larder, cates, diet, primary, senior, superior, higher, nourishment, edible.

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SIMONIDES. What, are you merry, knights? KNIGHTS. Who can be other in this royal presence? SIMONIDES. Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim, -As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips, -We drink this health to you.% KNIGHTS. We thank your grace. SIMONIDES. Yet pause awhile: Yon knight doth sit too melancholy, As if the entertainment in our court Had not a show might countervail his worth. Note it not you, Thaisa? THAISA. What is it To me, my father? SIMONIDES. O attend, my daughter: Princes in this should live like god's above, Who freely give to every one that comes To honour them: And princes not doing so are like to gnats, Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at. Therefore to make his entrance more sweet, Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him. THAISA. Alas, my father, it befits not me

Thesaurus brim: (n) rim, periphery, verge, edge, lip, hem, rand, margin, perimeter, brink, limit. countervail: (v) counteract, compensate, neutralize, cancel, balance, offset, oppose, equilibrize, redeem, make up, recoup. entertainment: (n) distraction, diversion, enjoyment, show, pleasure, recreation, fun, reception, pastime; (adj, n) party; (n, v) regalement. ANTONYMS: (n) job,

boredom, discomfort. freely: (adv) loosely, frankly, openly, generously, independently, gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, free, sparely; (adj, adv) spontaneously. ANTONYMS: (adv) reluctantly, deceitfully, accurately, meagerly, parsimoniously, secretly, stingily, unwillingly; (adj) restricted. merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful, glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome, lighthearted, festive; (adj, n)

convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight. mistress: (n) dame, concubine, madame, inamorata, lady, lover, fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept woman, missis. pause: (n, v) halt, interruption, adjournment, delay, respite, stop; (adj, n, v) rest; (n) intermission, gap; (adj, v) discontinue; (v) hesitate. ANTONYMS: (n) decisiveness, continuation, start; (v) proceed.

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Unto a stranger knight to be so bold: He may my proffer take for an offence, Since men take women's gifts for impudence.% SIMONIDES. How! Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else. THAISA. [Aside] Now, by the gods, he could not please me better. SIMONIDES. And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him, Of whence he is, his name and parentage. THAISA. The king my father, sir, has drunk to you. PERICLES. I thank him. THAISA. Wishing it so much blood unto your life. PERICLES. I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely. THAISA. And further he desires to know of you, Of whence you are, your name and parentage. PERICLES. A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles; My education been in arts and arms; Who, looking for adventures in the world, Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men, And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.

Thesaurus adventures: (n) experiences, fortunes, confessions, journal, life, biography, autobiography, personal narrative. driven: (v) drive, impel, operate, propel; (adj) impelled, compulsive, motivated, involuntary, dynamic, successful; (n) drove. drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto, drunken, inebriated; (adj, n) inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac, drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, clearheaded; (n) teetotaler.

furthermore: (adv) besides, further, parentage: (n) family, extraction, also, more, again, additionally, in origin, descent, ancestry, lineage, addition, too, what is more; (adv, stock, birth, pedigree, kinship, conj) and; (adj, adv) likewise. bloodline. gentleman: (n) gent, Mr, male, pledge: (n, v) bond, gage, wager, patrician, sir, adult male, esquire, engage, promise, plight, guarantee, sahib, gentlemen; (adj) gentilhomme, bet, contract; (n) assurance; (v) covenant. ANTONYM: (v) redeem. gentlemanly. gifts: (n) money, generosity, proffer: (n, v) bid; (v) give, present, contributions, charity, caliber, aid, advance, extend, propose, provide, submit; (n) overture, proposition, munificence, bounty. ANTONYM: (n) meanness. suggestion. ANTONYM: (v) refuse.

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THAISA. He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles, A gentleman of Tyre, Who only by misfortune of the seas Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.% SIMONIDES. Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune, And will awake him from his melancholy. Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels. Even in your armours, as you are address'd, Will very well become a soldier's dance. I will not have excuse, with saying this, Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads Since they love men in arms as well as beds. [The KNIGHTS dance.] So, this was well ask'd, 'twas so well perform'd. Come, sir; Here is a lady which wants breathing too: And I have heard you nights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip; And that their measures are as exceltent. PERICLES. In those that practise them they are, my lord. SIMONIDES. O, that's as much as you would be denied Of your fair courtesy. [The KNIGHTS and LADIES dance.] Unclasp, unclasp: Thanks gentlemen, to all; all have done well. [To PERICLES.]

Thesaurus awake: (v) wake, awaken, realize, waken; (adj) alive, alert, attentive, conscious, keen, intelligent; (adj, v) broad awake. ANTONYMS: (adj) unconscious, sleeping, comatose, sleepy, relaxed; (v) deaden, lull, sleep. breathing: (adj) animate, live, living, respiratory, alive, above ground; (v) breathe, respire; (n) respiration, instant, moment. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, breathless, dead.

excuse: (n, v) pardon, palliate; (v) absolve, exculpate, condone, acquit, justify, forgive; (n) alibi, pretext, evasion. ANTONYMS: (v) blame, accuse, chide, discipline, include, reprimand, castigate; (n) accusation. gentlemen: (n) sirs, messieurs. harsh: (adj, v) sharp, bitter; (adj, n) grating, coarse, austere, discordant; (adj) grim, cruel, crude, unkind, stern. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, soft, harmonious, pleasant, lenient, kind,

melodious, sweet, mild, lush, friendly. misfortune: (n) accident, hardship, misadventure, disaster, calamity, mischance, catastrophe, mishap, bad luck, misery, affliction. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, bonus, opportunity, privilege, success, happiness. nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night. practise: (v) execute, practice, perform, exercise, drill, do, rehearse, learn, take, work out, read.

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But you the you the best. Pages and lights to conduct These knights unto their several lodging. [To PERICLES.] Yours, sir, We have given order to be next our own.% PERICLES. I am at your grace's pleasure. SIMONIDES. Princes, it is too late to talk of love; And that's the mark I know you level at: Therefore each one betake him to his rest; To-morrow all for speeding do their best. [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. TYRE. A ROOM IN THE GOVENOR'S HOUSE. [Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES.] HELICANUS. No, Escanes, know this of me, Antiochus from incest lived not free: For which, the most high gods not minding longer To withhold the vengeance that they had in store Due to this heinous capital offence, Even in the height and pride of all his glory, When he was seated in a chariot Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him, A fire from heavn came and shrivell'd up Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk,

Thesaurus betake: (v) wend, apply, address, measure. ANTONYMS: (adj) (adj) active, hastening; (adv) faster. vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal, accost, get, obtain, refer, acquire, aim, worthless, slight, minor, limited. loathing: (n, v) abomination, aversion, retaliation, requital, avengement, beget, attach. heinous: (adj) atrocious, grievous, evil, dislike, distaste; (n) hate, hatred, wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance; (n, v) avenge, resentment. wicked, flagrant, flagitious, abhorrence, detestation, nausea, monstrous, hateful; (adj, v) gross, ANTONYMS: (n) forgiveness, antipathy, execration. ANTONYMS: (n) love, adoration, liking, delight, nefarious, infamous. ANTONYM: acceptance. (adj) good. withhold: (v) reserve, keep, suppress, goodwill. inestimable: (adj) incalculable, minding: (adj) intent. deny, retain, hold, detain, restrain, speeding: (n) acceleration, quickening, abstain, check; (adj, v) stint. immeasurable, invaluable, infinite, ANTONYMS: (v) transmit, release, priceless, incomputable, valuable, hurrying, fastness, f number, precious, untold, costly, beyond scudding, focal ratio, amphetamine; show, lavish, add.

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That all those eyes adored them ere their fall Scorn now their hand should give them burial.% ESCANES. 'Twas very strange HELICANUS. And yet but justice; for though This king were great; his greatness was no guard. To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward. ESCANES. 'Tis very true. [Enter two or three LORDS.] FIRST LORD. See, not a man in private conference Or council has respect with him but he. SECOND LORD. It shall no longer grieve with out reproof. THIRD LORD. And cursed be he that will not second it. FIRST LORD. Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word. HELICANE. With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords. FIRST LORD. Know that our griefs are risen to the top, And now at length they overflow their banks. HELICANE. Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince your love. FIRST LORD. Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane;

Thesaurus adored: (adj) loved, respected, precious, idolized, idolised, acclaimed, blessed, favorite, dearly loved, beloved, venerated. cursed: (adj) damned, doomed, execrable, cussed, wretched, unlucky, accursed, blamed, blasted, confounded; (v) accurst. ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, honorable, nice, sweet, kine. noble: (adj, n) grand, glorious, patrician; (adj) imposing, impressive,

elevated, majestic, generous, high; (adj, v) dignified, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) shameful, humble, dishonorable, lowly, lowborn, disgraceful, unimpressive, ignoble, modest, petty; (n) lady. overflow: (n, v) flood, deluge; (n) inundation, excess, flooding, torrent, outpouring; (v) inundate, flow, drown, submerge. ANTONYMS: (n) lack, drought. prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign,

duke, king, chief, maharaja, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke. reward: (n, v) recompense, return, compensation, guerdon, wage, meed, prize, bribe; (v) repay, requite; (n) payment. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, sentence; (v) dishonor, penalize. risen: (v) uprise. shaft: (n) arrow, beam, axis, pole, arbor, dart, pillar, lance, well, axle; (adj, n) pit.

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But if the prince do live, let us salute him. Or know what ground's made happy by his breath. If in the world he live, we'll seek him there; And be resolved he lives to govern us, Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral, And leave us to our free election.% SECOND LORD. Whose death indeed 's the strongest in our censure: And knowing this kingdom is without a head, -Like goodly buildings left without a roof Soon fall to ruin, -- your noble self, That best know how to rulle and how to reign, We thus submit unto, -- our sovereign. ALL. Live, noble Helicane! HELICANUS. For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages: If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear. Take I your wish, I leap into the seas, Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease. A twelve month longer, let me entreat you to Forbear the absence of your king; If in which time expired, he not return, I shall with aged patience bear your yoke. But if I cannot win you to this love, Go search like nobles, like noble subjects, And in your search spend your adventurous worth; Whom if you find, and win unto return, You shall like diamonds sit about his crown. FIRST LORD. To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield;

Thesaurus adventurous: (adj) unsafe, venturesome, enterprising, plucky, audacious, bold, courageous, daring, brave, foolhardy, rash. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, prudent, careful, timid. diamonds: (n) hearts, ice, spades, sparkler, clubs. entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject. expired: (adj) lapsed, deceased,

invalid, dead, overdue, extinct, elapsed, out. forbear: (v) refrain, desist, help, tolerate, abide, eschew, endure, relinquish; (n) predecessor, progenitor, forebear. goodly: (adv) benignly, kindly, strongly, rightly, graciously, virtuously, soundly, uprightly; (adj) sizable, handsome, respectable. hourly: (adv) always, by the hour, daily, often, constantly, continually,

frequently; (adj) horary, continual, ephemeral; (n) an hour. mourn: (v) bewail, grieve, deplore, cry, bemoan, regret, distress, sad, wail, mourning, weep. ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice, celebrate, applaud. nobles: (n) landed gentry, upper class. salute: (v) greet, hail, kiss, accost, acknowledge, buss; (n) salutation, bow, salaam; (n, v) address, compliment.

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And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us, We with our travels will endeavour us.% HELICANUS. Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands: When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. [Exeunt.] SCENE V. PENTAPOLIS. A ROOM IN THE PALACE. [Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter at one door: the KNIGHTS meet him.] FIRST KNIGHT.] Good morrow to the good Simonides. SIMONIDES. Knights, from my daughter this I let you know, That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake A married life. Her reason to herself is only known, Which yet from her by no means can I get. SECOND KNIGHT. May we not get access to her, my lord? SIMONIDES. 'Faith, by no means; she hath so strictly tied Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible. One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery; This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd, And on her virgin honour will not break it. THIRD KNIGHT. Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. [Exeunt KNIGHTS.]

Thesaurus chamber: (n) hall, bedchamber, cavity, strive. amenably. travels: (n) actions, expedition. cell, council, compartment, assembly, knit: (adj, v) tie, lace; (v) plait, apartment, ventricle, dormitory, intertwine, bind, join, pucker, fasten, twelvemonth: (n) calendar year, civil interlace; (adj) stitch, knitted. cubicle. year, financial year, common year, clasp: (n, v) embrace, hug, grip, grasp, morrow: (n) morning, future, mean amount of time, time period, period squeeze, clutch, buckle, brooch; (adj, solar day, day. of time, bissextile year, class, yr, n, v) pin; (v) stick, cling. strictly: (adv) rigorously, severely, period. ANTONYMS: (v) unbuckle, loose, exactly, correctly, stringently, sternly, virgin: (adj) pure, new, chaste, unclasp, relax, detach. rigidly, precisely, closely, literally, innocent, fresh, untouched, intact, endeavour: (n) attempt, effort, pains, harshly. ANTONYMS: (adv) loosely, virginal; (adj, n) vestal; (n) maid, girl. trial, try, enterprise, striving, leniently, lightheartedly, negligently, ANTONYMS: (adj) defiled, sullied. contribution, braving; (v) exert, inaccurately, unlawfully, falsely,

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SIMONIDES. So, They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter: She tells me here, she'll wed the stranger knight. Or never more to view nor day nor light. 'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine; I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in it, Not minding whether I dislike or no! Well, I do commend her choice; And will no longer have it delay'd. Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.% [Enter PERICLES.] PERICLES. All fortune to the good Simonides! SIMONIDES. To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you For your sweet music this last night: I do Protest my ears were never better fed With such delightful pleasing harmony. PERICLES. It is your grace's pleasure to commend; Not my desert. SIMONIDES. Sir, you are music's master. PERICLES. The worst of all her scholars, my good lord. SIMONIDES. Let me ask you one thing: What do you think of my daughter, sir?

Thesaurus beholding: (n) fusion, seeing, visual aversion, distaste; (v) detest. gratifying, lovely, pleasant, ANTONYMS: (n) liking, fondness, perception, look. charming, delightful, inviting. commend: (v) approve, exalt, acclaim, taste, attraction, enjoyment, ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, preference, longing; (v) like, enjoy, praise, applaud, recommend, unwelcome, infuriating, endorse, entrust, extol, compliment, approve, adore. disappointing, straight, hurtful, cite. ANTONYMS: (v) rebuke, dissemble: (v) feign, assume, conceal, maddening, displeasing, discordant, criticize, censure, reproach, keep, disguise, camouflage, dissimulate, harsh, frustrating. worst: (v) whip, trounce, defeat, chastise, reprimand, deny, disparage, act, hide, sham, pretend, mask. ANTONYMS: (v) show, demonstrate, overcome, vanquish, pip, rack up; refuse, smear. dislike: (n) disapproval, disaffection, (adj, v) best, rout; (adj) floor, lick. expose, reveal. pleasing: (adj, n) acceptable; (adj) ANTONYMS: (adj, n) best; (adj) antipathy, disdain, disfavor, revulsion; (n, v) hate, disinclination, amiable, lovable, amusing, attractive, highest, first, secondary.

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PERICLES. A most virtuous princess.% SIMONIDES. And she is fair too, is she not? PERICLES. As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. SIMONIDES. Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you; Ay, so well, that you must be her master, And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it. PERICLES. I am unworthy for her schoolmaster. SIMONIDES. She thinks not so; peruse this writing else. PERICLES. [Aside.] A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre! 'Tis the king's subtilty to have my life. O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord, A stranger and distressed gentleman, That never aim'd so high to love your daughter, But bent all offices to honour her. SIMONIDES. Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art A villain. PERICLES. By the gods, I have not: Never did thought of mine levy offence; Nor never did my actions yet commence A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.

Thesaurus entrap: (v) enmesh, catch, ensnare, Lutjanus apodus, housemaster. trap, decoy, deceive, entice, inveigle, subtilty: (n) thinness, equivocation, delude, frame; (n, v) tangle. nicety, quibble, quiddit, quillet, ANTONYMS: (v) liberate, clear, free. quodlibet, subtility. offices: (n) kitchen, pantry, scullery. unworthy: (adj) undeserving, base, peruse: (v) examine, look through, disgraceful, ignoble, low, inspect, study, leaf, flip, flick, learn, contemptible, despicable, ugly, review, to read, browse. ANTONYM: unmerited, unseemly, shameful. (v) skim. ANTONYMS: (adj) deserving, schoolmaster: (n) master, preceptor, valuable, honorable, estimable, pedagogue, headmaster, dominie, reputable. virtuous: (adj) upright, pure, teacher, principal, educator, head,

righteous, good, moral, just, honorable, honest, respectable, decent, pious. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sinful, corrupt, impure, unethical, decadent, degenerate, irreverent. wondrous: (adj) marvelous, miraculous, marvellous, astonishing, tremendous, fantastic, phenomenal, extraordinary, rattling; (adv) wonderfully, marvellously.

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SIMONIDES. Traitor, thou liest.% PERICLES. Traitor! SIMONIDES. Ay, traitor; PERICLES. Even in his throat -- unless it be the king -That calls me traitor, I return the lie. SIMONIDES. [Aside.] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage. PERICLES. My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish'd of a base descent. I came unto your court for honour's cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy. SIMONIDES. No? Here comes my daughter, she can witness it. [Enter THAISA.] PERICLES. Then, as you are as virtuous as fair, Resolve your angry father, if my tongue Did e'er solicit, or my hand subscribe To any syllable that made love to you.

Thesaurus applaud: (v) praise, eulogize, cheer, conformist; (n) stalwart; (adj) syllable, speech sound, syllabe, compliant, content, obedient; (v) extol, hail, admire, clap, commend, language unit. traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, approve, compliment, exalt. agree, obey. ANTONYMS: (v) criticize, disparage, solicit: (v) crave, request, petition, ask, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) lament, hiss, censure, commiserate, pray, importune, require, apply, implore, demand; (adj, v) court. condemn. insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: e'er: (adv) ever, forever. sword: (n) blade, sabre, brand, (n) loyalist, patriot. rebel: (v) mutiny, disobey, arise; (adj, broadsword, falchion, cutlass, saber, witness: (n, v) testimony, attest, n) nonconformist, insurgent; (adj, n, evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness, steel, glaive, backsword, cutlas. v) renegade; (n, v) revolt; (adj) syllable: (n) antepenultimate, onlooker, observer; (v) observe, mutineer; (n) traitor, insurrectionist, notice, see, view. ANTONYMS: (v) antepenult, penultima, penultimate, anarchist. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) articulate, utter, linguistic unit, solfa deny, participate, refute.

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THAISA. Why, %sir, say if you had, Who takes offence at that would make me glad? SIMONIDES. Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory? [Aside.] I am glad on't with all my heart. -I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection. Will you, not having my consent, Bestow your love and your affections Upon a stranger? [Aside.] who, for aught I know, May be, nor can I think the contrary, As great in blood as I myself. -Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame Your will to mine, -- and you, sir, hear you, Either be ruled by me, or I will make you -Man and wife: Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too: And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy; And for a further grief, -- God give you joy! -What, are you both pleased? THAISA. Yes, if you love me, sir. PERICLES. Even as my life my blood that fosters it. SIMONIDES. What, are you both agreed? BOTH. Yes, if it please your majesty.

Thesaurus affections: (n) bosom. magnificence, stateliness, greatness, subjection: (n) conquest, oppression, contrary: (adj, n) contradictory, king, royalty, highness. captivity, bondage, confinement, reverse; (adj) adverse, conflicting, ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, servitude, dependence, enslavement, unfavorable, perverse, cross, simplicity. slavery, repression, subjugation. peremptory: (adj) imperious, tame: (v) break, subdue, soften, disobedient, alien, different, obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj) similar, commanding, dictatorial, domesticate; (adj) meek, docile, bland, domestic, gentle, slow; (adj, v) harmonious, helpful, obliging, overbearing, decisive, magisterial; moderate. ANTONYMS: (adj) compatible, complaisant, concordant, (adj, v) authoritative, dogmatic, flat, absolute; (v) decided. ANTONYM: parallel, agreeable, cooperative, exciting, bright, unmanageable, (adj) polite. favorable. interesting, untamed, inspiring, majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, ruled: (adj) lined, lawful, subordinate, brilliant, colorful, rebellious, lively. nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, subject.

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SIMONIDES. It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed; And then with what haste you can get you to bed.% [Exeunt.]

Thesaurus haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, rush; (n) celerity, expedition, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, patience, forethought, caution.

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[Enter GOWER.] GOWER. Now sleep yslaked hath the rout; No din but snores the house about, Made louder by the o'er-fed breast Of this most pompous marriage-feast. The cat, with eyne of burning coal, Now couches fore the mouse's hole; And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, E'er the blither for their drouth. Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, Where, by the loss of maidenhead, A babe is moulded. Be attent, And time that is so briefly spent With your fine fancies quaintly eche: What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech. DUMB SHOW. [Enter, PERICLES and SIMONIDES, at one door, with ATTENDANTS; a MESSENGER meets them, kneels, and gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES

Thesaurus babe: (n) infant, baby, chick, sweetie, suckling, nursling, child, newborn, chit, girl, darling. ANTONYMS: (n) grownup, adult, adolescent. blither: (v) blether, babble, blather, gibber, piffle, gabble, maunder, chatter, twaddle, prate, prattle. crickets: (n) order Orthoptera, Gryllidae, family Gryllidae. dumb: (adj) mute, speechless, dense, dim, silent, dull, slow, stupid, inarticulate, foolish, obtuse.

ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, pompous: (adj) grand, arrogant, communicative, intelligent, ostentatious, affected, pretentious, loquacious, sharp, smart, speaking, overblown, showy, inflated, majestic, lordly; (adj, prep) bloated. brilliant, talkative. fancies: (n) stock. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, fore: (adv) ahead, before; (adj, adv) straightforward, unceremonious, forward; (n) bow, head, forefront, quiet, unassuming, natural, stem; (adj, n) front; (adj) anterior, deferential, relaxed, meek. foremost, frontal. ANTONYMS: (adv) quaintly: (adv) unusually, oddly, aft, behind, rear; (adj) back. curiously, weirdly, singularly, gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, peculiarly, queerly, strangely, accord. outlandishly, charmingly, pleasingly.

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shows %it SIMONIDES; the LORDS kneel to him. Then enter THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse. The KING shows her the letter; she rejoices: she and PERICLES take leave of her father, and depart, with LYCHORIDA and their ATTENDANTS. Then exeunt SIMONIDES and the rest.] GOWER. By many a dern and painful perch Of Pericles the careful search, By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence That horse and sail and high expense Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre, Fame answering the most strange inquire, To the court of King Simonides Are letters brought, the tenour these: Antiochus and his daughter dead; The men of Tyrus on the head Of Helicanus would set on The crown of Tyre, but he will none: The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress; Says to 'em, if King Pericles Come not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Will take the crown. The sum of this, Brought hither to Pentapolis Y-ravished the regions round, And every one with claps can sound, 'Our heir-apparent is a king! Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?' Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre: His queen with child makes her desire --

Thesaurus answering: (adj) respondent, (n) disobedience, uprising, responsive, according, agreeing, revolution, outbreak, responsory; (n) respondency. insubordination, defiance, rising; (v) hence: (adv) consequently, for that rebel, rise. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, reason, therefore, thereby, away, obedience. thus, for, then, because, henceforth, opposing: (adj) conflicting, as a result. antagonistic, opponent, contrary, kneel: (v) genuflect, cringe, stoop, bob, adverse, hostile, antithetical, anti, contradictory, rival; (prep) against. cry for quarter, dip, duck, humble oneself; (n) kneeling, knee, ANTONYMS: (adj) compatible, movement. consistent, allied, accepting. mutiny: (n, v) insurrection, rebellion; quest: (n) pursuit, investigation,

exploration, chase, research, inquest; (n, v) probe, hunt, inquiry, examination; (v) call for. regions: (n) area, region, parts. sail: (n, v) cruise, float, voyage, sheet; (v) navigate, run, glide, drift, cross, sweep, travel. ANTONYM: (v) struggle. stead: (n) behalf, room, lieu, spot, location, station, space, seat, position, office, locality.

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Which who shall cross? -- along to go: Omit we all their dole and woe: Lychorida, her nurse, she takes, And so to sea. Their vessel shakes On Neptune's billow; half the flood Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood Varies again; the grisled north Disgorges such a tempest forth, That, as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives: The lady shrieks, and well-a-near Does fall in travail with her fear: And what ensues in this fell storm Shall for itself itself perform. I nill relate, action may Conveniently the rest convey; Which might not what by me is told. In your imagination hold This stage the ship, upon whose deck The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak. [Exit.]

SCENE I.% [Enter PERICLES, on shipboard.] PERICLES. Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges, Which wash forth both heaven and hell; and thou that hast Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,

Thesaurus appears: (n) appearing. pittance, grief, distribution, blow, reproach, chide, blame, reproof, billow: (n, v) wave, surge, swell; (n) lecture, check; (v) castigate, berate; care, anxiety, cark, charity. sea, cloud; (v) balloon, heave, zoom, duck: (adj, n, v) plunge; (v) douse, (n) admonition. ANTONYMS: (n, v) roll, inflate, bloat. ANTONYMS: (n) dodge, dive, evade, circumvent, bob, praise, compliment; (v) commend, trough; (v) flatten, collapse, deflate. shirk; (adj, n) darling; (adj, v) souse; acknowledge, approve; (n) approval. bind: (adj, v) attach, fix, fasten, affix; (n) canvas. ANTONYMS: (v) travail: (n, v) labor, toil, labour, grind, (n) band; (v) bandage, lace, fetter, confront, rise, jump, meet, accept; (n) childbirth, confinement; (v) drudge, moil; (n) effort, sweat, exertion. bundle, truss, combine. drake. ANTONYMS: (v) untie, unbind, free, keel: (n) foot, hoof, carina, root, fin vessel: (n) ship, pot, jar, duct, vas, keel; (v) careen, cool, pitch, tumble, unfasten, unravel, permit, loosen, boat, craft, container, bowl, barrel, loose, let; (n, v) release; (n) pleasure. droop, flag. canal. dole: (v) dispense; (n) mite, grant, rebuke: (n, v) reprimand, rebuff,

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Having call'd them from the deep! O, still Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida, How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously; Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle Is as a whisper in the ears of death, Unheard. Lychorida! - Lucina, O Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle To those that cry by night, convey thy deity Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs Of my queen's travails! [Enter LYCHORIDA, with an INFANT.] Now, Lychorida! LYCHORIDA. Here is a thing too young for such a place, Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I Am like to do: take in your aims this piece Of your dead queen.% PERICLES. How, how, Lychorida! LYCHORIDA. Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm. Here's all that is left living of your queen, A little daughter: for the sake of it, Be manly, and take comfort. PERICLES. O you gods! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, And snatch them straight away? We here below Recall not what we give, and therein may Use honour with you.

Thesaurus conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfmanful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv) stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit. patroness: (n) supporter, sponsor, esteem, pride, assumption, egotism, manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely; (adj, adv) stately. ANTONYMS: (adj) fancy, haughtiness, conception, benefactress, support, donor, fairy caprice, quip. ANTONYMS: (n) weak, unmanly, cowardly; (adv) godmother. snatch: (n, v) pinch, snap, catch, grip; humility, timidity, selflessness, unmanfully. midwife: (n) accoucheur, oculist, (v) abduct, clutch, kidnap, seize, jerk, humbleness, reserve. deafening: (adj) earsplitting, howdy, obstetrician, aurist; (v) capture, pluck. ANTONYM: (v) thunderous, shrill, piercing, noisy, midwive. release. massive, roaring, enormous, gigantic, nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile, brisk, sulphurous: (adj) stifling, acerb, hot, tremendous; (v) thundering. spry, alert, expeditious, energetic, sulphureous, infernal, brimstony, ANTONYM: (adj) tranquil. clever, lithe; (adj, v) light. virulent, caustic, containing acid, manly: (adj) manlike, masculine, ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy, sultry, burning hot.

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LYCHORIDA. Patience, good sir. Even for this charge.% PERICLES. Now, mild may be thy life! For a more blustrous birth had never babe: Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for Thou art the rudliest welcome to this world That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows! Thiou hast as chiding a nativity As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make, To herald thee from the womb: even at the first Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit, With all thou canst find here, Now, the good gods Throw their best eyes upon't! {Enter two SAILORS.] FIRST SAILOR. What courage, sir? God save you! PERICLES. Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw; It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love Of ths poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer, I would it would be quiet. FIRST SAILOR. Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou? Blow, and split thyself. SECOND SAILOR. But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss the moon, I care not. FIRST SAILOR. Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high, the wind is loud and will not lie till the ship be cleared of the dead.

Thesaurus brine: (n) deep, sea, ocean, salt water, sunny, cloudless. herald: (n) forerunner, courier, saltwater, seawater, non freeze liquid, watery waste, solution; (adj, v) messenger; (v) declare, foretell, pickle; (v) souse. announce, bode, proclaim, introduce, chiding: (n) scolding, rebuke, blame, foreshadow; (n, v) augur. ANTONYMS: (v) follow; (n) reprehension, rap, censure, upbraiding, wigging, brawl, successor. admonition; (adv) scoldingly. infant: (n) child, babe, minor, nursling, cloudy: (adj) dull, gloomy, nebulous, youngster, chick, toddler, suckling, kid, pappoose; (adj, n) juvenile. murky, dark, turbid, foggy, muddy, mild: (adj, n) kindly, gracious; (adj) misty, sunless, vaporous. ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, bright, easy, lenient, benign, docile, humble,

clement, sweet, balmy, delicate. ANTONYMS: (adj) extreme, pungent, spicy, sharp, severe, scathing, incisive, hot, powerful, great, passionate. overboard: (adj) exorbitant, rabid. portage: (n, v) carry; (n) transportation, shipping, cartage, delivery, transference, haulage, porterage, carting, cart track; (adj) moving.

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PERICLES. That's your superstition.% FIRST SAILOR. Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it has been still observed; and we are strong in custom. Therefore briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight. PERICLES. As you think meet. Most wretched queen! LYCHORIDA. Here she lies, sir. PERICLES. A terrible childben hast thou had, my dear; No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements Forgot thee utterly; nor have I time To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze; Where, for a monument upon thy bones, And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida. Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman. [Exit LYCHORIDA.] SECOND SAILOR. Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked and bitumed ready. PERICLES. I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?

Thesaurus belching: (n) eructation, burp, (adv) divinely, hieratically, approachable, sociable, hospitable, theocratically. ANTONYM: (adj) burping. kindly, nice, outgoing, pleasant. coffer: (n) box, chest, case, caisson, whiles: (n) while. secular. satin: (adj) glossy, sleek, velvet, down, wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful, casket, trunk, safe, strongbox, treasury, crate, coffers. silky, silklike, silken, satiny, velure; sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic, humming: (adj) droning, zippy, (n) cloth, fabric. piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor, unhappy, forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) reeking, bustling, grunting, stinking; unfriendly: (adj) inimical, distant, (n) buzzing, vocalizing, sound, adverse, antagonistic, unkind, cold, fine, strong, fortunate, overjoyed, inhospitable, icy; (adj, adv) chilly; (adj, nice, admirable, good, cheery, joyous, murmur, growling. priestly: (adj) ministerial, hieratic, v) unfavorable; (adv) hostilely. lucky, comfortable. ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, sacerdotal, priestlike, hieratical, religious, theocratic, ecclesiastical; welcoming, warm, amiable,

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SECOND SAILOR. We are near Tarsus.% PERICLES. Thither, gentle mariner, Alter thy course for Tyre. When, canst thou reach it? SECOND SAILOR. By break of day, if the wind cease. PERICLES. O, make for Tarsus! There will I visit Cleon, for the babe Cannot hold out to Tyrus there I'll leave it At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner: I'll bring the body presently. [Exeunt.]

SCENE II. EPHESUS. A ROOM IN CERIMON'S HOUSE. [Enter CERIMON, with a SERVANT, and some PERSONS who have been shipwrecked.] CERIMON. Philemon, ho! [Enter PHILEMON.] PHILEMON. Doth my lord call? CERIMON. Get fire and meat for these poor men: 'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.

Thesaurus cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit, nursing: (n) attention, tending, care, terminate, break, break off, close, breast feeding, treatment, nurture, conclude, discontinue, abstain. suckling, nurse, feeding, treat, ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start, rearing. presently: (adv) instantly, directly, commence, persist, stay. gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind, currently, before long, shortly, soon, affable, balmy, mild, feeble, now, at present, readily, just, compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) actually. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, tame. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, loud, now, formerly. stormy: (adj, n) inclement, boisterous, fierce, caustic, violent, rough, rough, severe; (adj) fierce, windy, hardhearted, abrupt, heavy, steep, sheer. wild, dirty, foul, tempestuous,

blustering. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, still, pleasant, fair, mild, relaxed. turbulent: (adj, n) tempestuous, rough, stormy, boisterous, rude; (adj) furious, disorderly, violent, wild, noisy, riotous. ANTONYMS: (adj) peaceful, untroubled, manageable, moderate, obedient, settled, still, relaxed, orderly, mild. visit: (v) frequent, attend, call, view, gossip, jaw, inspect, haunt; (n, v) tour, chat; (n) sojourn.

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SERVANT. I have been in many; but such a night as this, Till now, I ne'er endured.% CERIMON. Your master will be dead ere you return; There's nothing can be minister'd to nature That can recover him. [To PHILEMON.] Give this to the 'pothecary, And tell me how it works. [Exeunt all but CERIMON.] [Enter two GENTLEMEN.] FIRST GENTLEMAN. Good morrow. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Good morrow to your lordship. CERIMON. Gentlemen, Why do you stir so early? FIRST GENTLEMAN. Sir, Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea, Shook as the earth did quake; The very principals did seem to rend, And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house. SECOND GENTLEMAN. That is the cause we trouble you so early; 'Tis not our husbandry.

Thesaurus bleak: (adj) austere, bare, barren, cold, housing, quarters, residence, pad, dreary, murky, black, desolate, raw, living quarters, launchpad. bald, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, lordship: (n) ownership, supremacy, lush, sunny, hopeful, encouraging, domain, dominance, manor, worship, cheery, bright, sheltered, soulful, authority, power, dynasty, cozy, populated. grandeeship, headship. husbandry: (n) cultivation, farming, quit: (adj, n, v) leave; (v) go, drop, economy, frugality, culture, break, cease, give up, depart, end, conservation, thrift, tillage, dairying, discontinue; (adj, v) discharge; (n, v) part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy, horticulture, gardening. lodgings: (n) digs, accommodation, enter, maintain, start, come, arrive. stir: (adj, n, v) move, bustle; (v) rouse, domiciliation, lodging, billet,

arouse, affect, agitate, inspire; (adj, n) movement; (n) commotion, excitement, disturbance. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, retire, stultify, bore, steady, stifle, suppress; (n) quiet, peace; (n, v) calm. topple: (v) collapse, tumble, fall, stumble, overthrow, upset, overturn, pitch, capsize, tumble down, oust. ANTONYMS: (v) place, put, straighten, install, right.

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CERIMON. O, you say well.% FIRST GENTLEMAN. But I much marvel that your lordship, having Rich tire about you, should at these early hours Shake off the golden slumber of repose. 'Tis most strange, Nature should be so conversant with pain. Being thereto not compell'd. CERIMON. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have, Together with my practice, made familiar To me and to my aid the blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; And I can speak of the disturbances That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me A more content in course of true delight Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, Or tie my treasure up in silken bags, To please the fool and death. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth Your charity, and hundreds call themselves Your creatures, who by you have been restored:

Thesaurus blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate, beatified, blissful, blame, blasted, blamed, golden, glorious, favored. conversant: (adj) proficient, knowing, informed, familiar, versed, learned, cognizant, conscious, erudite, experienced, skilled. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, oblivious, inexperienced. darken: (v) blur, blind, confuse, dim, shade, overcast, fog, overshadow; (adj, v) obscure; (n, v) conceal,

shadow. ANTONYMS: (v) illuminate, whiten, lighten, clarify, disclose. endowments: (n) beneficence, accomplishments, advantage. nobleness: (n) dignity, generosity, magnanimity, nobility, greatness, grandeur, stateliness, civil honors, goodness, glory, glorify. silken: (adj) glossy, silk, sleek, soft, satiny, satin, shiny, smooth, slick, downy, mild. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, dull, rough.

thereto: (adv) thereunto, moreover; (adj) likeness, accurate, coincidence, correct, correctness, deportment, detail, exact, expected. tire: (n, v) bore, jade; (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, harass, fag, weary, wear, pall, prostrate; (n) tyre. ANTONYMS: (v) interest, invigorate, energize. tottering: (adj) unsteady, ramshackle, easily shaken, tottery, sick, rocky, broken, trembling, cracked; (v) drooping; (n) convulsion.

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And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay.% [Enter two or three SERVANTS with a chest.] FIRST SERVANT. So; lift there. CERIMON. What is that? FIRST SERVANT. Sir, even now Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest: 'Tis of some wreck. CERIMON. Set 't down, let's look upon 't. SECOND GENTLEMAN. 'Tis like a coffin, sir. CERIMON. Whate'er it be, 'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight: If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold, 'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us. SECOND GENTLEMAN. 'Tis so, my lord. CERIMON. How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed! Did the sea cast it up? FIRST SERVANT. I never saw so huge a billow, sir, As toss'd it upon shore.

Thesaurus cast: (n, v) throw, stamp, form, fling, cast, flip; (v) agitate, hurl, shake, restriction, duress, enforcement, shape, figure; (v) shed, pitch, chuck; pressure, limitation; (adj, n) reserve. convulse, discard. ANTONYM: (v) (n) casting, appearance. ANTONYMS: (n) freedom, boldness, catch. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, receive, upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up, liberation, option, openness, onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on subtract, reject, take, gather, catch, persuasion. purse: (n) bag, pouch, money, that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at. retain, keep. coffin: (n) casket, sarcophagus, chest, handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook, wreck: (n, v) smash, shipwreck, wrack; pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease. (v) damage, spoil, demolish, destroy, cask, hearse, urn, carriage, automobile, catafalque; (v) to drive a stomach: (adj, v) brook, digest; (v) devastate; (n) crash, ruins, destruction. ANTONYMS: (v) build, nail in one's coffin, bury. endure, stand, abide, bear, suffer, constraint: (n) compulsion, force, tolerate, take; (n) abdomen, appetite. preserve, create, repair, assist; (n) toss: (n, v) throw, fling, pitch, chuck, restraint, confinement, obligation, creation.

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CERIMON. Wrench it open; Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.% SECOND GENTLEMAN. A delicate odour. CERIMON. As ever hit my nostril. So up with it. O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse! FIRST GENTLEMAN. Most strange! CERIMON. Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured With full bags of spices! A passport too! Apollo, perfect me in the characters! [Reads from a scroll.] 'Here I give to understand, If e'er this coffin drive a-land, I, King Pericles, have lost This queen, worth all our mundane cost. Who her, give her burying; She was the daughter of a king: Besides this treasure for a fee, The gods requite his charity!' If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Most likely, sir. CERIMON. Nay, certainly to-night; For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough

Thesaurus corse: (n) cadaver, dry bones, skeleton, scent, bouquet, savour, nose, flavor, Corsica, carcass, bones. smack, redolence. mundane: (adj) earthly, terrestrial, passport: (n) permit, instrument, worldly, everyday, commonplace, protection, identification, warrant, humdrum, ordinary, conventional, safeguard, method, means, license, telluric, usual, carnal. ANTONYMS: device, key. (adj) extraordinary, spiritual, exotic, potent: (adj) forcible, influential, inspiring. forceful, cogent, hard, mighty, nostril: (n) flue, chimney, funnel, persuasive, strong, efficacious; (adj, n) weasand, nozzle, port, throat, effective, effectual. ANTONYMS: (adj) impotent, ineffective, trachea, naris, anterior naris, nare. odour: (n) flavour, smell, odor, aroma, insignificant.

requite: (adj, v) pay, gratify, satisfy; (v) recompense, reciprocate, compensate, reward, remunerate, reimburse, return, refund. sweetly: (adv) pleasantly, sweet, mildly, melodically, melodiously, softly, syrupily, beautifully, pleasingly, dulcetly, fairly. ANTONYMS: (adv) discordantly, horribly, sharply, harshly, unkindly. tonight: (adv) this night.

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That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet. [Exit a SERVANT.] Death may usurp on nature many hours, And yet the fire of life kindle again The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian That had nine hours lien dead, Who was by good appliance recovered. [Re-enter a SERVANT, with boxes, napkins, and fire.] Well said, well said; the fire and cloths. The rough and woeful music that we have, Cause it to sound, beseech you The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block! The music there! -- I pray you, give her air. Gentlemen, This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced Above five hours: see how she gins to blow Into life's flower again! FIRST GENTLEMAN. The heavens, Through you, increase our wonder and set up Your fame for ever.% CERIMON. She is alive; behold, Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels Which Pericles hath lost, Begin to part their fringes of bright gold; The diamonds of a most praised water Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live, And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,

Thesaurus appliance: (n) apparatus, device, gadget, facility, machine, implement, furniture, convenience, contrivance, application, gear. beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, offer, grant, reject. fringes: (n) outer edge, border. kindle: (adj, v) inflame; (v) fire, excite, arouse, burn, flame, awaken, incite, enkindle, stir; (n, v) light.

ANTONYMS: (v) enkindle, dampen, borrow, confiscate, take, grab; (adj) violate. ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, calm, extinguish, quench, stifle. lien: (n) bond, mortgage, pledge, relinquish. plight, spleen, debenture, bill of sale, weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob, hypothecation, Retaining lien, paper blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet, whimper; (n) tear. credit, pignoration. praised: (adj) bepuffed, popular, woeful: (adj) sad, lamentable, renowned. sorrowful, pitiful, wretched, pitiable, twice: (adv) doubly, bis, two times, in doleful, woebegone, deplorable, two ways, once more; (adj) twenty. piteous, regrettable. ANTONYMS: usurp: (v) arrogate, seize, appropriate, (adj) happy, joyful, glad, take over, commandeer, capture, praiseworthy, laudable.

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Rare as you seem to be. [She moves.] THAISA. O dear Diana, Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this? SECOND GENTLEMAN. Is not this strange? FIRST GENTLEMAN. Most rare.% CERIMON. Hush, my gentle neighbours! Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her. Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to, For her, relapse is mortal. Come, come; And AEsculapius guide us! [Exeunt, carrying her away.]

SCENE III. TARSUS. A ROOM IN CLEON'S HOUSE. [Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with MARINA in her arms.] PERICLES. Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone; My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands In a litigious peace. You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods Make up the rest upon you!

Thesaurus bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit, underclothes, hemp; (v) muslin. relapse: (n, v) regress, decline, fall; (n) abide, allow, wear, comport, tolerate, litigious: (adj) disputatious, recidivism, recurrence, regression, convey, teem. ANTONYMS: (v) deterioration; (v) backslide, revert, argumentative, controversial, recur, deteriorate. ANTONYMS: (v) release, avoid, destroy, dodge, take, debatable, litigant, disputative, improve, recover, progress; (n) eradicate, evade, kill, refuse, erase; arguable, disputable, bellicose, (n) bull. battleful, contested. improvement, recovery, guide: (n, v) escort, conduct, govern, mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, regeneration. channel, control, usher, cicerone; (n) deathly, earthly; (n) man, individual, thankfulness: (n) appreciation, directory, attendant; (v) drive, bring. creature, person, human being, body. gratefulness, appreciativeness, ANTONYM: (v) follow. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) immortal; (adj) thanks, credit, merit, recognition. linen: (n) fabric, flax, lingerie, doily, twelve: (adj, n) dozen, XII; (n) boxcars, eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect, doyley, doyly, cambric, underwear, spiritual. large integer.

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CLEON. Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally, Yet glance full wanderingly on us.% DIONYZA. O, your sweet queen! That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither, To have bless'd mine eyes with her! PERICLES. We cannot but obey The powers above us. Could I rage and roar As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom, For she was born at sea, I have named so, here I charge your charity withal, leaving her The infant of your care; beseeching you To give her princely training, that she may be Manner'd as she is born. CLEON. Fear not, my lord, but think Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, For which the people's prayers still fall upon you, Must in your child be thought on. If neglection Should therein make me vile, the common body, By you relieved, would force me to my duty: But if to that my nature need a spur, The gods revenge it upon me and mine, To the end of generation! PERICLES. I believe you; Your honour and your goodness teach me to 't, Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,

Thesaurus beseeching: (adj) begging, suppliant, imploring, pleading, precative, supplicatory, precatory, importunate; (n) prayer; (v) plead; (adv) beseechingly. ANTONYM: (adj) imperative. fates: (adj) book of fate, Parcae, sky; (n) fortune, the fates. relieved: (adj) alleviated, thankful, mitigated, prominent, pleased, joyful, fresh, delighted, comfortable, cheerful, happy. ANTONYM: (adj)

worried. revenge: (n) retribution, vengeance, reprisal, retaliation, repayment, grudge, punishment; (v) retaliate, repay, requite, vindicate. therein: (adv) in this, in there. vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, honorable, good, delightful,

admirable, noble. wanderingly: (adv) rovingly, vagabondly, errantly, migratorily, windingly, unsettledly, nomadically, lostly, ramblingly, travelingly, incoherently. withal: (adv) nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, even so, all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, enough.

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By bright Diana, whom we honour, all Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain, Though I show ill in 't. So I take my leave Good madam, make me blessed in your care In bringing up my child.% DIONYZA. I have one myself, Who shall not be mere dear to my respect Than yours, my lord. PERICLES. Madam, my thanks and prayers. CLEON. We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore, Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and The gentlest winds of heaven. PERICLES. I will embrace Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears, Lychorida, no tears: Look to your little mistress, on whose grace You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord. [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. EPHESUS. A ROOM IN CERIMON'S HOUSE. [Enter CERIMON and THAISA.] CERIMON. Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,

Thesaurus blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed, count, rely, stay, reckon, confide, on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter, afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity, time sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted, suspend, calculate, attend, pivot. ANTONYM: (v) distrust. fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine. to come, great beyond, future life. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, condemned, damned, disapproved, embellish, beautify, decorate, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) unhappy, unholy, secular. keeper, madames, signora, female, bringing: (n) delivery, consignment, elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. bawd. ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare, simple, serving, service, passage, post. dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, pure; (n) loch, tarn, boundary, heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, absolute; (n, v) downright; (adv) lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; (adj) precious, intimate, sweet. merely; (adj, v) clear. demean. depend: (adj, v) hang; (v) dangle, hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now yours: (adj) own.

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Lay with you in your coffer: which are now At your command. Know you the character? THAISA. It is my lord's. That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, Even on my eaning time; but whether there Deliver'd, by the holy gods, I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles, My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again, A vestal livery will I take me to, And never more have joy.% CERIMON. Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak, Diana's temple is not distant far, Where you may abide till your date expire. Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine Shall there attend you. THAISA. My recompense is thanks, that's all; Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. [Exeunt.]

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(adv) wrongly, inappropriately, daughter, uncle, kinswoman. recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n) incorrectly, immorally, unjustly, compensation, amends, atonement, partially, sinfully, unfairly, falsely. vestal: (adj) chaste, virginal, virtuous, payment, consideration, indemnification, indemnity; (v) pure, saturated, not mixed, good, sinless, undiluted; (n) woman, nun. compensate, reimburse. ANTONYMS: (v) penalize, receive; wedded: (adj, v) marital, connubial, (n) penalty. matrimonial, conjugal, wed; (adj) rightly: (adv) correctly, rightfully, nuptial, bridal. ANTONYMS: (adj) properly, accurately, appropriately, unmarried, unattached. exactly, fitly, straightly, fairly, really; whether: (pron) where. (adv, v) adequately. ANTONYMS:

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[Enter GOWER.] GOWER. Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre, Welcomed and settled to his own desire. His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus, Unto Diana there a votaress. Now to Marina bend your mind, Whom our fast-growing scene must find At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd In music, letters; who hath gain'd Of education all the grace, Which makes her both the heart and place Of general wonder. But, alack, That monster envy, oft the wrack Of earned praise, Marina's life Seeks to take off by treason's knife. And in this kind hath our Cleon One daughter, and a wench full grown, Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid Hight Philoten: and it is said

Thesaurus arrived: (adv) here, at home; (adj) ANTONYM: (n) generosity. monster: (n) beast, fiend, devil, freak, accepted. bend: (n, v) bow, turn, arch, arc, crook, brute, demon, ogre, leviathan, twist, elbow; (adj, n, v) curve; (v) behemoth, monstrosity; (adj) huge. stoop, crouch; (adj, v) flex. praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, ANTONYMS: (n, v) square; (v) align, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, unbend, leave. compliment, honor, glory, acclaim; earned: (adj) deserved, realized, due. (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) envy: (v) begrudge, want; (n) criticism, disparagement; (v) enviousness, desire, heartburning, reprimand, disparage, reproach, resentment, envies, heartburn, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, jealousy, hatred; (adj) jealous. denigrate, sully.

scene: (n, v) aspect, view, outlook, lookout; (n) background, display, spectacle, picture, environment, panorama, perspective. settled: (adj) definite, set, firm, permanent, certain, calm, established, decided, formed, defined, finished. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsettled, exciting, temporary. wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab.

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For %certain in our story, she Would ever with Marina be: Be't when she weaved the sleided silk With fingers long, small, white as milk; Or when she would with sharp needle wound, The cambric, which she made more sound By hurting it; or when to the lute She sung, and made the night-bird mute That still records with moan; or when She would with rich and constant pen Vail to her mistress Dian; still This Philoten contends in skill With absolute Marina: so With the dove of Paphos might the crow Vie feathers white. Marina gets All praises, which are paid as debts, And not as given. This so darks In Philoten all graceful marks, That Cleon's wife, with envy rare, A present murderer does prepare For good Marina, that her daughter Might stand peerless by this slaughter. The sooner her vile thoughts to stead, Lychorida, our nurse, is dead: And cursed Dionyza hath The pregnant instrument of wrath Prest for this blow. The unborn event I do commend to your content: Only I carry winged time Post on the lame feet of my rhyme; Which never could I so convey, Unless your thoughts went on my way.

Thesaurus cambric: (n) calico, cambric-muslin, dysmenorrhea, agony; (v) causing unique, unmatched, unrivaled, one pain. ANTONYM: (adj) painless. cashmere, fabric, textile, material, and only, inimitable, supreme, lame: (adj) crippled, disabled, halting, superlative, unequaled, unmatchable. cloth, linen. contends: (v) contend. feeble, halt, weak, paralytic; (adj, n) ANTONYM: (adj) vulnerable. dove: (n) turtledove, squab, emblem, game; (adj, v) paralyze, maim, unborn: (adj) uncreated, unmade, pacificist, pacifist, poultry, dover, becripple. unproduced, unconceived, unbred, not begotten, unbegotten; (n) pigeon, Holy Spirit, culver, peacenik. moan: (n, v) grumble, gripe, whine, feathers: (n) plumage, fur, indument, lament, cry, howl; (v) bewail, posterity. ANTONYM: (adj) born. complain, mourn; (n) complaint, went: (v) walked, proceeded. garment, garb, fine hair, clothing, lamentation. ANTONYMS: (v) winged: (adj) swift, rapid, speedy, dress, apparel, attire, array. hurting: (adj) aching, painful, tender; compliment; (n) praise. quick, flying, alate, sublime, lofty, (n) hurt, ache, sting, pain, colic, peerless: (adj) matchless, nonpareil, alated, aligerous, composed.

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Dionyza does appear, With Leonine, a murderer. [Exit.]

SCENE I. TARSUS. AN OPEN PLACE NEAR THE SEA-SHORE.% [Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE.] DIONYZA. Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do 't: 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known. Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon, To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience, Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom, Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be A soldier to thy purpose. LEONINE. I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature. DIONYZA. The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here she comes weeping for her only mistress' death. Thou art resolved? LEONINE. I am resolved. [Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers.] MARINA. No, I will rob Tellus of her weed To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues, The purple violets, and marigolds,

Thesaurus fitter: (n) adjuster, machinist, sartor, cutter, mounter, erector; (adj) suitable, healthier. flowers: (n) analecta, anthology. inflaming: (adj) burning, consuming, inflammatory, excessively hot, exciting, fiery; (n) arousal. melt: (v) dissolve, deliquesce, vanish, coalesce, relent, meld, fade, defrost; (adj, v) run, liquefy; (n, v) thaw. ANTONYMS: (v) freeze, solidify, cool, set.

nicely: (adv) daintily, pleasantly, sprinkle, bestrew, circulate, finely, deliciously, kindly, delicately, propagate. ANTONYM: (v) correctly, exactly, pleasingly, concentrate. sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal, elegantly, skillfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) badly, unattractively, implacable, engaged, dedicated, inelegantly, cruelly. committed, betrothed, bespoken, purple: (adj) violet, lilac, imperial, affianced, inveterate. regal, royal; (adj, n) empurpled; (v) weeping: (adj) tearful, lachrymose, empurple; (n) magenta, purpleness, dolourous, dolorous; (n, v) lament, lamentation; (v) wailing; (n) sobbing, ermine, pall. strew: (v) scatter, spread, disperse, tears, cry; (adj, n) howling. disseminate, distribute, diffuse, sow, ANTONYM: (n) celebration.

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Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave, While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid, Born in a tempest, when my mother died, This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends.% DIONYZA. How now, Marina! why do you keep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed With this unprofitable woe! Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it. Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come, Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her. MARINA. No, I pray you; I'll not bereave you of your servant. DIONYZA. Come, come; I love the king your father, and yourself, With more than foreign heart. We every day Expect him here: when he shall come and find Our paragon to all reports thus blasted, He will repent the breadth of his great voyage; Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you, Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve That excellent complexion, which did steal

Thesaurus bereave: (v) strip, deprive of, divest, rob, despoil, oust, lose, abridge, seize, confiscate, debar. breadth: (n) width, spread, amplitude, wideness, size, length, latitude, extent, area, broadness, stretch. ANTONYMS: (n) length, longitude, emptiness, thinness. complexion: (n, v) tint; (n) cast, character, appearance, look, hue, aspect, flush, glow, dye, fashion. lasting: (adj) abiding, everlasting, firm,

eternal, enduring, continuous, permanent, constant, perpetual, tough; (adj, v) fast. ANTONYMS: (adj) fleeting, impermanent, superficial, ephemeral, caducous, unstable, occasional, insubstantial, erratic, acute, fickle. paragon: (n) exemplar, ideal, model, perfection, paradigm, pattern, jimdandy, idol; (adj, n) beau ideal; (adj) phenix, pink. repent: (v) deplore, bewail, rue,

mourn, lament, atone, sorry, bemoan, feel remorse, grieve, be sorry. sorrowing: (adj) sorrowful, grieving, mournful, distressed, bereft, bereaved, unhappy, lamenting, regretful, sad; (n) cry. ANTONYM: (adj) joyful. unprofitable: (adj) profitless, fruitless, futile, inutile, disadvantageous, unfruitful, barren, idle, vain, uneconomic, unproductive. ANTONYMS: (adj) fruitful, lucrative.

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The eyes of young and old. Care not for me; I can go home alone.% MARINA. Well, I will go; But yet I have no desire to it. DIONYZA. Come, come, I know 'tis good for you. Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least: Remember what I have said. LEONINE. I warrant you, madam. DIONYZA. I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while: Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood: What! I must have a care of you. MARINA. My thanks, sweet madam. [Exit DIONYZA.] Is this wind westerly that blows? LEONINE. South-west. MARINA. When I was born, the wind was north. LEONINE. Was 't so? MARINA. My father, as nurse said, did never fear, But cried 'Good seamen!' to the sailors, galling His kingly hands, haling ropes;

Thesaurus desire: (n) ambition, aspiration, tenderly, delicately, gently, soft, cacophonous, dry. craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license, quiet, silently, kindly, slowly. fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire, ANTONYMS: (adv) hoarsely, assure, sanction, empower; (n) seek. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, authority, authorization, security; (v) roughly, loudly, clearly, harshly, hate; (n) aversion, reality, revulsion, justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) forte, severely, strongly, heavily, apathy; (v) spurn, abhor, answer, break; (v) debar. convincingly, brightly. sweet: (adj) fresh, mellow, lovable, westerly: (adj) western, westbound, command, insist. kingly: (adj, adv) stately; (adj) August, dear, pleasant, musical, melodious, hillbilly; (n) west wind, prevailing pleasing, sugary; (adj, v) lovely; (adj, westerly, wester; (adv) westwards; (v) noble, regal, imperial, sovereign, majestic, royal; (adv) royally, n) beloved. ANTONYMS: (adj) to the west. ANTONYM: (adv) majestically, regally. discordant, bitter, acid, sharp, acidic, easterly. softly: (adv) quietly, mildly, lightly, pungent, salty, harsh, detestable,

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And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea That almost burst the deck.% LEONINE. When was this? MARINA. When I was born: Never was waves nor wind more violent; And from the ladder-tackle washes off A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, wilt out?' And with a dropping industry they skip From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and The master calls, and trebles their confusion. LEONINE. Come, say your prayers. MARINA. What mean you? LEONINE. If you require a little space for prayer, I grant it: pray; but be not tedious, For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn To do my work with haste. MARINA. Why will you kill rne? LEONINE. To satisfy my lady. MARINA. Why would she have me kill'd? Now, as I can remember, by my troth, I never did her hurt in all my life: I never spoke bad word, nor did ill turn

Thesaurus boatswain: (n) bosun, cockswain, tar, stem: (n) root, bow, branch, stalk, bole, fatigued, plunging, plummeting, stick, shank, handle; (v) originate, seaman, seafarer, gob, bos'n, mariner, dipping; (n) sagging, reducing, block, arrest. ANTONYMS: (v) skua, boson. sinking, dropping of the launcher burst: (adj, n, v) crack; (adj, v) split, stages, dispatching. encourage, accelerate. blow up, explode, splinter, detonate; mast: (n) post, foremast, column, spar, stern: (adj) rigid, rigorous, austere, (n, v) rupture, blast; (adj, n) flash; (v) hard, strict, grim, solemn, rough; (adj, spanker-mast, mainmast, jigger, break out, belch. ANTONYMS: (v) v) harsh; (n) back; (adj, n) rear. tower, aerial, ship mast, nut. satisfy: (v) please, persuade, meet, ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, attach, join, connect, fasten, trickle. calls: (n) securities, puts, bonds, satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj, v) approving, lenient, funny, genial, preferred stock, common stock. content, fill, suffice, do. gentle, kindly, lax, liberal, cheerful, clasping: (adj) tendril. ANTONYMS: (v) intensify, displease, flexible. dropping: (adj) dropped, down, disappoint, disgruntle, frustrate.

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To any living creature: believe me, la, I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly: I trod upon a worm against my will, But I wept for it. How have I offended, Wherein my death might yield her any profit, Or my life imply her any danger? LEONINE. My commission Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.% MARINA. You will not do 't for all the world, I hope. You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately, When you caught hurt in parting two that fought: Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now: Your lady seeks my life; come you between, And save poor me, the weaker. LEONINE. I am sworn, And will dispatch. [He seizes her.] [Enter PIRATES.] FIRST PIRATE. Hold, villain! [LEONINE runs away.] SECOND PIRATE. A prize! a prize! THIRD PIRATE. Half-part, mates, half-part, Comes, let's have her aboard suddenly.

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start, begin, hold, retain. departure, disunion, goodbye, imply: (n, v) denote, betoken; (v) leaving, segregation, dying, rupture; connote, hint, allude, intimate, entail, (adj) valedictory. ANTONYMS: (n) mean, indicate, convey; (adj, v) joining, meeting, connection, involve. Reunion. mates: (n) match, couple, mate, pair, runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness, Lucifer, friction match, family unit, Montezuma's revenge. villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, family, equal, dyad, duo. mouse: (v) sneak, creep, steal, snoop, knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit, seek; (n) track, hunt, field mouse, crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion. fieldmouse, trace; (adj) small fry. ANTONYMS: (n) heroine, hero. parting: (n) adieu, division, leave,

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[Exeunt PIRATES with MARINA.] [Re-enter LEONINE.] LEONINE. These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; And they hav seized Marina. Let her go: Thre's no hope she will return. I'll swear she's dead And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further: Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her, Not carry her aboard. If she remain, Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain. [Exit.]

SCENE II. MYTILENE. A ROOM IN A BROTHEL.% [Enter PANDAR, BAWD, and BOULT.] PANDAR. Boult! BOULT. Sir? PANDAR. Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being too wenchless. BAWD. We were never so much out of creatures. We have but poor three, and they can do no more than they can do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten.

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fresh, superior, unrotten, good, incorruptible, honest, lovely, fair, great, respectful. seized: (adj) confiscate, appropriated, condemned, apprehended, grasped, taken, held, seised, detained, obtained, arraught. serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate, function, do; (n, v) officiate. themselves: (pron) myself, itself, yourself; (n) yourselves.

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PANDAR. Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'r we pay for them. If there be not a conscience to be used in every trade, we shall never prosper.% BAWD. Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor bastards, -- as, I think, I have bought up some eleven -BOULT. Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But shall I search the market? BAWD. What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind will blo it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden. PANDAR. Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o' conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that lay with the little baggage. BOULT. Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat for worms. But I'll go search the market. [Exit.] PANDAR. Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a proportion to live quietly, and so give over. BAWD. Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get when we are old? PANDAR. O, our credit comes not in like the commodity , nor the commodity wages not with the danger: therfore, if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods will be strong with us for giving over. BAWD. Come, others sorts offend as well as we.

Thesaurus baggage: (n) bag, bags, trunk, pack, gear, equipment, stuff, effects, suitcases, woman, thing. hatched: (adj) crosshatched, born, ruled. offend: (v) irritate, affront, insult, contravene, injure, disgust, infringe, displease, abuse, wound, anger. ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight, praise, attract. pieces: (n) debris, trash. pitifully: (adv) sadly, piteously,

wretchedly, sorrily, touchingly, distressingly, poorly, meanly, movingly, ruefully, woefully. ANTONYMS: (adv) cheerfully, happily. pooped: (adj) tired, weary, drained, fatigued, bushed, prostrate, worn out, worn, done in, beat, shattered. ANTONYM: (adj) refreshed. sodden: (adj, v) soaking, dripping; (adj) damp, wet, saturated, sopping, soggy, muddy, drenched, sloppy,

soppy. sore: (adj, n, v) hurt; (adj) sensitive, angry, grievous, raw; (n) injury, lesion, cut, boil; (v) acute; (adj, v) sharp. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, healthy, pleased, comfortable. unwholesome: (adj) noxious, harmful, noisome, morbid, injurious, detrimental, sickly, insalubrious, corrupting, diseased, damaging. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, decent, wholesome, pleasant.

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PANDAR. As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse. Neither is our profession any trade; it's no calling. But here comes Boult.% [Re-enter BOULT, with the PIRATES and MARINA.] BOULT [To MARINA.] Come your ways. My masters, you say she's a virgin? FIRST PIRATE. O, sir, we doubt it not. BOULT. Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see: if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest. BAWD. Boult, has she any qualities? BOULT. She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent clothes: ther's no further necessity of qualities can make her be refused. BAWD. What is her price, Boult? BOULT. I cannot be baited one doit of a thousand pieces. PANDAR. Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her entertainment. [Exeunt PANDAR and PIRATES.] BAWD. Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall have

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guarantee. ANTONYMS: (adj) flippant, halfhearted, uncertain, insincere, unimportant, nonchalant, lethargic, apathetic, unenthusiastic, indifferent, frivolous. instruct: (v) charge, educate, teach, advise, enlighten, direct, drill, inform, command, indoctrinate, tutor. masters: (n) Edgar lee Masters. necessity: (n) demand, need, lack, exigency, essential, compulsion,

emergency, distress, must, constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS: (n) inessential, treat, unimportance, luxury. qualities: (n) character, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, quality, role, self, part, traits, individuality. speaks: (n) talks. virginity: (n) maidenhood, pucelage, chastity, purity, maidenhead, pudicity, virtue, freshness, virginhood, innocence, spirit.

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her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done as I command you.% BOULT. Performance shall follow. [Exit.] MARINA. Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow! He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates, Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me For to seek my mother! BARD. Why lament you, pretty one? MARINA. That I am pretty. BAWD. Come, the gods have done their part in you. MARINA. I accuse them not. BAWD. You are light into my hands, where you are like to live. MARINA. The more my fault To scape his hands where I was like to die. BAWD. Ay, and you shall live in pleasure. MARINA. No. BAWD. Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all fashions: you shall fare well;

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fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment, board, scape: (n) flower stalk, peduncle, shaft, table, charge, chow, menu, traveller; scapus, ray, perspective, Peter, prick, (v) come, eat. ANTONYM: (v) stop. prospect, barb, rotating shaft. lament: (v) bemoan, complain, slack: (adj, v) loose, lax, remiss, slow, deplore, grieve, keen, bewail, mourn; dull; (adj) indolent, negligent, idle, (n) dirge, complaint; (n, v) wail, flaccid, limp, baggy. ANTONYMS: moan. ANTONYMS: (n) celebration, (adj) strict, taut, thorough, brisk, joy; (v) revel, rejoice, celebrate, diligent, attentive, upright, prompt, meticulous; (v) tighten; (n) tautness. applaud, praise, compliment. maidenhead: (n) maidenhood, spoke: (n) bar, rung, radius, rule, shoe, skid, rundle, line, clog, round; (v) mucosa, virginity, purity, virginal membrane. said.

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you shall have the difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears? MARINA. Are you a woman? BAWD. What would you have me be, an I be not a woman? MARINA. An honest woman, or not a woman.% BAWD. Marry, whip the, gosling: I think I shall have something to do with you. Come, you're a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have you. MARINA. The gods defend me! BAWD. If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir you up. Boult's returned. [Re-enter BOULT.] Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market? BOULT. I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs; I have drawn her picture with my voice. BAWD. And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort? BOULT. 'Faith, they listened to me as they would have hearkened to their father's testament. There was a Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to her very description.

Thesaurus bowed: (adj) arched, curved, inclined, ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible, crooked, arciform, arching, arced, shrewd, prudent, visionary, bandy, arcuate, twisted, bended. diplomatic, levelheaded, sane, ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, concave, rational, mature, judicious. gosling: (n) gesling, goose, young plucked. description: (n) account, type, picture, goose. hairs: (n) hair. depiction, explanation, brand, delineation, story, recital, report; (adj, inclination: (n, v) desire, bent; (n) n) kind. fancy, affection, tendency, leaning, foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy, drift, appetite, dip, proclivity, bias. ANTONYMS: (n) disinclination, dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly. reluctance, aversion, indifference,

unwillingness, antipathy, dislike, horror. re-enter: (v) return, come back. sapling: (n) seedling, stripling, adolescent, sprout, plant, youth, tree, young tree, cub, young man, plantlet. watered: (adj) irriguous, dewy, watermarked, moist. whip: (n, v) lash, strap, goad; (v) flog, flagellate, beat, punish, thrash, trounce, stir, wallop. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, return.

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BAWD. We shall have him here to-morrow: with his best ruff on.% BOULT. To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the French knight that cowers i' the hams? BAWD. Who, Monsieur Veroles? BOULT. Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see her to-morrow. BAWD. Well. well; as for him, he brought his disease hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the sun. BOULT. Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we should lodge them with this sign. BAWD. [To MARINA.] Pray you, come hither awhile. You have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must seem to do that fearfully which you commit willingly, despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a mere profit. MARINA. I understand you not. BOULT. O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practice.

Thesaurus awhile: (adj) in transitu, en passant; (adv) briefly. caper: (n, v) skip, bound, frolic, hop, romp, leap, play, gambol; (n) prank, joke, antic. ANTONYM: (v) restrain. fearfully: (adv) timidly, timorously, awfully, apprehensively, horrendously, hideously, anxiously, appallingly, terribly; (adj, adv) shockingly, dreadfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) bravely, calmly, confidently, wonderfully, rationally,

unconcernedly. proscribed, put out. groan: (n, v) grumble, murmur, cry, ruff: (n, v) ruffle, trump, disturbance; sigh, mutter, squeak, rumble, scrape; (n) collar, neckband, fraise, blacktail, (v) howl, complain; (n) complaint. choker, neck ruff, sandpiper; (v) hers: (pron) she, his; (adj) own. crossruff. proclamation: (n) announcement, scatter: (n, v) spread, spray; (v) decree, edict, annunciation, notice, disperse, dispel, disseminate, statement, promulgation, report, distribute, break up, dissipate, publication, manifesto, propagation. sprinkle, circulate, diffuse. quenched: (adj) extinct, quelled, out, ANTONYMS: (v) collect, reform, slaked, squelched, dead, kayoed, attract, concentrate. permanently inactive, prohibited,

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BAWD. Thou sayest true, i' faith so they must; for your bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go with warrant.% BOULT. 'Faith, some do and some do not. But, mistress, if I have bargained for the joint, -BAWD. Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit. BOULT. I may so. BAWD. Who should deny it? Come young one, I like the manner of your garments well. BOULT. Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet. BAWD. Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom. When nature framed this piece, she meant thee a good turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou hast the harvest out of thine own report. BOULT. I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels as my giving out her Beauty stir up the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some tonight. BAWD. Come your ways; follow me. MARINA. If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, Untied I still my virgin knot will keep. Diana, aid my purpose!

Thesaurus bride: (n) fiance, Bridget, Brigid, saint gather, amass, get, reap, pick; (n) mite. sojourner: (n) householder, Brigid, saint Bridget, honeymooner, ingathering, profit, produce. knot: (n) bow, cluster, lump, gang, prioress, newlywed, participant, incumbent, inmate, lodger, metic, wife, bridegroom. ANTONYMS: (n) joint; (v) entangle, knit, bind; (n, v) tenant, residentiary, resident, tie, loop, tangle. ANTONYMS: (v) bridegroom, groom. occupier, occupant, dweller. framed: (adj) counterfeit, prepared, unravel, undo, unknot, disentangle. spit: (v) drizzle, expectorate, sprinkle, meant: (adj) destined, implied, sincere, spew, drool, spike, spatter; (n) orderly, methodical, spurious. ANTONYM: (adj) unframed. broach, saliva, cape; (n, v) skewer. preordained, intentional, garments: (n) attire, clothing, dress, predestined; (v) intend, designate. thunder: (adj, n, v) boom; (n, v) roar, morsel: (n, v) bite, mouthful; (n) bang, roll, bellow; (adj, n) peal; (adj, v) apparel, raiment, outfit, costume, explode, detonate; (v) howl, rumble, garb, array, gear, anything worthless. crumb, chew, particle, fragment, harvest: (n, v) fruit; (v) gain, glean, taste, piece, nibble; (adj, v) gobbet, fulminate.

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BAWD. What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us? [Exeunt.]

SCENE III. TARSUS. A ROOM IN CLEON'S HOUSE.% [Enter CLEON and DIONYZA.] DIONYZA. Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone? CLEON. O, Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon! DIONYZA. I think You'll turn a child agan. CLEON. Were I chief lord of all this spacious world, I'ld give it to undo the deed. 0 lady, Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess To equal any single crown o' the earth I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine! Whom thou hast poison'd too: If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say When noble Pericles shall demand his child? DIONYZA. That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates, To foster it, nor ever to preserve.

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night; (v) daydream. undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished, spacious: (adj) broad, extensive, large, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand, decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v) wide, ample, commodious, vast, capacious, comprehensive, open, accursed, to be pitied, devoted. great. ANTONYMS: (adj) cramped, virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence, quality, attribute; (n) honor, narrow, airless, overcrowded. undo: (v) loosen, open, annul, cancel, goodness, honesty, morality, separate, disentangle, untie, unfold, decency, probity, efficacy. ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt, reverse, disconnect, nullify. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, close, do, vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor, wrap, tangle, validate, knot, lock, immorality, evil, demerit, permit, unite, approve. inadequacy, disadvantage.

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She died at night; I'11 say so. Who can cross it? Unless you play the pious innocent, And for an honest attribute cry out 'She died by foul play.' CLEON. O, go to. Well, well, Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods Do like this worst.% DIONYZA. Be one of those that think. The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence, And open this to Pericles. I do shame To think of what a noble strain you are, And of how coward a spirit. CLEON. To such proceeding Whoever but his approbation added, Though not his prime consent, he did not flow From honourable sources, DIONYZA. Be it so, then: Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead, Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. She did distain my child, and stood between Her and her fortunes: none would look on her, But cast their gazes on Marina's face; Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through; And though you call my course unnatural, You not your child well loving, yet I find

Thesaurus approbation: (n, v) praise; (n) applause, agreement, approval, acclaim, sanction, commendation, admiration, permission, appreciation, favor. ANTONYMS: (n) condemnation, disapproval, criticism. coward: (n) cur, pantywaist, sneak, dastard, milksop, weakling, milquetoast; (adj) gutless, chickenhearted, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted. ANTONYMS: (n)

daredevil, stalwart; (adj) brave. devotional, pure, hypocritical, distain: (adj) pollute, leaven, maculate, devoted, sanctimonious; (adj, v) splash; (v) discolor, contaminate, earnest. ANTONYMS: (adj) impious, debase. sinful, profane, blasphemous, heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, irreligious, uncommitted, secular, welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial irreverent. wrens: (n) warblers, Troglodytidae, sphere, space, skies, area, vault of heaven. tits, swallows, rooks, Passeriformes, pierced: (adj) punctured, perforate, order Passeriformes, finches, family penetrated, cut, cleft. Troglodytidae, etc, sparrows. pious: (adj, n, v) devout; (adj, n) godly; (adj) religious, holy, saintly,

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It greets me as an enterprise of kindness Perform'd to your sole daughter.% CLEON. Heavens forgive it! DIONYZA. And as for Pericles, What should he say? We wept after her hearse, And yet we mourn: her monument Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs In glittering golden characters express A general praise to her, and care in us At whose expense 'tis done. CLEON. Thou art like the harpy, Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face, Seize with thine eagle's talons. DIONYZA. You are like one that superstitiously Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies: But yet I know you'll do as I advise. [Exeunt.]

SCENE IV. [Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus.] GOWER. Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short; Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for 't;

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longest: (adj) best, lengest, fastest, top, record, best ever, greatest. monument: (n) headstone, cenotaph, tombstone, tablet, shrine, slab, gravestone, landmark, statue; (adj, n) column; (n, v) record. sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) single, singular, one, exclusive, individual, only, alone, solitary. ANTONYM: (adj) common. talons: (v) claws, tenaculum, unguis, tentacle, teeth; (n) clutches.

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Making, to take your imagination, From bourn to bourn, region to region. By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime To use one language in each several clime Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you, The stages of our story. Pericles Is now again thwarting the wayward seas Attended on by many a lord and knight, To see his daughter, all his life's deight. Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late Advanced in time to great and high estate. Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind, Old Helicanus goes along behind Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought This king to Tarsus, -- think his pilot thought; So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on, -To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone. Like motes and shadows see them move awhile; Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.% DUMB SHOW. [Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train; CLEON and DIONYZA, at the other. CLEON shows PERICLES the tomb; whereat PERICLES makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a mighty passion departs. Then exeunt CLEON and DIONYZA.] GOWER. See how belief may suffer by foul show; This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe; And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd, With sighs shot through; and biggest tears o'ershower'd, Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears

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lamentation: (n) dirge, grief, mourning, plaint, regret, complaint, cry, crying, wail, moan, condolence. ANTONYM: (n) celebration. sackcloth: (n) bagging, bag cloth, sacking, cloth, garment. steerage: (n) guidance, control, steering, direction, helm, management, accommodation, controlling. swears: (n) swearing. thwarting: (n) defeat, foiling,

precaution, prepossession; (adj) frustrative, frustrating, not parallel, oblique, perverse, mutually inverse; (v) obstruction. wayward: (adj) contrary, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn, intractable, unruly, capricious; (adj, n) freakish, crotchety, wanton, fanciful. ANTONYMS: (adj) controllable, good, manageable, biddable. whereat: (adv) upon which.

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Never %to wash his face, nor cut his hairs: He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears, And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit The epitaph is for Marina writ By wicked Dionyza. [Reads the inscription on MARINA'S monument.] 'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here, Who wither'd in her spring of year. She was of Tyrus the king's daughter, On whom foul death hath made this slaughter; Marina was she call'd; and at her birth, Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth: Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd, Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd: Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint, Make raging battery upon shores of flint.' No visor does become black villany So well as soft and tender flattery. Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead, And bear his courses to be ordered By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day In her unholy service. Patience, then, And think you now are all in Mytilene. [Exit.]

SCENE V. MYTILENE. A STREET BEFORE THE BROTHEL. [Enter, from the brothel, two GENTLEMEN.]

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FIRST GENTLEMAN. Did you ever hear the like? SECOND GENTLEMAN. No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she being once gone.% FIRST GENTLEMAN. But to have divinity preached there! did you ever dream of such a thing? SECOND GENTLEMAN. No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses: shall's go hear the vestals sing? FIRST GENTLEMAN. I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I am out of the road of rutting for ever. [Exeunt.]

SCENE VI. THE SAME. A ROOM IN THE BROTHEL. [Enter PANDAR, BAWD, and BOULT.] PANDAR. Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she had ne'er come here. BAWD. Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she should do for clients her fitment, and do me the kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks, her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil, if he should cheapen a kiss of her.

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touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate, love. knees: (n) knee. puritan: (adj) blue, puritanic, puritanical, Methodist, formalist, religionist; (n) precisian, devotee, sanyasi, yogi; (v) coquette. ravished: (adj) ecstatic, overjoyed, rapturous, defiled. rutting: (adj) estrous, horny, hot, randy.

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BOULT. 'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.% PANDAR. Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me! BAWD. 'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised. BOULT. We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. [Enter LYSIMACHUS.] LYSIMACHUS. How now! How a dozen of virginities? BAWD. Now, the gods to bless your honour! BOULT. I am glad to see your honour in good health. LYSIMACHUS. You may so; 'tis the better for you that your resorters stand upon sound legs. How now! wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal withal, and defy the surgeon? BAWD. We have here one, sir, if she would -- but there never came her like in Mytilene. LYSIMACHUS. If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say. BAWD. Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.

Thesaurus defy: (n, v) dare; (v) brave, resist, ignore, confront, revolt, oppose, withstand, disobey, contradict; (n) defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, acquiesce, surrender, yield, comply, accept. disfurnish: (v) disgarnish, dispurvey. disguised: (adj) cloaked, concealed, masked, secret, hidden, veiled, in disguise, incognito, blind; (adj, v) private; (n) groggy. ANTONYMS: (adj) recognizable, unmasked,

uncovered, uncloaked, revealed, cantankerous, touchy. ravish: (v) charm, enrapture, rape, open, obvious. iniquity: (adj, n) depravity; (n) violate, delight, captivate, defile, inequity, wickedness, immorality, deflower, force, transport, enchant. ANTONYM: (v) disenchant. injustice, crime, sin, vice, darkness, villainy, sinfulness. ANTONYMS: (n) wholesome: (adj) healthy, beneficial, goodness, good. salubrious, healthful, salutary, sound, lown: (n) loon, vagabond, runnion, good, nutritious, nourishing, pure, hale. ANTONYMS: (adj) outcast, oaf, lout. peevish: (adj) fretful, fractious, unwholesome, unhealthy, impure, morose, testy, irascible, moody, indecent, sordid, warped, tainted, captious, petulant, cross, decadent, deadly, unsavory.

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LYSIMACHUS. Well, call forth, call forth.% BOULT. For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but -LYSIMACHUS. What, prithee? BOULT. O, sir, I can be modest. LYSIMACHUS. That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it gives a good report to a number to be chaste. [Exit BOULT.] BAWD. Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never plucked yet, I can assure you. [Re-enter BOULT with MARINA.] Is she not a fair creature? LYSIMACHUS. 'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea. Well, there's for you: leave us. BAWD. I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and I'll have done presently. LYSIMACHUS. I beseech you, do. BAWD. [To MARINA.] First, I would have you note, this is an honourable man. MARINA. I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.

Thesaurus assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch; ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, track, trail, hunt. (v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, voyage: (n, v) travel, cruise, tour; (n) affirm, promise, ascertain; (adj, v) dirty, defiled, impure, tainted. trip, passage, expedition, flight, ensure. ANTONYMS: (v) alarm, honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, crossing, quest; (v) sail, navigate. worthily: (adv) excellently, honorably, disclaim, deny, disbelieve, venerable, glorious, honorable, undermine. distinguished, above-board, good, becomingly, praiseworthily, bawd: (n) prostitute, fancy woman, worthy, right, noble. deservingly, splendidly, generously, whore, cocotte, trollop, hooker, tart, plucked: (v) ploughed; (adj) pulled, meritoriously, virtuously, uprightly, goodly. ANTONYMS: (adv) badly, streetwalker, harlot, woman, pimp. unfeathered, featherless, moulting, chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, pilled. dishonorably. stalk: (n) stem, shank; (v) pursue, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, severe, continent, spotless, decent. walk, march, follow, shadow, tail,

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BAWD. Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man whom I am bound to.% MARINA. If he govern the country, you are bound to him indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not. BAWD. Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold. MARINA. What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive. LYSIMACHUS. Ha' you done? BAWD. My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways. [Exeunt BAWD, PANDAR, and BOULT.] LYSIMACHUS. Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade? MARINA. What trade, sir? LYSIMACHUS. Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend. MARINA. I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it. LYSIMACHUS. How long have you been of this profession? MARINA. E'er since I can remember?

Thesaurus apron: (n) skirt, proscenium, pall, pontificals, lawn sleeves, pinafore, petticoat, gathering head, wife, jupe, farthingale. fencing: (n) swordplay, enclosure, paling, evasion, barrier, railing, inclosure, weir; (v) prevarication, equivocation, fraud. governor: (n) chief, manager, regulator, administrator, lord, superintendent, ruler, controller, leader, president, protector.

graciously: (adv) gracefully, mildly, exertion, labour, pain, care, struggle, politely, courteously, benevolently, attempt, strain. benignantly, civilly, sympathetically, thankfully: (adv) gratefully, obligedly, mercifully, leniently, suavely. beholdenly, indebtedly, pleasedly, ANTONYMS: (adv) bitterly, coarsely, fortunately, happily, unreservedly, poorly, ungraciously, harshly. with enthusiasm, with pleasure, offended: (adj) angry, affronted, freely. ANTONYMS: (adv) aggrieved, pained, wronged, unfortunately, unwillingly. virginal: (adj) pure, chaste, vestal, annoyed, insulted, shocked, vexed, resentful, injured. ANTONYMS: (adj) virtuous, innocent, intact, spotless, fresh, maidenly; (n) Ebenezer, pair of indifferent, proud, unconcerned. pains: (n) nisus, labor, trouble, effort, virginals.

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LYSIMACHUS. Did you go to't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven? MARINA. Earlier, too, sir, if now I be one.% LYSIMACHUS. Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a creature of sale. MARINA. Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come into 't? I hear say you are of honourable parts, and are the governor of this place. LYSIMACHUS. Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am? MARINA. Who is my principal? LYSIMACHUS. Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place: come, come. MARINA. If you were born to honour, show it now; If put upon you, make the judgement good That thought you worthy of it. LYSIMACHUS. How 's this? how 's this? Some more; be sage. MARINA. For me, That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came, Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,

Thesaurus aloof: (adj) distant, reserved, cool, standoffish, unconcerned, indifferent, unfriendly, frigid, arrogant, cold; (adv) afar. ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, involved, approachable, sociable, outgoing, open, enthusiastic, relaxed, communicative, affable, respectful. dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) wander.

gamester: (n) sportsman, player, reveler, dicer, hazarder. maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass, lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, maiden, housemaid, handmaid. sage: (adj) sagacious, discerning, intelligent, prudent, judicious, learned, profound, knowing; (adj, v) grave; (n) philosopher, scholar. shame: (n, v) disgrace, dishonor, discredit, humiliate, degrade, chagrin; (n) humiliation, modesty,

scandal, insult; (v) abash. ANTONYMS: (n) pride, glorification, making, worthiness; (v) acknowledge, glorify, respect, dignify. ungentle: (adj) ignoble, rude, wild, ungainly, untitled, boisterous, bluff, lowborn. wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling, suit of clothes, the soft impeachment, entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case; (adj) amatory.

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O, that the gods Would set me free from this unhallow'd place, Though they did change me to the meanest bird That flies i' the purer air! LYSIMACHUS. I did not think Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst. Had I brought hither a corrupted mind, Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here 's gold for thee: Persever in that clear way thou goest, And the gods strengthen thee! MARINA. The good gods preserve you! LYSIMACHUS. For me, be you thoughten That I came with no ill intent; for to me The very doors and windows savour vilely. Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and I doubt not but thy training hath been noble. Hold, here's more gold for thee. A curse upon him, die he like a thief, That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.% [Re-enter BOULT.] BOULT. I beseech your honour, one piece for me. LYSIMACHUS. Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper! Your house but for this virgin that doth prop it,

Thesaurus corrupted: (adj) tainted, rotten, savour: (n, v) relish; (v) taste, enjoy, aureate, gilt, golden. goodness: (adj, n) generosity, devour; (n) flavour, flavor, sapidity, spoiled, degraded, adulterated, kindness, gentleness; (n) good, depraved, distorted, decayed, gusto, piquancy, tang, smack. impaired, debased; (n) corrupter. strengthen: (v) confirm, corroborate, excellence, benefit, virtue, worth, ANTONYM: (adj) pure. morality; (adj) favor, beneficence. brace, enhance, encourage, damned: (adj) accursed, doomed, ANTONYMS: (n) evil, wickedness, invigorate, intensify, fortify, toughen, stiffen, increase. ANTONYMS: (v) blasted, condemned, damn, cussed, badness, corruptness, bad, wretched, infernal, hateful, immorality, corruption. undermine, damage, sap, decrease, goddamned; (adv) damnably. meanest: (adj) last, least. atrophy, demoralize, dilute, ANTONYM: (adj) saved. prop: (n, v) support, buttress, brace, diminish, exhaust, reduce. gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth, shore, rest; (n) post, fulcrum, bullion, treasure, yellow, amber; (adj) property, mainstay; (v) bolster, hold.

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Would sink and overwhelm you. Away! [Exit.] BOULT. How's this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a spaniel. Come your ways.% MARINA. Whither would you have me? BOULT. I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say. [Re-enter BAWD.] BAWD. How now! what's the matter? BOULT. Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the Lord Lysimachus. BAWD. O Abominable! BOULT. She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of the gods. BAWD. Marry, hang her up for ever! BOULT. The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snowball; saying his prayers too.

Thesaurus chastity: (n) honor, purity, abstinence, nobleman: (n) patrician, aristocrat, intensity, intensify, magnify; (n) virtue, innocence, chasteness, lord, peer, marquis, nobility, snowdrift, sweet sand verbena, continence, modesty, cleanliness, grandee, baron, duke, armiger, frozen dessert. austerity; (adj) honesty. spaniel: (n) sycophant, beagle, harrier, burgrave. ANTONYMS: (n) nymphomania, overwhelm: (v) overpower, defeat, clumber, bootlicker, springer, groveller, gun dog, groveler; (v) snob, lewdness, adultery. inundate, flood, overthrow, drown, gelded: (adj) emasculated, cut, deluge, crush, engulf, astound, lapdog. overturn. ANTONYMS: (v) stink: (adj, n, v) stench; (n, v) smell, castrated, cut down, gashed, down. hangman: (n) executioner, headsman, encourage, amplify, capitulate, incite, odor; (n) malodour, fetor, malodor, niff, odour, foetor; (v) fume, Pong. hanger, tormentor, tiger, boggle, install, lose, protect, submit. snowball: (v) increase, become more crossword puzzle, scrabble, wild beast, hyena. intense, add, gain, get, increase in

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BAWD. Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable.% BOULT. An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall be ploughed. MARINA. Hark, hark, you gods! BAWD. She conjures: away with her! Would she had never come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born to undo us. Will you not go the way of womenkind? Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays! [Exit.] BOULT. Come, mistress; come your ways with me. MARINA. Whither wilt thou have me? BOULT. To take from you the jewel you hold so dear. MARINA. Prithee, tell me one thing first. BOULT. Come now, your one thing. MARINA. What canst thou wish thine enemy to be? BOULT. Why, I could wish him to he my master, or rather, my mistress. MARINA. Neither of these are so had as thou art, Since they do better thee in their command.

Thesaurus crack: (n, v) chink, fracture, split, fissure, crevice, burst, snap, breach, clap, check; (n) cleft. ANTONYMS: (n, v) mend; (v) set, misunderstand, misinterpret, fix, compose; (adj) mediocre, lowly, inferior, deficient. dish: (n) basin, disk, plate, meal, platter, food, saucer, beauty, meat, repast; (n, v) hollow. enemy: (n) antagonist, opponent, foe, opposition, competitor, enmity, assailant, foeman, hostile, besieger;

(adj, n) rival. ANTONYMS: (n) ally, friend, supporter, benefactor, defender, fan. hang: (adj, n, v) suspend; (v) dangle, depend, drape, float, fall, hover, append, string up; (n, v) delay; (adj) hung. marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get married, link, conjoin, wive, splice, tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage. ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate, split.

master: (n) captain, instructor, lord; (v) control, conquer, command, dominate, defeat; (adj, n) original, head, ace. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, servant, novice, amateur. ploughed: (v) plucked. ANTONYM: (adj) unplowed. rosemary: (n) herb, thyme, Labiatae, rosmary, Rosmarinus, rosmarine, pot herbs, parsley, mint family, Lamiaceae, sage.

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Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend Of hell would not in reputation change: Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib; To the choleric fisting of every rogue Thy ear is liable, thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.% BOULT. What would you have me do? go to the wars, would you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one? MARINA. Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth; Serve by indenture to the common hangman: Any of these ways are yet better than this; For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak, Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods Would safely deliver me from this place! Here, here's gold for thee. If that thy master would gain by me, Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast; And I will undertake all these to teach. I doubt not but this populous city will Yield many scholars. BOULT. But can you teach all this you speak of? MARINA. Prove that I cannot, take me home again,

Thesaurus baboon: (n) chacma, mandrill, Bavian, guard, official, functionary. inquiring: (adj) inquisitive, quizzical, family Cercopithecidae, babion, Cercopithecidae, oaf; (adj) harridan, interested, analytical, probing, intrusive; (adj, n) questioning; (v) toad, specter, scarecrow. choleric: (adj) angry, irascible, inquire; (n) enquiry, question, examination. ANTONYM: (adj) passionate, peppery, fiery, cantankerous, quick-tempered, uninquiring. populous: (adj) multitudinous, quarrelsome, cross, snappish, hotheaded. crowded, densely populated, doorkeeper: (n) porter, ostiary, multiple, thick, inhabited, numerous, manifold, multiplied; (adj, v) teeming; gatekeeper, usher, commissionaire, (v) closely packed. ANTONYM: (adj) concierge, doorman, janitor, door

uninhabited. teach: (v) enlighten, educate, instruct, coach, indoctrinate, drill, learn, lecture, school; (adj, v) guide, show. virtues: (n) brawn, sinew, qualities, nerve, manner, habit, disposition, custom. weave: (v) twine, braid, knit, entwine, interweave, wind, waver, plait, fabricate, inweave; (n) texture. ANTONYMS: (v) separate, unweave, unpick.

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And prostitute me to the basest groom That doth frequent your house.% BOULT. Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee, I will. MARINA. But amongst honest women. BOULT. 'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them. But since my master and mistress have bought you, there's no going but by their consent: therefore I will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough. ome, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways. [Exeunt.]

Thesaurus acquaintance: (n) connection, friend, acquaintanceship, mate, awareness, associate, buddy, friendship, intercourse, companion; (n, v) knowledge. ANTONYMS: (n) ignorance, inexperience, unfamiliarity, animosity, enemy. acquainted: (adj) knowledgeable, informed, aware, cognizant, conversant, hand and glove, intimate, thick; (adv) abreast; (v) inform, acquaint.

bought: (n) crook, hook. frequent: (adj, v) customary, usual, ordinary, incessant; (adj) everyday, many, familiar, continual, habitual; (v) patronize, haunt. ANTONYMS: (adj) infrequent, occasional, intermittent, spasmodic, unusual, few; (v) shun, boycott, avoid. lies: (n) fabrication, falsehood, lie, lying, deceit, defamation, denigration, dishonesty, slander, libel, treachery. ANTONYM: (n)

truth. prostitute: (n) courtesan, harlot, bawd, hooker, fancy woman, cocotte, whore, tart; (adj, v) pervert; (v) profane, abuse. tractable: (adj, prep) docile; (adj) obedient, ductile, tame, gentle, yielding, manageable; (adj, v) pliable, flexible, pliant, plastic. ANTONYMS: (adj) intractable, unmanageable, unruly, rebellious. women: (n) sex, gentle sex.

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[Enter GOWER.] GOWER. Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances Into an honest house, our story says. She sings like one immortal, and she dances As goddess-like to her admired lays; Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her neeld composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her art sistrs the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry: That pupils lacks she none of noble race, Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place; And to her father turn our thoughts again, Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost; Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,

Thesaurus admired: (adj) respected, admirable, estimable, favorite, pet, beloved, honored, August, loved, accepted, popular. ANTONYM: (adj) disreputable. anchor: (n) mainstay, armature, grappling iron, grapnel, chapelet; (v) fasten, secure, cast anchor, fix; (adj) refuge, rest. ANTONYMS: (v) release, detach. bounty: (adj, n) largesse; (n) abundance, bounteousness,

premium, blessing, prize, stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem, munificence, beneficence, generosity; infuse; (n, v) overflow. ANTONYMS: (v) benefaction; (n, v) gift. (v) drizzle, trickle. ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, fine, silk: (adj) silky, down, silken, velure, velvet; (n) silks, satin, cloth, animal insufficiency, penalty, meanness. immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, fiber, fabric, dental floss. undying, endless, monumental; (adj, twin: (adj, n, v) duplicate; (n, v) match, v) deathless, imperishable, mate, pair, equal, fellow, parallel; (n) celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. counterpart; (adj) dual, matching; (v) ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, couple. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlike, forgettable, perishable, temporary. singular, single, different. pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter,

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His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense; And to him in his barge with fervour hies. In your supposing once more put your sight Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark: Where what is done in action, more, if might, Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark. [Exit.] SCENE I. ON BOARD PERICLES' SHIP, OFF MYTILENE.%

[A close pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel.] [Enter two SAILORS, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS.] TYRIAN SAILOR. [To the SAILOR of Mytilene.] Where is lord Helicanus? he can resolve you. O, here he is. Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene, And in it is Lysimachus the governor, Who craves to come aboard. What is your will? HELICANUS. That he have his. Call up some gentlemen. TYRIAN SAILOR. Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls. [Enter two or three GENTLEMEN.] FIRST GENTLEMAN. Doth your lordship call?

Thesaurus barge: (n) lighter, pontoon, boat, hoy, drapery, blind, screen, mantle, mask, shade, pall, shroud; (v) hide. wherry, houseboat, scow, craft, flatboat, buss; (v) obtrude. deck: (v) clothe, embellish, beautify, belonging: (adj) appertaining, bedeck, ornament, array, attire, dress, appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n) decorate, grace; (n, v) floor. ANTONYMS: (v) strip, unclothe. household, family, appendage, appurtenance, intimacy, commodity, fervour: (n) ardour, fervidness, closeness. ANTONYM: (n) antipathy. fervency, fervor, ardor, enthusiasm, couch: (n) bed, sofa, settee, divan; (adj, eagerness, zest, elan, ardency, fire. v) lie; (v) express, put, frame, lower, lying: (adj) false, deceptive, repose; (adj) recline. mendacious, untrue, misleading, curtain: (n, v) cover; (n) barrier, fraudulent; (n) lie, falsehood,

fabrication, deceit, dishonesty. ANTONYMS: (n) honesty, truthfulness; (adj) truthful. sable: (adj) black, dark, dusky, sombre, murky, mournful; (n) ebony, fur, blackness, marten, pitch black. supposing: (adv) admitting, conditionally, in case; (n) supposition, conjecture, thought, theory, assumption; (conj) although, what if; (v) suppose.

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HELICANUS. Gentlemen, there s some of worth would come aboard; I pray ye, greet them fairly. [The GENTLEMEN and the two SAILORS descend, and go on board the barge. Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and LORDS; with the GENTLEMEN and the two SAILORS.% TYRIAN SAILOR. Sir, This is the man that can, in aught you would, Resolve you. LYSIMACHUS. Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you! HELICANUS. And you, sir, to outlive the age I am, And die as I would do. LYSIMACHUS. You wish me well. Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs, Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us, I made to it, to know of whence you are. HELICANUS. First, what is your place? LYSIMACHUS. I am the governor Of this place you lie before. HELICANUS. Sir, Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king; A man who for this three months hath not spoken

Thesaurus board: (v) get on, lodge; (n) panel, bench, meal, office, sign, court, plank, embark; (n, v) table. ANTONYMS: (v) disembark, dislodge, leave, evict, detrain, deplane, dismount. descend: (v) settle, condescend, down, drop, deign, subside, go down, dismount, derive, get off, come down. ANTONYMS: (v) ascend, climb, float, scale, increase, level, mount. greet: (n, v) receive; (v) address,

acknowledge, hail, welcome, cry, salute, bid, weep, meet, recognize. honouring: (n) homage, accolade. outlive: (v) survive, live, endure, overlive, live through, make it, overbide, overcome, remain, supervive, subsist. reverend: (n) preacher, clergyman, parson, rector, vicar, pastor, priest, minister, churchman; (adj) respectable, honourable. ride: (n, v) outing; (adj, v) bestride; (n)

run, lift, jaunt; (v) mount, bait, float, rag, tease, harass. spoken: (adj) verbal, expressed, speaking, speak, unwritten, vocal, voiced, talk, said, informal, conversational. ANTONYMS: (adj) written, unspoken, tacit, formal, silent. thence: (adv) therefore, thus, therefrom, thereof, consequently, then, so, thereafter, thenceforth, since, on account of.

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To any one, nor taken sustenance But to prorogue his grief.% LYSIMACHUS. Upon what ground is his distemperature? HELICANUS. 'Twould be too tedious to repeat; But the main grief springs from the loss Of a beloved daughter and a wife. LYSIMACHUS. May we not see him? HELICANUS. You may; But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any. LYSIMACHUS. Yet let me obtain my wish. HELICANUS. Behold him. [PERICLES discovered.] This was a goodly person. Till the disaster that, one mortal night, Drove him to this. LYSIMACHUS. Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you! Hail, royal sir! HELICANUS. It is in vain; he will not speak to you. FIRST LORD. Sir,

Thesaurus beloved: (adj, n) dear, darling, favorite, pet; (adj) precious, loved, cherished; (n) love, dearest, honey, sweetheart. ANTONYMS: (adj) detested, despised, disliked. bootless: (adj) futile, useless, vain, idle, inefficacious, inutile, unavailing, sleeveless, abortive, ineffective, feckless. distemperature: (n) distemperment, distemperance. hail: (v) address, cry, acclaim,

applaud, summon, accost, fall, cheer, dry. ANTONYMS: (adj) exciting, salute; (n, v) call; (n) greeting. varied, easy, readable, lively, ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, criticize. entertaining, enthralling, brisk, prorogue: (v) adjourn, defer, delay, concise, exotic, pleasant. vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, shelve, retire, withdraw, suspend, prolong, hold over, hold up, waive. fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show, ineffectual, unproductive, aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, see; narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. (n) view, prospect, scene. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, tedious: (adj) tiresome, boring, dreary, possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, slow, heavy, humdrum, irksome, humble, useful, responsible, lifeless; (adj, v) monotonous, arid, worthwhile, effective.

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We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager, Would win some words of him.% LYSIMACHUS. 'Tis well bethought. She questionless with her sweet harmony And other chosen attractions, would allure, And make a battery through his deafen'd parts, Which now are midway stopp'd: She is all happy as the fairest of all, And, with her fellow maids, is now upon The leafy shelter that abuts against The island's side. [Whispers a LORD, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS.] HELICANUS. Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you That for our gold we may provision have, Wherein we are not destitute for want, But weary for the staleness. LYSIMACHUS. O, sir, a courtesy Which if we should deny, the most just gods For every graff would send a catepillar, And so afflict our province. Yet once more Let me entreat to know at large the cause Of your king's sorrow. HELICANUS. Sit, sir, I will recount it to you: But, see, I am prevented.

Thesaurus afflict: (n, v) pain, distress; (v) trouble, foliose, foliate, leafed, luxuriant, questionless: (adj) incontrovertible, grieve, torment, hurt, strike, foliaceous, leaved, bowery, unquestionable, certain, indubitable; flourishing. ANTONYMS: (adj) (adv) certainly. aggrieve, smite, bother, disturb. ANTONYMS: (v) aid, comfort, recount: (v) tell, recite, relate, describe, leafless, urban, withering. midway: (adj) middle, center, encourage, help, soothe. enumerate, inform, detail, rehearse, destitute: (adj) impoverished, needy, intermediate, central, median; (n) count, report, convey. staleness: (n) triteness, mustiness, bankrupt, broke, poor, helpless, tract, middle of the road, impecunious, penniless, necessitous; intermediary, battle of midway; (adv) oldness, banality, camp, moldiness, (adj, v) forlorn, devoid. ANTONYMS: in the middle; (prep) between. collapse, dankness, obviousness, (adj) wealthy, privileged, prosperous, ANTONYM: (adj) extreme. tiredness, dullness. ANTONYMS: (n) prevented: (adj) disallowed, barred, solvent. freshness, crispness, originality. leafy: (adj) green, verdant, lush, banned. ANTONYM: (adj) legitimate.

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[Re-enter, from the barge, LORD, with MARINA, and a young LADY.] LYSIMACHUS. O, here is The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one! Is't not a goodly presence? HELICANUS. She's a gallant lady.% LYSIMACHUS. She's such a one, that, were I well assured Came of a gentle kind and noble stock, I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed. Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty Expect even here, where is a kingly patient: If that thy prosperous and artificial feat Can draw him but to answer thee in aught, Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay As thy desires can wish. MARINA. Sir, I will use My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided That none but I and my companion maid Be suffer'd to come near him. LYSIMACHUS. Come, let us leave her, And the gods make her prosperous! [MARINA sings.] LYSIMACHUS. Mark'd he your music?

Thesaurus artificial: (adj) affected, theatrical, underprivileged, impoverished. receive: (v) get, admit, assume, have, unreal, unnatural, strained, manmade, bogus, forced, phony, feigned, welcome, bear, obtain, adopt, make, false. ANTONYMS: (adj) genuine, greet, embrace. ANTONYMS: (v) real, sincere, authentic, organic, refuse, disburse, lose, mail, present, untreated. spend, dispatch. prosperous: (adj, n) lucky, auspicious, sacred: (adj) holy, hallowed, dedicated, fortunate; (adj) flourishing, favorable, consecrated, divine, religious, pious, spiritual, inviolable, blessed; (adj, v) opulent, easy, comfortable, affluent, solemn. ANTONYMS: (adj) profane, advantageous, successful. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressed, unconsecrated, cursed, breakable. skill: (n) artifice, capacity, capability, unsuccessful, failing,

knack, ability, faculty, finesse, cleverness, expertise; (adj, n) craft, cunning. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, incompetence, uselessness, stupidity, ineptness, tactlessness, inexperience, ignorance, inaccuracy, delay, drawback. utmost: (adj, n) maximum, extreme, uttermost, furthermost, best, highest; (adj, adv) farthest; (adj, v) supreme; (adj) last, furthest; (adj, n, v) greatest. ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, worst.

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MARINA. No, nor look'd on us, LYSIMACHUS. See, she will speak to him.% MARINA. Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear. PERICLES. Hum, ha! MARINA. I am a maid, My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes, But have been gazed on like a cornet: she speaks, My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd. Though wayward fortune did malign my state, My derivation was from ancestors Who stood equivalent with mighty kings: But time hath rooted out my parentage, And to the world and awkward casualties Bound me in servitude. [Aside.] I will desist; But there is something glows upon my cheek, And whispers in mine ear 'Go not till he speak.' PERICLES. My fortunes -- parentage -- good parentage -To equal mine! -- was it not thus? what say you? MARINA. I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage. You would not do me violence.

Thesaurus awkward: (adj) inconvenient, clumsy, derivation: (n) ancestry, origin, birth, invited: (adj) welcomer, wanted, embarrassing, uncomfortable, extraction, source, cause, lineage, cherished. malign: (v) defame, disparage, ungainly, untoward, crude, inept, derivative, foundation, descent, etymology. ANTONYMS: (n) result, asperse, libel, badmouth, vilify; (adj) sticky, left-handed, heavy. ANTONYMS: (adj) graceful, easy, outgrowth. malevolent, harmful, malefic, injurious, evil. ANTONYMS: (v) adroit, manageable, straightforward, equivalent: (n) counterpart, match; (adj) comparable, analogous, even, praise, compliment; (adj) benign, simple, dexterous, rotund, convenient, helpful, skillful. alike, matching, same, identical, like; beneficial, harmless. cornet: (n) bugle, trumpet, bugle-cap, (n, v) consideration. ANTONYMS: rooted: (adj, v) fixed; (adj) ingrained, (adj, n) dissimilar; (adj) unlike, trombone, ophicleide, ensign, immovable, inveterate, firm, set, frozen, riveted, irremovable; (v) cornopean, centurion, car horn, differing, diverse, incompatible, officer, brigadier. unequal. imbedded, posited.

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PERICLES. I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me. You are like something that -- What country-woman? Here of these shores? MARINA. No, nor of any shores: Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am No other than I appear.% PERICLES. I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping. My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows; Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight; As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like And cased as richly; in pace another Juno; Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, The more she gives them speech. Where do you live? MARINA. Where I am but a stranger: from the deck You may discern the place. PERICLES. Where were you bred? And how achieved you these endowments, which You make more rich to owe? MARINA. If I should tell my history, it would seem Like lies disdain'd in the reporting. PERICLES. Prithee, speak: Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st

Thesaurus achieved: (adj) finished, fulfilled. way. cased: (adj) bound, sheathed, incased. inch: (n) in, bit, column inch, morsel; discern: (v) differentiate, see, (v) crawl, creep, ease; (adj) tatter, comprehend, detect, distinguish, mite, seed, shive. make out, perceive, find, note; (n, v) mortally: (adv) lethally, deadly, descry; (adj, v) recognize. pestilently, perniciously, extremely, ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, neglect, humanly, grievously, poisonously, disregard, observe, overlook. individually, killingly, dangerously. feeds: (n) feeding. ANTONYM: (adv) mildly. forth: (adv) away, along, onward, reporting: (n) coverage, notification, ahead, before, on, off, on the high insurance, performance reporting, road, on the road, on the way, under news, line reporting, publication,

insurance coverage, registration, announcement; (adv) under. richly: (adv) wealthily, copiously, opulently, lavishly, abundantly, sumptuously, affluently, profusely, amply, plentifully, fully. ANTONYMS: (adv) meagerly, poorly, simply, barely. stature: (n) height, altitude, standing, tallness, prestige, figure, growth, status, quality, rank, greatness.

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Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will believe thee, And make my senses credit thy relation To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends? Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back -Which was when I perceived thee -- that thou earnest From good descending? MARINA. So indeed I did.% PERICLES. Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury, And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine, If both were open'd. MARINA. Some such thing, I said, and said no more but what my thoughts Did warrant me was likely. PERICLES. Tell thy story; If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. What were thy friends? How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin? Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me. MARINA. My name is Marina.

Thesaurus descending: (v) descend; (adj) downhill, down, descendent, decreasing, dropping, falling, sloping, degressive, occasive; (adv) downward. ANTONYM: (adj) upward. endurance: (adj, n) sufferance; (n) stamina, tolerance, courage, permanence, continuance, energy, fortitude, tenacity, duration, toughness. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, inconsistency, impatience,

frailty, discontinuation, discontinuance, death. gazing: (adj) fixed. graves: (n) Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves. loved: (adj) beloved, pet, cherished, precious, liked, adored, respected, treasured, esteemed, valued; (n) darling. ANTONYM: (adj) hated. perceived: (adj) sensed, apparent, supposed, professed, ostensible. push: (n, v) press, thrust, impel, jolt,

force, jab, nudge, crowd, prod, poke; (v) jostle. ANTONYMS: (v) drag, haul, unpack, inhibit, leave, oppose, prevent, restrain, understate, calm; (n) apathy. senses: (adj) sober senses, sound mind; (n) reason, mind, conception, consciousness, judgment, faculties, mother wit, right mind, sanity. thousandth: (adj) millesimal; (n) simple fraction.

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PERICLES. O, I am mock'd, And thou by some incensed god sent hither To make the world to laugh at me.% MARINA. Patience, good sir, Or here I'll cease. PERICLES. Nay, I'll be patient. Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me, To call thyself Marina. MARINA. The name Was given me by one that had some power, My father, and a king. PERICLES. How! a king's daughter? And call'd Marina? MARINA. You said you would believe me; But, not to be a troubler of your peace, I will end here. PERICLES. But are you flesh and blood? Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy? Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born? And wherefore call'd Marina? MARINA. Call'd Marina For I was born at sea.

Thesaurus born: (adj) native, natural, congenital, inbred, inborn, innate, inherent, untutored; (v) be born, to be born, arise. ANTONYMS: (adj) learned, unborn, acquired, trained. flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, frame, person, mankind, humanity, meat. incensed: (adj) angry, exasperated, enraged, indignant, irate, infuriated, irritated, mad, livid, angered,

aggravated. ANTONYM: (adj) amaze, shake, threaten, electrify. ANTONYM: (v) soothe. pleased. laugh: (n, v) joke, giggle, chortle, titter, troubler: (n) inciter, fomenter, trouble snicker; (v) smile; (n) jest, gag, jape, maker, trickster, tricker, rioter, laughter, cackle. ANTONYM: (v) instigant, hoaxer, hellhound, bad hat, weep. instigator. pulse: (n, v) throb; (n) pulsation, wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore; (adv, n) why; (n) reason, proof; (adv) impulse, heartbeat, legume, rhythm, pounding, cadence; (v) pulsate, accordingly, consequently, so, wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then. palpitate, pound. startle: (n, v) start, jump; (v) frighten, scare, astonish, shock, astound,

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PERICLES. At sea! what mother? MARINA. My mother was the daughter of a king; Who died the minute I was born, As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft Deliver'd weeping.% PERICLES. O, stop there a little! [Aside.] This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be: My daughter's buried. Well: where were: you bred? I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story, And never interrupt you. MARINA. You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er. PERICLES. I will believe you by the syllable Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave: How came you in these parts? where were you bred? MARINA. The king my father did in Tarsus leave me; Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife, Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do 't, A crew of pirates came and rescued me; Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir. Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? It may be, You think me an impostor: no, good faith;

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I am the daughter to King Pericles, If good King Pericles be.% PERICLES. Ho, Helicanus! HELICANUS. Calls my lord? PERICLES. Thou art a grave and noble counsellor, Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst, What this maid is, or what is like to be, That thus hath made me weep? HELICANUS. I know not; but Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene Speaks nobly of her. LYSIMACHUS. She would never tell Her parentage; being demanded that, She would sit still and weep. PERICLES. O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir; Give me a gash, put me to present pain; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither, Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget; Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus, And found at sea again! O Helicanus, Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.

Thesaurus buried: (adj) hidden, covert, interred, slit, break, rip, slice, crack, score; (n) underground, inhumed, profound, fissure. covered, ulterior; (v) perdu, imbed, nobly: (adv) generously, embed. ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, magnificently, grandly, greatly, overt. splendidly, honorably, heroically, drown: (v) drench, submerge, aristocratically, bravely, overwhelm, choke, engulf, flood, magnanimously, courageously. ANTONYMS: (adv) immorally, swamp, inundate, suffocate, asphyxiate; (adj, n, v) sink. poorly, timidly. ANTONYMS: (v) float, swim, regent: (n) trustee, experrection, amplify, dry. protector, viceregent, vizier, vicar, gash: (n, v) slash, scratch, tear, wound, superintendent, curator, governor,

viceroy; (adj) regnant. rushing: (adv) rushingly; (n) haste, hurry, hurrying, running, hastening, flush, movement; (adj) flowing, headlong, moving. sweetness: (n) sugariness, sweet, redolence, pleasantness, fragrance, aroma, charm, perfume, amenity, niceness, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) sourness, sharpness, unpleasantness, harshness, tastelessness, unkindness.

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What was thy mother's name? tell me but that, For truth can never be confirm'd enough, Though doubts did ever sleep MARINA. First, sir, I pray, What is your title? PERICLES. I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said Thou hast been godlike perfect, The heir of kingdoms and another like To Pericles thy father.% MARINA. Is it no more to be your daughter than To say my mother's name was Thaisa? Thaisa was my mother, who did end The minute I began. PERICLES. Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child. Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus; She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been, By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all; When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge She is thy very princess. Who is this? HELICANUS. Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene, Who, hearing of your melancholy state, Did come to see you. PERICLES. I embrace you.

Thesaurus blessing: (n) benediction, approval, gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, exclude, spurn, shun, renounce, dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, mercy, felicity, benison, benefit, luck, release, loose, disbelieve. godlike: (adj) celestial, heavenly, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess, advantage, boon, bless, godsend. ANTONYMS: (n) curse, misfortune, seraphic, holy, angelic, godly, divine depression. ANTONYMS: (n) disaster, condemnation, adversity, worship, deified, elysian, foreboding, happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery, desecration, refusal, veto, divine songs. heir: (n) beneficiary, successor, disadvantage. satisfied. doubts: (adj) doubting. offspring, inheritor, heiress, receiver, savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious; embrace: (v) comprise, adopt, (adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel, progeny, heritor, descendant, scion, issue. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n) comprehend, contain, admit, espouse, include; (n, v) clasp, hug, brute; (n) vandal. ANTONYMS: (adj) donor. grip, bosom. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) civilized, gentle, nice.

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Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding. O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music? Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, How sure you are my daughter. But, what music? HELICANUS. My lord, I hear none.% PERICLES. None! The music of the spheres! List, my Marina. LYSIMACHUS. It is not good to cross him; give him way PERICLES. Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear? LYSIMACHUS. My lord, I hear. [Music.] PERICLES. Most heavenly music! It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest. [Sleeps.] LYSIMACHUS. A pillow for his head: So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends, If this but answer to my just belief, I'll well remember you. [Exeunt all but PERICLES.] [DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision.]

Thesaurus bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, condemn, disapprove, damn, disallow, deny. heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, miserable, infernal, hellish, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent.

listening: (v) listen, hear, obey; (n) auscultation, perception, sensing, audition, audience, earshot, auditory modality; (adj) attentive. pillow: (v) rest, breathe, lie, not move; (adj) wadding; (n) throw pillow, Wanger, bed pillow, feather bed, long pillow, padding. robes: (n) garb, fine clothes, costume, best clothes. thick: (adj) compact, stupid, crowded, slow, opaque, dull, heavy, stocky,

deep, close, familiar. ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, intelligent, sparse, bright, slight, clever, transparent, diluted, fine, clear, runny. wild: (adj, n, v) waste, desert; (adj, v) fierce, violent, reckless, raging; (adj) boisterous, untamed, stormy, rude, desolate. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, orderly, manageable, sane, domestic, cultivated, tame, restrained, mild, sensible, passive.

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DIANA. My %temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither, And do upon mine altar sacrifice. There, when my maiden priests are met together, Before the people all, Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife: To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call And give them repetition to the life. Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe: Do it, and happy; by my silver bow! Awake, and tell thy dream. [Disappears.] PERICLES. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine, I will obey thee. Helicanus! [Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA.] HELICANUS. Sir? PERICLES. My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike The inhospitable Cleon; but I am For other service first: toward Ephesus Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why [To LYSIMACHUS.] Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore, And give you gold for such provision As our intents will need? LYSIMACHUS. Sir, With all my heart; and when you come ashore, I have another suit.

Thesaurus altar: (n) shrine, Communion table, sanctuary, table, structure, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, construction, examination hall, holy of Holies. bidding: (n) behest, order, dictate, charge, bid, request, call, dictation, direction, fiat; (adj) imperative. eftsoons: (adv) eft, close upon, in the sequel, thereafter, thereupon, next, upon which, eftsoon. goddess: (n) divinity, God, beauty, nymph; (adj, n) idol; (adj) duck,

comply with; (n, v) mind, heed. darling, angel, Dulcinea, ladylove, ANTONYMS: (v) disobey, defy, inamorata. inhospitable: (adj) unsociable, cold, break, transgress, infringe, challenge, hostile, unfriendly, cool, harsh, deny. refresh: (v) air, enliven, invigorate, barren, austere, frosty, stark, bleak. ANTONYMS: (adj) hospitable, update, comfort, regenerate, rejuvenate, cool, renew, restore; (adj) welcoming, sheltered, lush, mild. maiden: (n) maid, girl, demoiselle, refreshing. ANTONYMS: (v) exhaust, damosel, wench, fille, lass, miss; (adj) tire, weary, stagnate, drain, kill. when: (adv, conj) once, as soon as; (adv) first, initiatory, unmarried. obey: (v) comply, listen, keep, fulfill, then, because, than, since, after; (conj) although, while, if; (prep) during. hear, conform, abide by, serve,

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PERICLES. You shall prevail, Were you to woo my daughter; for it seems You have been noble towards her.% LYSIMACHUS. Sir, lend me your arm. PERICLES. Come, my Marina. [Exeunt.]

SCENE II. ENTER GOWER, BEFORE THE TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHESUS. GOWER. Now our sands are almost run; More a little, and then dumb. This, my last boon, give me, For such kindness must relieve me, That you aptly will suppose What pageantry, what feats, what shows, What minstrelsy, and pretty din, The regent made in Mytilene To greet the king. So he thrived, That he is promised to be wived To fair Marina; but in no wise Till he had done his sacrifice, As Dian bade: whereto being bound, The interim, pray you, all confound. In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,

Thesaurus aptly: (adv) fitly, appropriately, briefness: (n) shortness, duration, adroitly, appositely, fittingly, length, brief, fleeting, short in time properly, readily, felicitously, duration, terseness, succinctness, handily, ably, pronely. ANTONYMS: conciseness, concision, transience. (adv) incompetently, unsuitably. interim: (adj) transitory, acting, bade: (v) bid, command, bad. provisional, impermanent, transient; boon: (n) blessing, benefit, mercy, (n) interval, interlude, pause, while, concession, good, gratuity; (n, v) lag; (adv) meantime. ANTONYM: benefaction, gift, grant; (adj) jocund, (adj) permanent. hilarious. ANTONYMS: (n) minstrelsy: (n) orchestra, prowess, disadvantage, privation, disaster, troupe, company, glee, art, minus. merriment, lay, joy, ballad, gayety.

pageantry: (n) ostentation, grandeur, glitter, pomp, display, glory, magnificence, spectacle, show, splendor, ceremony. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, understatement. promised: (adj) pledged, affianced, betrothed, busy, devoted, employed, greatly interested, intended, involved; (v) benempt, named. sands: (n) littoral, litoral, beach, coast, quicksands, shore. whereto: (adv) which, whither.

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And wishes fall out as they're will'd. At Ephesus, the temple see, Cur king and all his company. That he can hither come so soon, Is by your fancy's thankful doom. [Exit.]

SCENE III. THE TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHESUS.% [THAISA standing near the altar, as high priestess; a number of VIRGINS on each side; CERIMON and other inhabitants of EPHESUS attending.] [Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a LADY.] PERICLES. Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command, I here confess myself the king of Tyre; Who, frighted from my country, did wed At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa. At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess, Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years He sought to murder: but her better stars Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us, Where by her own most clear remembrance, she Made known herself my daughter.

Thesaurus childbed: (n) confinement, childbirth, labor, labour, birth, accouchement, parturition, parturiency, travail, birthing. confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor. fourteen: (adj, n) XIV. inhabitants: (n) population, citizens, populace, folk, country, community,

abode, group, inhabitation, nation, natives. nursed: (adj) care, suckled. priestess: (n) priest. remembrance: (n, v) recollection, mind; (n) commemoration, memorial, recall, relic, monument, keepsake, reminiscence, recognition; (adj, n) memento. silver: (n) money, gold, bullion, precious Metals; (adj) silvery, argent, white, silvern, gray, neutral tint; (v)

plate. temple: (n) church, place of worship, shrine, Fane, house of worship, pantheon, pagoda, synagogue, brow, sanctuary, mosque. thankful: (adj) appreciative, indebted, beholden, obliged, contented, pleased, gratified, relieved, under obligation, appreciatory, welcome. ANTONYMS: (adj) worried, unappreciative, unthankful, sorry.

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THAISA. Voice and favour! You are, you are -- O royal Pericles! [Faints.] PERICLES. What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen! CERIMON. Noble sir, If you have told Diana's altar true, This is your wife.% PERICLES. Reverend appearer, no; I threw her overboard with these very arms. CERIMON. Upon this coast, I warrant you. PERICLES. 'Tis most certain. CERIMON. Look to the lady; O, she's but o'er-joy'd. Early in blustering morn this lady was Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin, Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and placed her Here in Diana's temple. PERICLES. May we see them? CERIMON. Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is Recovered.

Thesaurus arms: (n) armament, coat of arms, weaponry, ammunition, shield, ordnance, order, munition, hardware, blazon; (adj) armed. blustering: (adj, v) stormy; (adj) raging, blusterous, blustery, turbulent, loud, vaporing, vociferous, noisy, hectoring; (adv) blusteringly. coast: (n) shore, bank, seaside, beach, seashore, waterside, brink; (n, v) slide, glide; (adj) coastal; (v) drift. ANTONYMS: (v) bump, lurch,

struggle; (n) inland, Midlands. break of the day. invite: (v) tempt, allure, bid, call, placed: (adj) situated, laid, set, entice, ask, summon, attract, receive, positioned, arranged, fixed, sited, solicit; (n) invitation. ANTONYMS: collocate, determined, dictated, (v) elect, repel. hardened. lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, rich: (adj, n) copious, luxurious; (adj) countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, productive, fruitful, full, deep, milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. prolific, opulent, fat, affluent; (adj, v) ANTONYM: (n) Lord. fertile. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, morn: (n) dawn, daybreak, forenoon, impoverished, destitute, broke, light, period, prime, aurora, a, amount of plain, lean, delicate, infertile, weak, time, break of dawn, break of day, barren.

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THAISA. O, let me look! If he be none of mine, my sanctity Will to my sense bend no licentious ear, But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord, Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake, Like him you are: did you not name a tempest, A birth, and death? PERICLES. The voice of dead Thaisa! THAISA. That Thaisa am I, supposed dead And drown'd.% PERICLES. Immortal Dian! THAISA. Now I know you better, When we with tears parted Pentapolis, The king my father gave you such a ring. [Shows a ring.] PERICLES. This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well, That on the touching of her lips I may Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried A second time within these arms. MARINA. My heart Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. [Kneels to THAISA.]

Thesaurus bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; (v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority. curb: (n, v) control, limit, bridle; (v) restrict, suppress, contain, conquer, restrain, confine; (adv, v) moderate; (n) kerb. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, push, help, foster, spur, assist, aid, unbridle, facilitate; (n) incentive, encouragement. licentious: (adj) lewd, immoral, filthy,

tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine, abandoned, debauched, lascivious, depraved, lecherous, loose, unchaste, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily wanton. ANTONYMS: (adj) function, bodily process, body restrained, virtuous, decent. process, lacerations. lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference per touching: (adj, v) affecting; (adj) second, chops, porch, portal, portico, poignant, pitiful, pathetic, adjacent, adjoining, emotional; (n) touch, propylon, snout, door, orifice. parted: (adj) divided, separate, contact; (prep) concerning, about. ANTONYMS: (adj) unaffecting, distributed, separated, divisible, disunited, compounder, compound, everyday, heartwarming, unmoving, dividable. heartbreaking, emotionless, sports: (n) athletics; (adj) sporting. unemotional, impassive.

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PERICLES. Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa; Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina For she was yielded there.% THAISA. Blest, and mine own! HELICANUS. Hail, madam, and my queen! THAISA. I know you not. PERICLES. You have heard me say, when did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute: Can you remember what I call'd the man I have named him oft. THAISA. 'Twas Helicanus then. PERICLES. Still confirmation: Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he. Now do I long to hear how you were found: How possibly preserved; and who to thank, Besides the gods, for this great miracle. THAISA. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man, Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can From first to last resolve you. PERICLES. Reverend sir, The gods can have no mortal officer

Thesaurus ancient: (adj) old, obsolete, antiquated, relaxation, peace, pleasure. ANTONYM: (adj) fresh. miracle: (adj, n) wonder, prodigy; (n) resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine, former, past, archaic, antique, primitive, bygone, hoary; (adj, n) phenomenon, mystery, wonderwork, solve, decide, dissolve, decompose, elder. ANTONYMS: (adj) settle; (n) determination, firmness, surprise, sensation, event, theurgy, contemporary, young, recent, fresh, astonishment, amazement. decision, resolution. ANTONYMS: named: (adj, v) called; (adj) (n) weakness, irresoluteness, new, present, youthful, current. burden: (n, v) bother, weight, pack, nominative, nominal, chosen, vacillation, cowardice, flexibility, burthen, trouble, clog, strain; (n) indecisiveness, indifference; (v) appointed, nominated, designated, anxiety, bale, responsibility; (v) titled, specified; (v) benempt, aggravate, complicate, exacerbate, afflict. ANTONYMS: (v) relieve, ycleped. waver. preserved: (adj) kept, conserved, yielded: (v) yold, yolden. lighten, free, disburden, alleviate, relax; (n, v) help; (n) tranquility, whole, pickled, condite, safe.

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More like a god than you. Will you deliver How this dead queen re-lives? CERIMON. I will, my lord Beseech you, first go with me to my house, Where shall be shown you all was found with her; How she came placed here in the temple; No needful thing omitted.% PERICLES. Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa, This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter, Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now, This ornament Makes me look dismal will I clip to form; And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify. THAISA. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir, My father's dead. PERICLES. Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen, We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves Will in that kingdom spend our following days: Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign. Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way. [Exeunt.] [Enter GOWER.]

Thesaurus beautify: (v) ornament, embellish, decorate, deck, enhance, trim, garnish, gild, dress up, improve, bead. ANTONYMS: (v) deface, strip, mar, disfigure, uglify. clip: (n, v) clasp, snip, hit, pin; (v) nip, trim, shear, shave, crop, prune; (n) buckle. ANTONYMS: (v) detach, elongate, extend, increase, unclip, undo, unfasten. longing: (n, v) desire, aspiration; (adj) eager, wistful, nostalgic; (n) nostalgia,

wish, hankering, urge, appetite; (adj, ceremonial, ceremony, espousal, n) yearning. ANTONYMS: (n) hymeneals. ANTONYM: (n) divorce. apathy, disinclination; (adj) satisfied, razor: (adj, n) straight razor; (adj) knife, cutlery, edge tool, penknife; (n) unconcerned. needful: (adj) necessary, essential, electric razor, shaver, safety razor, electric shaver, rasour; (v) epilate. indispensable, required, needed, mandatory, exigent, needy; (adj, v) untold: (adj) infinite, incalculable, requisite; (n) necessity, almighty innumerable, vast, uncounted, unnumbered, unlimited, endless; (v) dollar. nuptials: (n) wedding, matrimony, unsaid, untalked of, unpublished. bridal, wedding ceremony, marriage ANTONYMS: (adj) little, minor, ceremony, spousal, wedding party, small, tiny, open, slight.

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GOWER. In %Antiochus and his daughter you have heard Of monstrous lust the due and just reward: In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen, Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last: In Helicanus may you well descry A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty: In reverend Cerimon there well appears The worth that learned charity aye wears: For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name Of Pericles, to rage the city turn, That him and his they in his palace burn; The gods for murder seemed so content To punish them although not done but meant. So, on your patence evermore attending, New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending. [Exit.]

Thesaurus charity: (n) dole, favor, aid, liberality, temporarily, suddenly. fierce: (adj) bitter, acute, cruel, generosity, kindness, alms, mercy, virtue; (v) almsgiving; (adj, n) ferocious, brutal, grim, nasty, intense, brotherly love. ANTONYMS: (n) ardent; (adj, v) savage, furious. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, mild, intolerance, meanness, unkindness, cruelty, malice, stinginess, cheapness, calm, quiet, tame, docile, weak, nastiness, inhumanity. peaceful, pleasant. evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, learned: (adj) educated, ever; (adv) everlastingly, knowledgeable, scholarly, academic, forevermore, perpetually, ever and cultured, literary, bookish, lettered; (adj, v) enlightened, wise, knowing. again, for all time, until the end of time. ANTONYMS: (adv) ANTONYMS: (adj) innate,

unconditioned, foolish, unlearned. monstrous: (adj) huge, atrocious, heinous, monster, immense, gigantic, grievous, ugly, flagitious, dreadful; (adj, v) grotesque. ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, minute, beautiful, good, small, lovely, attractive. punish: (v) amerce, discipline, castigate, chasten, chastise, penalize, strike, avenge, pay, beat, execute. ANTONYMS: (v) excuse, exonerate, pardon, reward, commend.

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GLOSSARY abide: (v) endure, bide, undergo, tolerate, take, suffer, stomach, bear, brook; (adj, v) stay, dwell. ANTONYMS: (v) check, depart, disallow, disapprove, disbelieve, journey, dodge, leave, migrate, move, pass able: (adj) dexterous, competent, clever, ingenious, accomplished, gifted, effective, fit, expert; (adj, n) talented, efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj) incapable, incompetent, weak, untrained, inept, delicate, feeble, infirm, clumsy, ineffective, ineffectual aboard: (adv) afloat, afield, at home, there, everywhere, here, on base, onboard, where abominable: (adj, v) odious, foul; (adj) abhorrent, detestable, dreadful, awful, execrable, terrible, loathsome, cursed, wicked. ANTONYMS: (adj) nice, lovable, admirable, alluring, appealing, commendable, laudable, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, likable above: (adv, prep) beyond, aloft, on, in excess of; (adv) up, supra, on top; (adj) preceding, former; (adj, prep) past; (prep) surpassing. ANTONYMS: (prep) beneath, under, deficient, underneath; (adj) inferior, following absence: (n) absenteeism, deficiency, lack, default, dearth, want, nonattendance, scarcity, paucity, shortage, privation. ANTONYMS: (n) attendance, existence, fulfillment, inclusion, occurrence, abundance, glut, confirmation, supply, excess absolute: (adj) total, unconditional, downright, full, categorical, utter, sheer; (adj, v) peremptory, unqualified; (adj, n) positive, real. ANTONYMS: (adj) partial, qualified, incomplete, limited,

provisional, uncertain, democratic, blemished, circumscribed, comparative, complaisant abuse: (n, v) affront, insult, outrage, reproach, harm, wrong; (v) mistreat, injure, violate; (adj, v) maltreat, profane. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect; (v) compliment, protect, nurture, laud, honor, help, flatter; (n) compliments, kindness, flattery accept: (v) acknowledge, take, admit, recognize, yield, abide, accede, acquiesce, adopt, believe, assume. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, reject, deny, snub, renounce, oppose, resist, disbelieve, dispute, repudiate, quibble access: (n, v) approach; (n) admission, entry, entree, admittance, gate, entranceway, entryway, opening, outburst; (v) enter. ANTONYMS: (n) exit, outlet, egress, exclusion; (v) seal account: (n) narrative, score, tale, reckoning, narration, description, tally, tab, reason; (n, v) regard, report accounts: (n) financial statement accuse: (v) charge, incriminate, arraign, denounce, defame, criminate, indict, fault, betray, condemn, inculpate. ANTONYMS: (v) absolve, exculpate, exonerate, praise, support, clear achieved: (adj) finished, fulfilled acquaintance: (n) connection, friend, acquaintanceship, mate, awareness, associate, buddy, friendship, intercourse, companion; (n, v) knowledge. ANTONYMS: (n) ignorance, inexperience, unfamiliarity, animosity, enemy acquainted: (adj) knowledgeable, informed, aware, cognizant, conversant, hand and glove, intimate, thick; (adv) abreast; (v) inform, acquaint

action: (n, v) achievement, deed; (n) battle, play, performance, movement, accomplishment, agency, activity, fight, effect. ANTONYMS: (n) inaction, inactivity, inactiveness, ambush, stillness actions: (n) proceedings, behaviour, deeds, deportment, background, behavior, events, activities admired: (adj) respected, admirable, estimable, favorite, pet, beloved, honored, August, loved, accepted, popular. ANTONYM: (adj) disreputable adored: (adj) loved, respected, precious, idolized, idolised, acclaimed, blessed, favorite, dearly loved, beloved, venerated advance: (v) accelerate, proceed, encourage, lend; (adv, v) further; (adj, v) promote; (n, v) rise, approach, raise, offer; (n) improvement. ANTONYMS: (v) recede, demote, regress, delay, retard, prevent, reverse; (n) deterioration, recession; (n, v) decrease, downgrade advantage: (n) privilege, behalf, profit, good, preponderance, account, lead, virtue, expediency, perk; (n, v) boot. ANTONYMS: (n, v) disadvantage; (n) drawback, difficulty, detriment, hindrance, minus, restriction, obstacle, loss, inferiority, inconvenience adventure: (n, v) venture, chance; (n) accident, escapade, incident, event, undertaking, consequence, essay; (v) risk, jeopardize. ANTONYMS: (n) stillness, passiveness, inactivity, inaction, avoidance, inertia, bore adventures: (n) experiences, fortunes, confessions, journal, life, biography, autobiography, personal narrative adventurous: (adj) unsafe, venturesome, enterprising, plucky,

124 audacious, bold, courageous, daring, brave, foolhardy, rash. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, prudent, careful, timid advice: (n) warning, counsel, caution, report, exhortation, council, tidings, counselling, notice, intelligence, instruction. ANTONYMS: (n) misrepresentation, deceit, deception, lie, falsehood, betrayal, warning advise: (v) recommend, propose, warn, inform, acquaint, suggest, notify, announce, tell, offer, forewarn. ANTONYMS: (v) betray, deceive, delude, fool, trick aesculapius: (n) Hippocrates affections: (n) bosom afflict: (n, v) pain, distress; (v) trouble, grieve, torment, hurt, strike, aggrieve, smite, bother, disturb. ANTONYMS: (v) aid, comfort, encourage, help, soothe affright: (v) frighten, scare, horrify, startle, terrorize, terrify, intimidate; (n) dread, alarm, fear; (n, v) fright afore: (adv) ahead, along, before, forwards, formerly, beforehand, previously; (adj) erewhile, aforehand, theretofore, preceding again: (adv) more, then, repeatedly, anew, encore, furthermore, yet, also, often, once again, once more against: (adj, adv) counter; (prep) toward, versus, from; (pref) by; (v) oppose; (adv, prep) on; (n) opposition; (adj) unwilling, repugnant; (adv) athwart. ANTONYMS: (prep) for; (adj) eager aged: (adj) senile, elderly, older, hoary, ripe, venerable, ancient, senior, decrepit, antique, antiquated. ANTONYMS: (adj) youthful, new, fresh, green, unripe, unseasoned, smooth agreed: (adj) unanimous, approved, set, united, in agreement, accepted, agreeable; (adv, int) all right; (int) okay; (v) content; (adv) no question. ANTONYMS: (adj) changing, individual alive: (adj) live, vivacious, living, sensible, delicate, snappy, animated, lively, spry, responsive; (n) life. ANTONYMS: (adj) deceased, inanimate, unanimated, dispirited, dull, inactive, lethargic, lifeless, listless, nonfunctioning, sluggish almost: (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv) nearly, all but, near, nigh; (adv, prep) just about, approximately; (adv) just, mostly, virtually, most. ANTONYMS: (adv) surely, exactly,

Pericles definitely, certainly alone: (adj) forlorn, individual, lonely, lonesome; (adj, adv) only, apart; (adv) solely, entirely, exclusively, separately, individually. ANTONYMS: (adj) overshadowed, ordinary, mobbed, equaled, crowded, accompanied, common, grouped, surpassed; (adv) jointly; (n) foe along: (adv) ahead, alongside, forwards, forth, throughout, lengthwise, onward, before; (prep) beside, from; (n) at. ANTONYMS: (adv) across, separate, apart, far aloof: (adj) distant, reserved, cool, standoffish, unconcerned, indifferent, unfriendly, frigid, arrogant, cold; (adv) afar. ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, involved, approachable, sociable, outgoing, open, enthusiastic, relaxed, communicative, affable, respectful altar: (n) shrine, Communion table, sanctuary, table, structure, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, construction, examination hall, holy of Holies although: (adv, prep) notwithstanding; (prep) in spite of, even though, however; (adv, conj) though; (conj) whereas; (adv) even, tho, when, anyway, tho' amaze: (adj, v) astonish, surprise; (v) dumbfound, baffle, astound, stagger, puzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, alarm; (adj) astonished. ANTONYM: (v) expect amiss: (adj, adv) wrong; (adj) bad, haywire, faulty, astray, guilty; (adv) badly, poorly, awry, wrongly, adrift. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) right; (adv) perfectly, properly, suitably, appropriately, correctly, well; (adj) okay, correct, good amongst: (prep) amid, between, amidst, surrounded by, in the midst of, in the middle of, along with, with; (v) inter anchor: (n) mainstay, armature, grappling iron, grapnel, chapelet; (v) fasten, secure, cast anchor, fix; (adj) refuge, rest. ANTONYMS: (v) release, detach ancient: (adj) old, obsolete, antiquated, former, past, archaic, antique, primitive, bygone, hoary; (adj, n) elder. ANTONYMS: (adj) contemporary, young, recent, fresh, new, present, youthful, current anger: (n) fury, rage, displeasure, resentment, indignation; (v) incense,

offend, irritate, exasperate; (adj) angry; (n, v) wrath. ANTONYMS: (v) placate, pacify, tickle; (n) pleasure, composure, glee, affection, serenity, goodwill, forbearance; (n, v) calm angry: (adj) anger, furious, provoked, incensed, vehement, fierce, irate, raging, maddened, shirty, indignation. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleased, gentle, joyful, content, euphoric, mild, happy, resigned, joyous, gleeful, quiet annual: (adj, v) yearly; (n) yearbook, magazine, ephemeris, flora, annals, periodical; (adj, n) annuary; (adj) anniversary, etesian, yearlong. ANTONYMS: (adj) biennial, perennial another: (adj) second, more, alternative, additional, new, further, fresh, extra; (adj, v) other; (adj, pron) some other; (n) the other. ANTONYMS: (n, pron) same answer: (n, v) respond, retort; (v) counter, serve, resolve, acknowledge, correspond; (n) solution, defence, return, reaction. ANTONYMS: (n, v) question; (v) ask, differ, fail, ignore; (n) request, problem, invitation, poison answering: (adj) respondent, responsive, according, agreeing, responsory; (n) respondency antioch: (n) Antakya apex: (n) top, peak, vertex, crown, acme, apices, extremity, height, summit, pinnacle, point. ANTONYMS: (n) base, nadir, trough, bottom, abyss, depth appear: (v) occur, seem, sound, come out, turn up, show, emerge, break, arrive, feel, arise. ANTONYMS: (v) vanish, hide, stop, sink, recede, go, depart appears: (n) appearing applaud: (v) praise, eulogize, cheer, extol, hail, admire, clap, commend, approve, compliment, exalt. ANTONYMS: (v) criticize, disparage, lament, hiss, censure, commiserate, condemn appliance: (n) apparatus, device, gadget, facility, machine, implement, furniture, convenience, contrivance, application, gear approbation: (n, v) praise; (n) applause, agreement, approval, acclaim, sanction, commendation, admiration, permission, appreciation, favor. ANTONYMS: (n) condemnation, disapproval,

William Shakespeare criticism approve: (v) adopt, allow, accept, acknowledge, ratify, let, agree, endorse, admit, support, applaud. ANTONYMS: (v) condemn, censure, disapprove, veto, forbid, invalidate, disallow, disrespect, deny, desecrate, oppose apron: (n) skirt, proscenium, pall, pontificals, lawn sleeves, pinafore, petticoat, gathering head, wife, jupe, farthingale aptly: (adv) fitly, appropriately, adroitly, appositely, fittingly, properly, readily, felicitously, handily, ably, pronely. ANTONYMS: (adv) incompetently, unsuitably archer: (n) bowman, Sagittarius, turfman, fan, expert, shot, shooter, toxophilite, tell, bowyer armour: (n) armature, buckler, armour plate, cataphract arms: (n) armament, coat of arms, weaponry, ammunition, shield, ordnance, order, munition, hardware, blazon; (adj) armed arrived: (adv) here, at home; (adj) accepted arrow: (n) missile, bolt, dart, barb, gun, spear, bullet, cursor; (adj, n) rocket; (adj) hydrargyrum, quicksilver article: (n) thing, object, chapter, feature, commodity, composition, ware, entity, discourse, essay, column artificial: (adj) affected, theatrical, unreal, unnatural, strained, manmade, bogus, forced, phony, feigned, false. ANTONYMS: (adj) genuine, real, sincere, authentic, organic, untreated artist: (n) actor, artificer, player, master, musician, performer, draftsman, sculptor, painter, entertainer, maker. ANTONYM: (n) spectator arts: (n) humanities, liberal arts, craft, fine arts, philosophy, chronology, classicism, classicistic, historical, history, humanistic discipline ashes: (n) dust, cinders, remains, cinder, clay, earth, embers, clinker; (adj) scoriae, mother, precipitate ashore: (adv, pron) aground; (adj) beached, stranded; (adv) aland, on land, onto land, toward land assist: (n, v) aid, help, support; (v) abet, serve, contribute, boost, relieve, encourage, to help, facilitate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) impede,

oppose; (v) thwart, disrupt, hamper, hurt, stop, worsen, shun; (n) hindrance, counteract assume: (v) accept, adopt, take, appropriate, arrogate, suppose, simulate, sham, presume, usurp; (adv, v) feign. ANTONYMS: (v) relinquish, abandon, return, renounce, know, doubt, defer, appreciate, despair, speculate, surrender assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch; (v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, affirm, promise, ascertain; (adj, v) ensure. ANTONYMS: (v) alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve, undermine attempt: (n, v) endeavor, offer, struggle, assay, essay, attack; (n) effort, trial; (v) undertake, chance, aim. ANTONYMS: (n) success, fulfillment, achievement, accomplishment; (v) succeed, fulfill, achieve, accomplish, perform attend: (n, v) tend, escort, nurse, conduct; (v) assist, serve, minister, aid, look, partake, follow. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave, ignore, disregard, desert, abandon attendants: (n) entourage, followers, retinue, tendance, persons present, suite attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, nursing, care, appearing, observation; (adj) concomitant, attendant, ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, inattention attribute: (adj, n) quality, property; (n, v) assign; (n) feature, emblem, characteristic, peculiarity, mark; (v) credit, impute, accredit aught: (n) nil, zero, anything, ought, cypher, nix, cipher, naught, null, zip; (adj) any authorities: (n) polity, control, regime, federal, official authorities, palace, papacy, brain trust, ancien regime, state, empire authority: (n) ascendancy, sanction, warrant, administration, authorization, professional, judge, hold, domination, dominance; (adj, n) rule. ANTONYMS: (n) novice, neophyte, weakness, apprentice, servility, servitude, refusal, powerlessness, insecurity, inferiority, indecisiveness awake: (v) wake, awaken, realize, waken; (adj) alive, alert, attentive, conscious, keen, intelligent; (adj, v) broad awake. ANTONYMS: (adj)

125 unconscious, sleeping, comatose, sleepy, relaxed; (v) deaden, lull, sleep away: (adj, adv) abroad, absent; (adj, adv, int) out; (adj) distant; (adv) aside, aloof, afar, way, by, forth; (adv, int) off. ANTONYMS: (adj) adjacent, neighboring, nearby, near, close; (adv) intermittently, haltingly, discontinuously, in awful: (adj) fearful, dreadful, terrible, abominable, appalling, nasty, abhorrent, atrocious, bad, horrible, lousy. ANTONYMS: (adj) excellent, wonderful, marvelous, great, lovely, nice, pleasant, beautiful, pleasing, good, minor awhile: (adj) in transitu, en passant; (adv) briefly awkward: (adj) inconvenient, clumsy, embarrassing, uncomfortable, ungainly, untoward, crude, inept, sticky, left-handed, heavy. ANTONYMS: (adj) graceful, easy, adroit, manageable, straightforward, simple, dexterous, rotund, convenient, helpful, skillful babe: (n) infant, baby, chick, sweetie, suckling, nursling, child, newborn, chit, girl, darling. ANTONYMS: (n) grownup, adult, adolescent baboon: (n) chacma, mandrill, Bavian, family Cercopithecidae, babion, Cercopithecidae, oaf; (adj) harridan, toad, specter, scarecrow bade: (v) bid, command, bad baggage: (n) bag, bags, trunk, pack, gear, equipment, stuff, effects, suitcases, woman, thing bags: (n) plenty, many, belongings, loads, luggage, heaps; (adj) numberless banks: (n) thumb index, sir Joseph Banks, sidewalls, bank shares, bank balance banquet: (v) junket, revel, regale; (n) party, celebration, carousal, treat, entertainment, spread, dinner, reception. ANTONYM: (n) snack barbarous: (adj) barbaric, savage, gothic, brutal, heathen, truculent, rude, fell, ferocious, fierce, uncivilized. ANTONYMS: (adj) nice, cultured, civilized, sophisticated, refined, humane barge: (n) lighter, pontoon, boat, hoy, wherry, houseboat, scow, craft, flatboat, buss; (v) obtrude base: (adj) abject, mean, dishonorable, low, vile, ignoble, bad, contemptible; (n) foundation; (n, v) ground; (v) found.

126 ANTONYMS: (n) top, summit, frill, ceiling, apex; (adj) noble, honest, good, principled, grand, pleasant bases: (n) basis, foundation basket: (n) cage, hamper, basketful, creel, Corf, coop, bucket, spinner basket, bassinet, containerful, cradle battery: (n) troop, cell, barrage, army, suite, company, artillery, assault and battery, barrage fire, primary cell, squad bawd: (n) prostitute, fancy woman, whore, cocotte, trollop, hooker, tart, streetwalker, harlot, woman, pimp beacon: (n, v) guide; (n) cairn, flare, pharos, lighthouse, signal, light, watchtower, beacon light, buoy, sign beadle: (n) verger, catchpoll, almoner, functionary, sacristan, sexton, janitor, Suisse, tipstaff, officer, George Wells beadle bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit, abide, allow, wear, comport, tolerate, convey, teem. ANTONYMS: (v) release, avoid, destroy, dodge, take, eradicate, evade, kill, refuse, erase; (n) bull bears: (n) fissiped, badgers, Carnivora, order Carnivora beat: (n, v) pulse, throb, tick, flap, knock; (v) batter, whip, trounce, pulsate, bat; (n) round. ANTONYMS: (v) protect, help, divide, cede, aid, separate, surrender; (adj) invigorated, energized; (n) caress, pat beautify: (v) ornament, embellish, decorate, deck, enhance, trim, garnish, gild, dress up, improve, bead. ANTONYMS: (v) deface, strip, mar, disfigure, uglify beauty: (n) attractiveness, beaut, charm, pulchritude, loveliness, exquisiteness, grace, grandeur, looker, good looks; (adj) beautiful. ANTONYMS: (n) hag, plainness, shortcoming, flaw, witch, dog, disadvantage, detraction, repulsiveness, eyesore, awkwardness become: (v) grow, suit, be, match, come about, arise, get, sit, to become, fall; (adj) becoming. ANTONYMS: (v) halt, stay, lower, stop, reduce, clash becomes: (v) become befit: (adj, v) suit, become, behoove, fit; (v) beseem, pertain, sit, agree, assort; (adj) suitable, meet before: (adv) ahead, ago, in front, previously, already, forth; (adv, prep) fore, afore; (adj) preceding,

Pericles prior; (adj, adv) earlier. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) later, behind, afterward, after; (adv) subsequently, ahead; (adj) subsequent began: (v) Gan begging: (n) mendicancy, request, plea; (v) asking, beg; (adj) beseeching, entreating, mendicant, imploring, suppliant, vagabond begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate, become, enter, rise, originate, undertake, create, dawn, set out. ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease, terminate, die, delay, complete, conclude beheld: (adj) visual behind: (adj, n) back, rear; (adj, adv) backward, late; (adv) backwards, later, aback, beyond; (n) backside, can; (prep) abaft. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) early; (adv) fore; (adj) prompt behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook beholding: (n) fusion, seeing, visual perception, look belching: (n) eructation, burp, burping belfry: (n) apse, room, bell tower, head, pinnacle, belltower belief: (n) feeling, doctrine, supposition, opinion, idea, thought, impression, trust, view, confidence, assumption. ANTONYMS: (n) unbelief, doubt, disavowal, distrust, denial, rejection, uncertainty, independence, innovation believe: (n) belief, believing; (v) assume, conceive, consider, reckon, guess, accredit, to believe, understand; (n, v) trust. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, doubt, question, suspect, reject, discredit, deny, despair bellows: (n) blower, lung, bellowing, blowpipe, organ; (v) air blower, air pump, fan, punkah, ventilator bells: (n) addition, approval, matrimony, marriage, approbation, wedding belly: (n) stomach, inside, pregnancy, maw, bowels, intestines, waist, corporation; (v) balloon, swell, bloat belonging: (adj) appertaining, appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n) household, family, appendage, appurtenance, intimacy, commodity, closeness. ANTONYM: (n) antipathy

beloved: (adj, n) dear, darling, favorite, pet; (adj) precious, loved, cherished; (n) love, dearest, honey, sweetheart. ANTONYMS: (adj) detested, despised, disliked bend: (n, v) bow, turn, arch, arc, crook, twist, elbow; (adj, n, v) curve; (v) stoop, crouch; (adj, v) flex. ANTONYMS: (n, v) square; (v) align, unbend, leave beneath: (adv, prep) below, under; (adj) low, inferior; (adv) downward, infra, at a lower place; (prep) lower than, less than, unworthy of, unbefitting. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over; (adv) higher benign: (adj, n) benevolent, nice, gentle, humane; (adj) kind, affable, amiable, charitable, merciful, soft, beneficial. ANTONYMS: (adj) unkind, malevolent, malign, unfortunate, severe, selfish, misanthropic, mean, malignant, malicious, hurtful bent: (adj) curved, arched, deformed, crooked; (n) propensity, inclination, fancy, leaning, flair, gift, curvature. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, inability, aversion; (adj) undetermined, undecided, uncurved, uncaring, rigid, unbent bequeath: (n, v) will; (v) leave, give, pass on, demise, entrust, endow, devise, transmit, remember, donate. ANTONYMS: (v) disown, withdraw, take bereave: (v) strip, deprive of, divest, rob, despoil, oust, lose, abridge, seize, confiscate, debar bereft: (adj, v) cut off; (adj) destitute, devoid, forlorn, void, deprived, lovelorn, grieving, deserted, insufficient; (v) reft. ANTONYMS: (adj) fulfilled, supplied, happy, consoled, satisfied beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, offer, grant, reject beseeching: (adj) begging, suppliant, imploring, pleading, precative, supplicatory, precatory, importunate; (n) prayer; (v) plead; (adv) beseechingly. ANTONYM: (adj) imperative beside: (adv) on, abreast, aside, closely, nearly; (prep) about; (adv, prep) besides; (adj) adjacent; (n) while, at; (adj, prep) near besides: (adv) as well, moreover, too, furthermore, again, as well as, anyway, additionally; (prep) apart

William Shakespeare from, beside; (adj, adv) more best: (adj, n) supreme, most, elite; (adj) superior, great, leading, choice, superlative; (v) beat, outdo; (adj, n, v) top. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) worst; (v) lose, surrender; (adj) minimum, lowest, least, inferior, incorrect, fewest; (n) loser; (adv) insincerely bestow: (v) give, confer, grant, impart, contribute, donate, apply, award; (adj, v) accord, allow, present. ANTONYMS: (v) deprive, refuse, withhold, retrieve, withdraw betake: (v) wend, apply, address, accost, get, obtain, refer, acquire, aim, beget, attach betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell, grass, dupe, reveal, mislead, disclose, accuse, befool, bamboozle. ANTONYMS: (v) protect, undeceive, hide, defend, withhold better: (adj, v) improve, mend; (adj, adv, v) best; (v) recover, ameliorate, emend, reform, advance, enhance, surpass; (n) bettor. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) worse; (adj, n) inferior; (v) worsen, deteriorate; (adj) lesser, lower, tinier, ill, unhealthy, smaller, sicker beyond: (adj, prep) across; (adv, prep) above, without, besides, over; (adj, adv) further; (adv) away, by, more, farther, abroad. ANTONYMS: (prep) below; (adv) close, inside bidding: (n) behest, order, dictate, charge, bid, request, call, dictation, direction, fiat; (adj) imperative biggest: (adj) utmost, largest, bigger, greatest, major, most, best, superlative, top, big, main billow: (n, v) wave, surge, swell; (n) sea, cloud; (v) balloon, heave, zoom, roll, inflate, bloat. ANTONYMS: (n) trough; (v) flatten, collapse, deflate bind: (adj, v) attach, fix, fasten, affix; (n) band; (v) bandage, lace, fetter, bundle, truss, combine. ANTONYMS: (v) untie, unbind, free, unfasten, unravel, permit, loosen, loose, let; (n, v) release; (n) pleasure bird: (n) wench, poultry, fowl, girl, birdie, hen, chick, Bronx cheer, shuttlecock, archaeornis, archeopteryx birth: (n) beginning, genesis, ancestry, descent, extraction, start, onset, parentage, origin; (v) delivery; (n, v) parturition. ANTONYMS: (n) death, bereavement, ending, finale, finish, passing, end, decease, conclusion,

demise black: (adj) sable, dark, ebony, colored, bleak, dirty, evil, nigger, darkie, unclean; (adj, n) blackamoor. ANTONYMS: (v) whiten; (adj) spotless, snowy, saintly, pale, optimistic, merry, light, angelic, ivory, bright blackness: (n) black, darkness, sable, gloom, nigritude, night, inkiness, dark, murk, murkiness, obscurity blast: (adj, n, v) discharge, explosion, burst; (n, v) attack, slam, smash, boom, blight, roar; (adj, v) blow up; (v) detonate bleak: (adj) austere, bare, barren, cold, dreary, murky, black, desolate, raw, bald, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, lush, sunny, hopeful, encouraging, cheery, bright, sheltered, soulful, cozy, populated bleed: (v) run, ooze, phlebotomize, leak, percolate, shed blood, trickle, hemorrhage, fleece; (n) ache, smart bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, condemn, disapprove, damn, disallow, deny blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed, sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted, fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, condemned, damned, disapproved, unhappy, unholy, secular blessing: (n) benediction, approval, mercy, felicity, benison, benefit, luck, advantage, boon, bless, godsend. ANTONYMS: (n) curse, misfortune, disaster, condemnation, adversity, desecration, refusal, veto, disadvantage blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate, beatified, blissful, blame, blasted, blamed, golden, glorious, favored blind: (n) curtain, shutter, veil, drape, awning, trick; (v) bedazzle, dazzle, daze; (adj) sightless; (adj, v) obscure. ANTONYMS: (adj) sighted, uncovered, understanding, sharp, seeing, revealed, quick, perceptive, open, controlled, cautious blithe: (adj) cheerful, lighthearted, breezy, pleasant, merry, carefree, buoyant, facetious, gay, happy, animated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, sorrowful, miserable, downhearted, depressed, anxious, sad, heavy, gloomy, serious, troubled blither: (v) blether, babble, blather,

127 gibber, piffle, gabble, maunder, chatter, twaddle, prate, prattle blood: (n) birth, gore, nature, origin, kindred, lineage, descent, family, beau, pedigree; (adj) juice bloody: (adj) brutal, bleeding, ruddy, bloodthirsty, sanguineous, sanguine, savage, bloodstained, damned, raw; (adv) damn. ANTONYMS: (adj) easy, soft blow: (n) beat, knock, shock, wallop, gust, jolt; (adj, n, v) gasp, puff; (n, v) blast, slap; (v) squander. ANTONYMS: (n, v) calm; (v) save, conserve, store, stillness, inhale, come, arrive; (n) luck, comfort, caress blown: (adj) puffy, panting, swollen, winded, inflated, moving, high, haughty lofty, late; (v) puffing and blowing; (n) blowen blush: (n, v) glow, color; (v) redden, crimson; (n) red, bloom, rosiness, ruddiness, redness; (adj) bashful; (adv) blushingly. ANTONYMS: (v) blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness blustering: (adj, v) stormy; (adj) raging, blusterous, blustery, turbulent, loud, vaporing, vociferous, noisy, hectoring; (adv) blusteringly board: (v) get on, lodge; (n) panel, bench, meal, office, sign, court, plank, embark; (n, v) table. ANTONYMS: (v) disembark, dislodge, leave, evict, detrain, deplane, dismount boat: (n) yacht, steamship, ark, scull, craft, steamboat, dinghy, pinnace, ship, gondola, hoy boatswain: (n) bosun, cockswain, tar, seaman, seafarer, gob, bos'n, mariner, skua, boson bodies: (n) people, public body: (n) cadaver, corpse, organization, cluster, set, carcass, figure, consistency, aggregate, association; (adj, n) mass. ANTONYMS: (n) handful, mind, minority, soul, few bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious, manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless, spirited, heroic, daring, courageous, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) timid, modest, afraid, meek, shy, light, courteous, discreet, faint, fearful, abashed book: (v) order, reserve, inscribe, apply, write; (n) account book, pamphlet, journal, volume; (n, v) list, record. ANTONYMS: (v) free, exonerate

128 boon: (n) blessing, benefit, mercy, concession, good, gratuity; (n, v) benefaction, gift, grant; (adj) jocund, hilarious. ANTONYMS: (n) disadvantage, privation, disaster, minus bootless: (adj) futile, useless, vain, idle, inefficacious, inutile, unavailing, sleeveless, abortive, ineffective, feckless boots: (n) Bootes, bell boy, bootblack, counterjumper, boy, shoeblack, footwear bore: (v) dig, tire, pierce, tap, annoy, perforate; (n, v) bother, plague; (n) auger, well, gimlet. ANTONYMS: (v) fascinate, excite, hypnotize, engage, entertain, stimulate; (n) charmer, exciter, excitement, pleasure born: (adj) native, natural, congenital, inbred, inborn, innate, inherent, untutored; (v) be born, to be born, arise. ANTONYMS: (adj) learned, unborn, acquired, trained borne: (adj) weak, wanting, spoony, soft, sappy, shallow, little, limited bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; (v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority bots: (n) bot, Botts bottom: (n) basis, backside, bed, behind, foot, footing, back, foundation, posterior, floor; (n, v) ground. ANTONYMS: (n) pinnacle, summit, peak, roof, apex, ceiling, middle; (adj) highest bought: (n) crook, hook bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border, bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n) boundary, barrier, compass. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, amble, crawl, limp, permit; (adj) permitted, released, unbound, allowed, unlikely boundless: (adj) limitless, endless, unlimited, infinite, bottomless, incalculable, immense, immeasurable, interminable, unbounded, vast. ANTONYMS: (adj) limited, restricted, confined, finite, incomplete, negligible, small bounteous: (adj) bountiful, liberal, ample, copious, plentiful, bighearted, generous, munificent, handsome, benevolent, affluent. ANTONYM: (adj) scarce bounty: (adj, n) largesse; (n) abundance, bounteousness, premium, blessing, prize,

Pericles munificence, beneficence, generosity; (v) benefaction; (n, v) gift. ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, fine, insufficiency, penalty, meanness bourn: (n) bounds, border, Bourne, limit, confine, bound, term, borne, barrier, but, curbstone bowed: (adj) arched, curved, inclined, crooked, arciform, arching, arced, bandy, arcuate, twisted, bended. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, concave, plucked boxes: (n) auditory, pit, parquet, gallery, box, case, front of the house, bleachers, stalls brace: (n, v) prop, strengthen, support, invigorate; (n) strut, pair, duo, bitstock, tie; (v) clamp, bolster. ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, sedate, loosen, flex braid: (adj) knit, string, tie; (n, v) twine; (adj, v) embroider, lace; (v) plat; (n) tress, pigtail, ribbon, band branch: (n, v) fork; (n) wing, jump, affiliate, ramus, member, stem, limb, agency, stick, subdivision. ANTONYMS: (n) composite, trunk; (v) converge, merge bread: (n) livelihood, bun, maintenance, cash, currency, loot, dough, pelf, food, sustenance, kale breadth: (n) width, spread, amplitude, wideness, size, length, latitude, extent, area, broadness, stretch. ANTONYMS: (n) length, longitude, emptiness, thinness break: (n, v) crack, fracture, breach, burst, rupture, stop, pause; (n) interruption, respite, suspension; (v) infringe. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, honor, lose, make, observe, resume, stay, strengthen; (n, v) mend; (n) continuation, misfortune breakfast: (n) repast, banquet, dejeuner, mealtime, feast, meal; (v) sup, take tea, eat, have a meal, dine breast: (n) boob, udder, tit, titty, chest, knocker, mammilla, bust, pap, heart; (n, v) front breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration, puff, soul, aspiration, respite, airflow; (v) breathe, respire; (adj, n) whisper breathing: (adj) animate, live, living, respiratory, alive, above ground; (v) breathe, respire; (n) respiration, instant, moment. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, breathless, dead breed: (n) variety, race, kind, ancestry, sort, order, species; (v) engender, multiply, beget, bear.

ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, eradicate, ignore, kill, neglect, quell bride: (n) fiance, Bridget, Brigid, saint Brigid, saint Bridget, honeymooner, prioress, newlywed, participant, wife, bridegroom. ANTONYMS: (n) bridegroom, groom briefly: (adv) concisely, pithily, momentarily, curtly, tersely, succinctly, fleetingly, transitorily, transiently; (adj, adv) summarily, quickly. ANTONYMS: (adv) permanently, endlessly, slowly, thoroughly, verbosely briefness: (n) shortness, duration, length, brief, fleeting, short in time duration, terseness, succinctness, conciseness, concision, transience bright: (adj) alive, vivid, intelligent, apt, shining, brilliant, lustrous, luminous, light, beaming, shiny. ANTONYMS: (adj) cloudy, stupid, gloomy, dim, unintelligent, dreary, dark, overcast, shadowy, thick, leaden brim: (n) rim, periphery, verge, edge, lip, hem, rand, margin, perimeter, brink, limit brine: (n) deep, sea, ocean, salt water, saltwater, seawater, non freeze liquid, watery waste, solution; (adj, v) pickle; (v) souse bring: (v) convey, get, take, bear, carry, put, conduct, return, reduce, set, bring in. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, free, leave, lose, remove, avoid bringing: (n) delivery, consignment, serving, service, passage, post broken: (adj) torn, tame, damaged, intermittent, uneven, imperfect, rugged, rough, out of order; (adj, v) busted, ruined. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbroken, intact, wild, whole, working, uplifted, uninterrupted, triumphant, running, indomitable, incessant brothel: (n) bagnio, bordello, house of ill repute, sporting house, house of prostitution, hothouse, cathouse, whorehouse, bawdy house, building, edifice brow: (n) peak, brink, brows, height, summit, forehead, eyebrow, edge, crown, brim, border. ANTONYM: (n) trough building: (n) architecture, establishment, construction, fabrication, house, fabric, dwelling, assembly, structure, erection; (n, v) pile buildings: (n) edifice, construction, lane, passage, place, property, quad,

William Shakespeare quadrangle, parade, rents, road built: (v) establish, create; (adj) made, shapely, robust, curvaceous, reinforced, improved, heavy, buxom, assembled burden: (n, v) bother, weight, pack, burthen, trouble, clog, strain; (n) anxiety, bale, responsibility; (v) afflict. ANTONYMS: (v) relieve, lighten, free, disburden, alleviate, relax; (n, v) help; (n) tranquility, relaxation, peace, pleasure burial: (v) bury, funebrial; (n) sepulture, entombment, burying, inhumation, funeral, concealment, sepulcher, hiding, committal buried: (adj) hidden, covert, interred, underground, inhumed, profound, covered, ulterior; (v) perdu, imbed, embed. ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, overt burning: (adj) blazing, ablaze, boiling, afire, flaming, hot; (n) combustion, firing; (adj, n) passionate, zealous, glowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, trivial, cool, out, painless, quenched, soothing, unimportant, apathetic, insignificant, unconcerned burst: (adj, n, v) crack; (adj, v) split, blow up, explode, splinter, detonate; (n, v) rupture, blast; (adj, n) flash; (v) break out, belch. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, join, connect, fasten, trickle buxom: (adj) bosomy, chubby, bonny, plump, sonsy, voluptuous, curvaceous, shapely, full, crummy, fat. ANTONYMS: (adj) skinny, bony calendar: (n) agenda, the calendar, schedule, diary, journal, timetable, program, Calendar year, system, organization; (n, v) list call: (n, v) appeal, shout, bellow, name, yell, howl, request, appoint; (v) bid, summon; (n) call option. ANTONYMS: (v) whisper, mutter, cancel, listen, stop, suppose, murmur; (n) dismissal, give, grant, silence called: (adj) named, titled, chosen, known as; (v) nempt, ycleped calling: (n) business, occupation, call, avocation, job, trade, career, employment, walk, pursuit; (n, v) profession. ANTONYMS: (n) entertainment, hobby calls: (n) securities, puts, bonds, preferred stock, common stock cambric: (n) calico, cambric-muslin, cashmere, fabric, textile, material, cloth, linen came: (v) arrive, come

cancel: (adj, v) abrogate, abolish; (v) revoke, expunge, invalidate, erase, remit, call off, eliminate, efface, repeal. ANTONYMS: (v) permit, imbalance, prolong, tip, uphold, maintain, authenticate, establish, adopt, enact, allow caper: (n, v) skip, bound, frolic, hop, romp, leap, play, gambol; (n) prank, joke, antic. ANTONYM: (v) restrain capital: (adj, n) principal, primary, main; (n) city, stock, funds, money, wealth, means; (adj) great, magnificent. ANTONYMS: (adj) extra, worst, unimportant, poor, nonessential, minor, inferior; (n) minuscule, liabilities, poverty care: (adj, n, v) anxiety; (n, v) attention, charge, worry; (n) caution, bother, concern, apprehension, aid, custody; (v) attend. ANTONYMS: (n) carelessness, recklessness, thoughtlessness, rashness, negligence, vagueness, unconcern; (n, v) disregard, dislike; (v) loathe, abhor careful: (adj, v) attentive, anxious; (adj) thrifty, thoughtful, frugal, mindful, prudent, deliberate, alert, economical, guarded. ANTONYMS: (adj) reckless, slapdash, neglectful, wasteful, unconcerned, tactless, stupid, spendthrift, rash, negligent, inaccurate careless: (adj) forgetful, inattentive, insouciant, haphazard, cursory, reckless, lax, unwary, sloppy; (adj, adv) thoughtless; (adj, v) heedless. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, prudent, meticulous, thoughtful, diligent, attentive, thorough, wary, guarded, methodical, strict carpet: (v) cover, drape, rebuke, encase, row, chew out; (n) rug, carpeting, tapis, runner, covering carry: (v) convey, bring, take, conduct, acquit, behave, accept, transport, comport, hold, pack. ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, lose, censor, fail, hold, conceal carrying: (n) transport, conveyance, carriage, transportation, haulage, hauling, shipping; (adj) bearing, gerent; (v) convey, bring cased: (adj) bound, sheathed, incased cases: (n) brass tacks, baggage, luggage, caseload, suitcases casket: (n) box, coffin, chest, sarcophagus, coffer, caddy, bier, gasket, reliquary, desk; (v) enclose cast: (n, v) throw, stamp, form, fling, shape, figure; (v) shed, pitch, chuck;

129 (n) casting, appearance. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, receive, subtract, reject, take, gather, catch, retain, keep catch: (n, v) capture, hook, haul, hitch, trick, grab, snatch; (v) get, apprehend, intercept; (n) pawl. ANTONYMS: (n, v) release; (v) misunderstand, unhitch, mistake, Miss, misinterpret, free, give, lose; (n) advantage, boon cates: (v) dainty, delicacy, viands; (n) acates caught: (adj) fixed, guilty, accomplished, wedged, trapped, interested, exposed, defenseless, culpable; (v) seize, get. ANTONYM: (adj) loose cause: (n) case, action, account; (n, v) occasion, allow; (v) breed, do, induce, beget, motivate, provoke. ANTONYMS: (n) effect, result, outcome; (v) foil, deter, forestall, prevent, stop, halt, quell, retard cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit, terminate, break, break off, close, conclude, discontinue, abstain. ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start, commence, persist, stay celebrate: (v) extol, keep, praise, acclaim, laud, honor, fete, solemnize, applaud, honour, triumph. ANTONYMS: (v) overlook, mourn, forget, disregard, condemn certain: (adj) definite, sure, assured, absolute, reliable, indisputable, dependable, unquestionable, undeniable, unavoidable, unequivocal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsure, doubtful, questionable, hesitant, debatable, erratic, faulty, indistinct, vague, doubting, undecided certainly: (adv) assuredly, definitely, positively, clearly, necessarily, undoubtedly, actually, securely, confidently, absolutely; (adj, adv) really. ANTONYMS: (adv) doubtfully, possibly, equivocally, perhaps chamber: (n) hall, bedchamber, cavity, cell, council, compartment, assembly, apartment, ventricle, dormitory, cubicle champion: (n) partisan, backer, hero, fighter, champ, warrior, victor, defender; (adj, n) ace; (n, v) support; (v) defend. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, counter; (n) loser, detractor, attacker, opponent; (adj) worst, poorest, lousy

130 chance: (n, v) hazard, adventure, risk, venture, bet; (n) fortune, probability, opportunity; (adj) accidental; (adj, n) contingency; (v) befall. ANTONYMS: (adj) intentional, deliberate, designed, arranged, planned, foreseeable; (n, v) plan; (n) predictability, misfortune, certainty; (v) protect change: (n, v) shift, barter, twist, cash; (v) alter, alternate, adapt, convert; (n) alteration, modification, variation. ANTONYMS: (v) leave, maintain, idle, hold, establish, standardize; (n) stability, bills, constancy, preservation, uniformity changed: (adj) transformed, varied, switched, change, transform, converted, distorted, affected, changeling, disguised, inverse. ANTONYM: (adj) unchanged character: (n) type, part, note, role, brand, spirit, disposition; (adj, n) nature, kind, eccentric, constitution. ANTONYMS: (n) deceit, dishonor, corruption, body characters: (n) letters, typescript, typeset, symbols, script, lettering, inscription, handwriting, font, cast, writing charge: (n, v) blame, care, burden, commission, command, attack, bill, load, tax; (n) accusation; (v) bid. ANTONYMS: (v) request, discharge, plead, beg, compensate, aid, credit, calm; (n, v) retreat, absolve, unload charity: (n) dole, favor, aid, liberality, generosity, kindness, alms, mercy, virtue; (v) almsgiving; (adj, n) brotherly love. ANTONYMS: (n) intolerance, meanness, unkindness, cruelty, malice, stinginess, cheapness, nastiness, inhumanity chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, severe, continent, spotless, decent. ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, dirty, defiled, impure, tainted chastity: (n) honor, purity, abstinence, virtue, innocence, chasteness, continence, modesty, cleanliness, austerity; (adj) honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) nymphomania, lewdness, adultery cheap: (adj) tacky, low, stingy, base, flashy, worthless, sleazy, shabby, niggardly, mean, economical. ANTONYMS: (adj) expensive, costly, tasteful, generous, luxurious, quality, noble, inflated, precious, dear, steep

Pericles cheapen: (v) degrade, belittle, diminish, debase, depreciate, chaffer, depress, disparage, lessen, exacerbate, exasperate. ANTONYMS: (v) enhance, increase, upgrade, recognize cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet cheerful: (adj, v) buoyant; (adj) breezy, merry, optimistic, pleasant, glad, blithe, carefree, bright, lively, happy. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressed, gloomy, sad, depressing, grim, hopeless, miserable, morose, somber, dejected, unwelcoming chest: (n) bosom, ark, bust, box, chest of drawers, case, hutch, bureau, caisson, casket, dresser chiding: (n) scolding, rebuke, blame, reprehension, rap, censure, upbraiding, wigging, brawl, admonition; (adv) scoldingly chief: (adj, n) principal, head, cardinal, capital, arch, essential, paramount; (n) administrator, boss, executive, leader. ANTONYMS: (adj) associate, secondary, junior, smallest, inessential, unimportant, least, trivial; (n) subordinate, underling, inferior child: (n) baby, babe, bairn, infant, kid, toddler, tot, girl, brat, juvenile, minor. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, parent childbed: (n) confinement, childbirth, labor, labour, birth, accouchement, parturition, parturiency, travail, birthing children: (n) child, offspring, descendant, family, seed, boy, babies, descendants, birth, relatives, people choice: (n) vote, alternative, selection, option, preference, pick, pleasure, volition; (adj, n) favorite, election; (adj) excellent. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, fair, poor, worst, ordinary, inappropriate; (n) coercion, dearth, restriction, dislike choleric: (adj) angry, irascible, passionate, peppery, fiery, cantankerous, quick-tempered, quarrelsome, cross, snappish, hotheaded chorus: (n, v) choir; (v) chant; (n) ensemble, coir, refrain, chorale, acclamation, Greek chorus; (adv) descant, glee, madrigal. ANTONYMS: (n) disagreement, discord chosen: (adj, n) elect; (adj) preferred, select, favored, named; (adj, v)

designate, desired, designated; (n) deary, ducky, dearie. ANTONYMS: (adj) ignored, involuntary church: (n) cathedral, abbey, chapel, meetinghouse, denomination, minster, place of worship, kirk, Fane, Christian church, Christianity city: (adj) municipal, urban, civic, public; (n) borough, the City, burgh, village, metropolis, municipality, state. ANTONYMS: (adj) suburban, country, private clasp: (n, v) embrace, hug, grip, grasp, squeeze, clutch, buckle, brooch; (adj, n, v) pin; (v) stick, cling. ANTONYMS: (v) unbuckle, loose, unclasp, relax, detach clasping: (adj) tendril clear: (adj) clean, certain, distinct; (adj, v) acquit, absolute, free, net, absolve, empty; (adj, n) open; (v) exculpate. ANTONYMS: (adj) opaque, cloudy, incomprehensible, uncertain, dark, hazy, vague, fuzzy, obscure, confused, puzzling cleared: (adj) absolved, clean, empty, exculpated, bleak, innocent, exempt, vindicated, exonerated, guiltless, let off. ANTONYMS: (adj) full, uncleared, guilty clients: (n) clientele, customers, practice, patrons clip: (n, v) clasp, snip, hit, pin; (v) nip, trim, shear, shave, crop, prune; (n) buckle. ANTONYMS: (v) detach, elongate, extend, increase, unclip, undo, unfasten close: (n, v) end, stop, finish; (adj, adv, prep) nearby; (adj, adv) adjacent, tight; (adj, v) compact, approximate; (adj) accurate; (adv, prep) by; (n) conclusion. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) open; (n, v) start; (adj) distant, airy, loose, fresh, far, inaccurate, unfamiliar; (v) begin, unlock cloth: (n) drapery, fabric, clothes, clothing, rag, stuff, linen, tapestry, silk, flannel; (v) napkin clothed: (adj) dressed, wrapped, cloaked, robed, covered, attired, vested, absorbed, decent; (v) accustomed, arrayed. ANTONYM: (adj) unclothed clothes: (n) apparel, clothing, dress, garb, wardrobe, vestment, garment, cloth, thing, gown, wear cloud: (n, v) mist, blur; (v) becloud, obscure, eclipse, blacken, taint, befog, overshadow; (adj, n) swarm; (n) haze. ANTONYMS: (v) clear, refine, accentuate, illuminate,

William Shakespeare explain, clarify, unveil cloudy: (adj) dull, gloomy, nebulous, murky, dark, turbid, foggy, muddy, misty, sunless, vaporous. ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, bright, sunny, cloudless coast: (n) shore, bank, seaside, beach, seashore, waterside, brink; (n, v) slide, glide; (adj) coastal; (v) drift. ANTONYMS: (v) bump, lurch, struggle; (n) inland, Midlands coat: (v) cloak, blanket; (n, v) sheath, plaster; (n) coating, fur, film, crust, jacket, layer, bark. ANTONYMS: (v) reveal, expose coffer: (n) box, chest, case, caisson, casket, trunk, safe, strongbox, treasury, crate, coffers coffin: (n) casket, sarcophagus, chest, cask, hearse, urn, carriage, automobile, catafalque; (v) to drive a nail in one's coffin, bury cold: (n) chilliness, chill; (adj) chilly, frigid, distant, indifferent, aloof, callous, icy, apathetic, impassive. ANTONYMS: (adj) warm, friendly, hot, prepared, burning, affectionate, loving, soporific, fervid; (n) heat, warmth colour: (n) coloration, coloring, colors, semblance, vividness, pretext, pretence, colouring, guise; (v) redden, discolor. ANTONYMS: (n) colorlessness; (v) discolor comfort: (n, v) ease, allay, support, aid, alleviate; (n) consolation, relief, amenity, assistance; (adj, n, v) assuage; (v) cheer. ANTONYMS: (n) discomfort, aggravation, agony; (v) alarm, annoy, frighten, afflict, aggravate, bother, burden, disappoint comfortable: (adj, v) easy, snug; (adj) pleased, pleasing, prosperous, agreeable, pleasurable, congenial, rich, enjoyable, homely. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, tense, formal, unpleasant, unhappy, unaccustomed, intimidating, difficult, anxious, broke, destitute coming: (n) advent, approach, appearance, arrival, return; (adj, n) approaching; (adj) forthcoming, imminent, future, impending; (adj, v) instant. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, exit, leaving, departing; (adj) distant, retreating, past command: (n, v) order, charge, call, control, decree; (n) instruction, bidding, direction, behest; (v) direct, commission. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, follow, contradict, countermand,

revoke, recall, oppose; (n) beg, plead, plea commend: (v) approve, exalt, acclaim, praise, applaud, recommend, endorse, entrust, extol, compliment, cite. ANTONYMS: (v) rebuke, criticize, censure, reproach, keep, chastise, reprimand, deny, disparage, refuse, smear commended: (adj) highly praised commission: (n) mission, job, delegation, mandate, appointment, work; (n, v) warrant, assign; (v) accredit, designate, entrust. ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, retract; (n) salary commit: (v) consign, assign, charge, confide, dedicate, apply, entrust, submit, intrust, leave, give. ANTONYMS: (v) stop, desist, divest, end, idle, withhold, wait, cease, keep, refuse commodity: (n) article, product, object, thing, good, goods, stuff, wares, ware, basic, item common: (adj) coarse, mutual, vulgar, mean, mediocre, ignoble, plebeian, base; (adj, n) cheap, habitual; (adj, n, v) usual. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncommon, rare, unusual, characteristic, specific, unique, extraordinary, exclusive, aristocratic, infrequent, refined companion: (adj, n) associate; (n) colleague, buddy, mate, peer, chum, partner, fellow, comrade, assistant, brother. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, adversary compare: (adj, v) liken; (v) confront, equate, to compare, associate, contrast, correlate, equalize, resemble, equal; (n, v) comparison. ANTONYMS: (v) imbalance, contrast compass: (n) scope, range, room, extent, area, circumference, reach; (n, v) round, grasp, circle; (v) get. ANTONYM: (v) lose complexion: (n, v) tint; (n) cast, character, appearance, look, hue, aspect, flush, glow, dye, fashion conceal: (v) hide, disguise, bury, screen, cloak, smother, shield, suppress, mask, obscure; (n, v) veil. ANTONYMS: (v) reveal, show, expose, divulge, clarify, uncover, disclose, tell, admit, spotlight, flaunt conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfesteem, pride, assumption, egotism, fancy, haughtiness, conception, caprice, quip. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, timidity, selflessness,

131 humbleness, reserve conception: (n) concept, idea, view, thought, creation, mind, design, imagination, impression, understanding, fancy. ANTONYMS: (n) termination, finish, ending, concrete, abortion, ignorance, destruction conclusion: (n) end, close, result, termination, sequel, completion, cessation, dissolution, finish, finale; (n, v) closing. ANTONYMS: (n) beginning, opening, preface, inauguration, foreword, launch, commencement, head conditions: (n) climate, environment, situation, circumstances, setting, surroundings, terms, provisions, ambiance, background, bound confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor confusion: (n) commotion, chaos, disarray, bedlam, pandemonium, disorder, disturbance, distraction, clutter, tumult, agitation. ANTONYMS: (n) clarity, understanding, tidiness, systematization, enlightenment, peace, organization, lucidity, neatness, space, calm conquest: (n) defeat, triumph, conquering, achievement, reduction, coup, rout, overthrow, subjection, mastery, success. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, loss, victory conscience: (n) moral sense, Conscience money, sense of right and wrong, scruple, intention, tender conscience, small voice, principles, morals, morality, inward monitor. ANTONYM: (n) indifference consent: (adj, n, v) accord; (n, v) acquiescence, agreement; (v) concur, approve, agree, acquiesce, accept; (n) consensus, approval; (adj, v) allow. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, reject, protest, object, differ, oppose; (n, v) veto; (n) refusal, opposition, dissent, disagreement constant: (adj) ceaseless, perpetual, continual, faithful, changeless, steadfast, eternal, uninterrupted, continuous; (adj, n) steady, invariable. ANTONYMS: (adj) irregular, intermittent, changeable, variable, inconstant, erratic, episodic, fickle, temporary, disloyal,

132 inconsistent constraint: (n) compulsion, force, restraint, confinement, obligation, restriction, duress, enforcement, pressure, limitation; (adj, n) reserve. ANTONYMS: (n) freedom, boldness, liberation, option, openness, persuasion contends: (v) contend content: (n) meaning, matter, capacity, contents, subject; (n, v) contentment; (v) appease, please, satisfy, suffice; (adj) happy. ANTONYMS: (n, v) discontent; (adj) tormented, unhappy, dissatisfied, rebellious, discontented, troubled; (adj, v) upset; (n) unhappiness, sadness; (v) trouble continual: (adj, adv) constant; (adj) ceaseless, incessant, endless, continuous, frequent, everlasting, uninterrupted, perpetual, unrelenting, perennial. ANTONYMS: (adj) sporadic, temporary, occasional, finite, inconstant, infrequent, ending, ceasing, halting, rare, acute contrary: (adj, n) contradictory, reverse; (adj) adverse, conflicting, unfavorable, perverse, cross, disobedient, alien, different, obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj) similar, harmonious, helpful, obliging, compatible, complaisant, concordant, parallel, agreeable, cooperative, favorable conversant: (adj) proficient, knowing, informed, familiar, versed, learned, cognizant, conscious, erudite, experienced, skilled. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, oblivious, inexperienced convey: (v) communicate, channel, bring, conduct, transfer, fetch, express, transmit, bear, transport, take. ANTONYMS: (v) keep, maintain, withhold, retain, refrain, hold, absorb, receive cool: (adj, v) chill, assuage, soothe; (adj) chilly, cold, collected, composed, fine, aloof; (v) quench; (n) poise. ANTONYMS: (v) heat; (adj) hot, agitated, excited, friendly, feverish, enthusiastic, tepid, temperate, bad, upset cope: (v) contend, make do, combat, struggle, surmount, do, deal, get by, get along, grapple; (n) coping. ANTONYMS: (v) mismanage, crumble corn: (n) clavus, cereals, Zea Mays, callus, wheat, Indian corn, callosity,

Pericles grain; (v) feed, keep; (adj, n) commonplace cornet: (n) bugle, trumpet, bugle-cap, trombone, ophicleide, ensign, cornopean, centurion, car horn, officer, brigadier correct: (adj, v) right; (adj, n) accurate; (v) amend, chastise, adjust, castigate, chasten, better; (adj) appropriate, becoming, proper. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) wrong; (adj) incorrect, faulty, mistaken, false, inappropriate, improper, inaccurate; (v) spoil, coddle, baby corrupted: (adj) tainted, rotten, spoiled, degraded, adulterated, depraved, distorted, decayed, impaired, debased; (n) corrupter. ANTONYM: (adj) pure corse: (n) cadaver, dry bones, skeleton, Corsica, carcass, bones couch: (n) bed, sofa, settee, divan; (adj, v) lie; (v) express, put, frame, lower, repose; (adj) recline council: (n) assembly, congress, convocation, convention, consultation, synod, meeting, legislature, diet, committee, chamber counsellor: (n) counselor, advocate, adviser, councillor, advisor, mentor, pleader, attorney, lawyer, consultant, solicitor countervail: (v) counteract, compensate, neutralize, cancel, balance, offset, oppose, equilibrize, redeem, make up, recoup countless: (adj) innumerable, multitudinous, many, endless, myriad, measureless, uncounted, legion, untold, infinite, incalculable. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, limited, numbered, counted, countable, small country: (n) nation, home, land, place, area, territory, commonwealth, soil, kingdom, realm; (adj) rustic. ANTONYMS: (adj) urban, metropolitan; (adj, n) city; (n) metropolis courage: (n) audacity, fortitude, boldness, nerve, spirit, backbone, valor, heroism, gallantry, mettle, chivalry. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, faintheartedness, weakness, wimpiness, yellowness course: (n, v) stream, flow; (n) bearing, route, career, track, path, road, channel; (adj, n) current; (v) chase. ANTONYM: (v) trickle courser: (n) shorebird, steed, hunter, thoroughbred, palfrey, nag,

Galloway, blood horse, beast of burden, beast; (adj) eagle courses: (n) menses, catamenia court: (n) forum, bar, close, field, tribunal, passage, judicatory, judge; (v) romance, attract; (n, v) invite. ANTONYMS: (v) shun, reject, ignore, spurn, disregard, discourage courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable, attentive, gracious, decorous, chivalrous, bland, thoughtful, urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite, boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff, improper, vulgar, unhelpful, neglectful, graceless courtesy: (adj, n) civility, complaisance; (n) propriety, chivalry, comity, politeness, gallantry, decency, attention, breeding, etiquette. ANTONYMS: (n) rudeness, discourtesy, unkindness, informality, impoliteness, disservice, brusqueness, incivility, vulgarity, crudeness, neglect cover: (n, v) coat, top, conceal, screen, cloak, veil, shield, spread; (v) bury; (n) blanket, binding. ANTONYMS: (v) reveal, expose, uncover, exclude, ignore, abandon, strip, free, forget, omit; (n) exposure covering: (n) cover, coating, blanket, coat, casing, wrapper, case, concealment, awning; (adj, n, v) clothing; (n, v) apparel. ANTONYMS: (prep) exactly, beneath coward: (n) cur, pantywaist, sneak, dastard, milksop, weakling, milquetoast; (adj) gutless, chickenhearted, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted. ANTONYMS: (n) daredevil, stalwart; (adj) brave crack: (n, v) chink, fracture, split, fissure, crevice, burst, snap, breach, clap, check; (n) cleft. ANTONYMS: (n, v) mend; (v) set, misunderstand, misinterpret, fix, compose; (adj) mediocre, lowly, inferior, deficient crave: (v) covet, ask, want, beseech, implore, wish, long, entreat, desire, fancy, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, spurn, loathe, hate, detest, grant creature: (n) being, brute, animal, tool, individual, person, body, entity, human, puppet, somebody credit: (n) credence, recognition, belief, commendation, appreciation, advance, fame; (v) accredit; (n, v) reputation; (adj, n) worth, merit.

William Shakespeare ANTONYMS: (n, v) discredit; (n) cash, blame, fault, disrepute, disgrace, withdrawal; (v) disbelieve, question, mistrust, distrust crew: (n) cluster, gang, bunch, party, band, faction, crowd, assemblage, team, group, set crickets: (n) order Orthoptera, Gryllidae, family Gryllidae cross: (adj) crabby, angry, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous; (v) intersect, cover, thwart, baffle; (adj, v) traverse; (n) crisscross. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, cheerful, happy; (v) uncross, assist, separate, remain, help, stay, unmix, aid crown: (n, v) top, cover; (v) cap, complete; (n) apex, pinnacle, crest, summit, peak, kingdom, acme. ANTONYMS: (n) base, bottom; (v) dishonor, dethrone, begin, commence, start, depose cruel: (adj, v) hard, harsh, sharp, severe; (adj) barbarous, unkind, brutal, bloody, bitter, savage, atrocious. ANTONYMS: (adj) merciful, gentle, sympathetic, humane, liberal, compassionate, charitable, friendly, caring, considerate, libertarian cunning: (adj) crafty, canny, adroit, wily, sly, shrewd, tricky, artful; (n) craftiness, craft, cleverness. ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, honest, stupid, unimaginative, gullible, ingenuous, straightforward, candid, sincere; (n) frankness, straightforwardness curb: (n, v) control, limit, bridle; (v) restrict, suppress, contain, conquer, restrain, confine; (adv, v) moderate; (n) kerb. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, push, help, foster, spur, assist, aid, unbridle, facilitate; (n) incentive, encouragement curious: (adj) odd, unusual, abnormal, strange, peculiar, interested, quizzical, quaint, queer, inquiring, inquisitive. ANTONYMS: (adj) incurious, ordinary, apathetic, uninterested, unconcerned, typical, indifferent, everyday, disinterested, conventional, common curse: (n, v) blight, plague; (n) anathema, blasphemy, malediction, denunciation; (adj, v) beshrew; (v) swear, ban, damn, vituperate. ANTONYMS: (n) blessing, benediction, making; (v) communicate cursed: (adj) damned, doomed, execrable, cussed, wretched,

unlucky, accursed, blamed, blasted, confounded; (v) accurst. ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, honorable, nice, sweet, kine curtain: (n, v) cover; (n) barrier, drapery, blind, screen, mantle, mask, shade, pall, shroud; (v) hide custom: (n) habit, convention, usage, practice, consuetude, fashion, method, mores; (n, v) use, accustom; (adj) bespoke. ANTONYMS: (n) fad, innovation, phenomenon, rage, rarity customers: (n) trade damned: (adj) accursed, doomed, blasted, condemned, damn, cussed, wretched, infernal, hateful, goddamned; (adv) damnably. ANTONYM: (adj) saved dancing: (n) choreography, Terpsichore, saltation, break dancing, ceremonial dance, galloping, hoofing, Pavan; (adj) morrice; (adv) adance; (v) saltant danger: (n) risk, peril, hazard, chance, jeopardy, threat, trouble, precariousness, slipperiness, disaster, insecurity. ANTONYMS: (n) security, ease, privilege dangerous: (adj, n) critical; (adj) severe, serious, grave, adventurous, unhealthy, precarious, hazardous, perilous, threatening, chancy. ANTONYMS: (adj) stable, secure, protected, unhazardous, slight, weak, harmless, friendly, favorable, calm, pleasant dare: (n, v) venture; (v) defy, brave, hazard, confront, risk, resist, make bold; (n) adventure, daring, defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) avoid, flee, pass, refrain, retreat, obey darken: (v) blur, blind, confuse, dim, shade, overcast, fog, overshadow; (adj, v) obscure; (n, v) conceal, shadow. ANTONYMS: (v) illuminate, whiten, lighten, clarify, disclose darkness: (n) dark, shade, shadow, blindness, gloom, blackness, duskiness, murk, cloud, blackout, dimness. ANTONYMS: (n) brightness, lightness, glow, comprehension, knowledge, day, clearness dart: (n, v) dash, run, flit; (v) bound, flash, shoot, rush, race, gallop; (adj, n) arrow, rocket. ANTONYMS: (v) plod, trudge, slog, linger, dawdle, dally, delay, amble; (n) tonic date: (n) appointment, engagement, period, meeting, epoch, assignation,

133 dating, day of the month; (n, v) escort; (v) register, determine daughter: (n) child, son, maiden, young woman, daughterly, lass, unmarried woman, damsel, miss, missy, virgin days: (n) period, life, time, age, existence, generation, years, being, era, living, lifetime dead: (adj) lifeless, defunct, cold, inanimate, idle, gone, fallen, numb, deceased, vapid; (adv) right. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) living; (adj) alive, animate, live, spirited, responsive, working, partial, operative; (adv) partly, partially deafening: (adj) earsplitting, thunderous, shrill, piercing, noisy, massive, roaring, enormous, gigantic, tremendous; (v) thundering. ANTONYM: (adj) tranquil deal: (v) administer, allot, conduct, truck, distribute, apportion; (n, v) buy, trade, contract; (n) agreement, arrangement. ANTONYMS: (n) purchase; (v) misdirect, receive, neglect, mishandle, mismanage, take, ignore, hold, gather, disregard dear: (adj, adv) close, near; (adj, n) darling; (adj) costly, expensive, lovely, precious, affectionate, adorable, cherished; (n) love. ANTONYMS: (adj) worthless, inexpensive, valueless, despised, modest, loathed, hateful, distant; (n) rival, foe, enemy dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; (adj) precious, intimate, sweet dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously, darlingly, sweetly, petly, expensively, belovedly, intimately, highly, heartfeltly, lovely death: (n) expiration, end, close, exit, fate, mortality, departure, cessation, decease, dissolution; (adj) quietus. ANTONYMS: (n) existence, delivery, living, nascency, being, survival, life, beginning debtor: (n) obligor, defaulter, borrower, debitor, bankrupt, deadbeat, debit, welsher, levanter, lame duck, stag decay: (adj, n, v) decline; (v) decompose, crumble, corrupt; (n, v) blight, ebb, rust, collapse; (n) decomposition, corruption, disintegration. ANTONYMS: (v) flourish, grow, thrive, strengthen, ripen, develop; (n) vigor, development

134 deck: (v) clothe, embellish, beautify, bedeck, ornament, array, attire, dress, decorate, grace; (n, v) floor. ANTONYMS: (v) strip, unclothe deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, doing, document, title, fact. ANTONYM: (n) failure deep: (adj) thick, profound, strong, rich, broad, sound, absorbed, wide, abstruse, dark; (adj, v) intense. ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial, high, weak, soft, light, open, frivolous, lightweight, narrow, straightforward, simple defend: (n, v) guard, shield, advocate; (v) justify, protect, assert, support, maintain, champion, apologize, shelter. ANTONYMS: (v) prosecute, abandon, endanger, surrender, renounce, oppose, forsake, assault, contradict, destroy, expose defiled: (adj) impure, polluted, dirty, maculate, debauched, contaminated, corrupt, violated, tainted, abusive, adulterate. ANTONYMS: (adj) hallowed, purified, sanctified, cleansed, untarnished defiling: (adj) impious, infectious; (n) inquination defy: (n, v) dare; (v) brave, resist, ignore, confront, revolt, oppose, withstand, disobey, contradict; (n) defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, acquiesce, surrender, yield, comply, accept dejected: (adj) sad, depressed, low, downhearted, gloomy, down, unhappy, spiritless, sorrowful, miserable, melancholy. ANTONYMS: (adj) elated, happy, euphoric, joyous, encouraged, positive, enthusiastic, hopeful delicate: (adj) accurate, tender, dainty, refined, breakable, fragile, beautiful, brittle, soft, nice, frail. ANTONYMS: (adj) inelegant, robust, heavy, sturdy, tough, careless, inaccurate, rough, well, substantial, unscrupulous delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement, rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish, amuse, please, captivate, transport, enrapture. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, dismay, dissatisfaction, sadness, nuisance, discontent; (v) depress, displease, sadden, irk; (n, v) bore delightful: (adj) delicious, delectable, charming, pleasing, grateful, blissful, amiable, adorable, lovely, nice, gorgeous. ANTONYMS: (adj)

Pericles unpleasant, unwelcome, hateful, miserable, unhappy, unappealing, horrific, horrible, disagreeable, depressing, annoying deliver: (v) consign, bear, carry, save, rescue, abandon, send, pronounce, hand over, bring; (adj, v) utter. ANTONYMS: (v) capture, confine, imprison, hold, oppress, enslave, restrain, retain, collect, withhold, shackle demand: (v) ask, require, ask for, beg; (n, v) need, request, command, appeal, requisition, sale; (n) requirement. ANTONYMS: (v) grant, offer, obviate, give, eliminate, cede, beg, present, request; (n) response, plea demanded: (adj) urgent, popular, requisitory deny: (v) controvert, rebuff, contradict, disavow, gainsay, reject, oppose, refuse, disown, abnegate, renounce. ANTONYMS: (v) affirm, claim, acknowledge, declare, maintain, agree, spoil, accept, accede, allow, argue depart: (v) go, deviate, decease, diverge, start, stray, wander, leave, die, vary, part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, arrive, enter, come, abide, conform, continue, remain, appear, converge, return depend: (adj, v) hang; (v) dangle, count, rely, stay, reckon, confide, suspend, calculate, attend, pivot. ANTONYM: (v) distrust derivation: (n) ancestry, origin, birth, extraction, source, cause, lineage, derivative, foundation, descent, etymology. ANTONYMS: (n) result, outgrowth descend: (v) settle, condescend, down, drop, deign, subside, go down, dismount, derive, get off, come down. ANTONYMS: (v) ascend, climb, float, scale, increase, level, mount descending: (v) descend; (adj) downhill, down, descendent, decreasing, dropping, falling, sloping, degressive, occasive; (adv) downward. ANTONYM: (adj) upward description: (n) account, type, picture, depiction, explanation, brand, delineation, story, recital, report; (adj, n) kind desert: (adj, n, v) waste; (v) escape, forsake, relinquish, ditch, defect, leave; (adj, v) desolate; (adj, n) worth, merit; (adj) barren.

ANTONYMS: (v) stay, support, remain, inhabit, assist, aid, help, keep; (adj) cultivated, productive, fertile deserve: (v) rate, warrant, gain, earn, to deserve, demand, justify, bear; (n, v) reward; (n) richly deserve, worth desire: (n) ambition, aspiration, craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire, seek. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) aversion, reality, revulsion, apathy; (v) spurn, abhor, answer, command, insist desired: (adj) coveted, desirable, favorite, wanted, welcome, needed, beloved, required, most wanted; (adj, v) chosen; (v) consenting desires: (n) requirements, needs desolation: (n) devastation, misery, destruction, depression, grief, wretchedness, bleakness, loneliness, waste, ruin; (adj, n) desertion. ANTONYMS: (n) ecstasy, joy, productiveness, fertileness, fecundity, cheer, fruitfulness, preservation, hopefulness, cheerfulness despise: (v) disdain, loathe, depreciate, abhor, dislike, detest, slight, hate; (n, v) contemn; (n) contempt, deride. ANTONYMS: (v) respect, love, adore, appreciate, cherish, like, praise, accept destitute: (adj) impoverished, needy, bankrupt, broke, poor, helpless, impecunious, penniless, necessitous; (adj, v) forlorn, devoid. ANTONYMS: (adj) wealthy, privileged, prosperous, solvent destroy: (v) demolish, blight, despoil, subvert, dismantle, devour, wreck, devastate; (adj, v) desolate, abolish; (n, v) murder. ANTONYMS: (v) preserve, create, make, construct, protect, repair, restore, uphold, sustain, submit, revive device: (n) emblem, apparatus, appliance, artifice, trick, figure, contraption, invention, gimmick, equipment, plan devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. ANTONYM: (n) angel diamond: (n) lozenge, infield, square, rhombus, rectangle, ball field, carbonado, baseball diamond; (adj) brilliant, jewel, bijou diamonds: (n) hearts, ice, spades, sparkler, clubs diana: (n) princess Diana, Lucretia,

William Shakespeare princess of Wales, satellite, orb of night, moon, lady Diana Frances spencer; (adj) Dian difference: (n) conflict, disagreement, controversy, contention, distinction, discrepancy, dissimilarity, divergence, quarrel, discord; (n, v) change. ANTONYMS: (n) sameness, resemblance, correspondence, agreement, concurrence, understanding, parity, normality, likeness, accord, consistency digs: (n) lodgings, residence, lodging, dig, housing, apartment, abode, dwelling, digging, accommodation, place direct: (v) aim, address, charge, dictate, head; (n, v) channel, command, control; (adj, adv) straight; (adj, v) level; (adj) immediate. ANTONYMS: (adj) roundabout, circuitous, oblique, sideways, unplanned, devious, dishonest; (v) request, follow, divert, get disaster: (n) calamity, blow, accident, adversity, casualty, cataclysm, debacle, destruction, misfortune, misadventure, fiasco. ANTONYMS: (n) success, blessing, joy, miracle, opportunity, wonder, order discern: (v) differentiate, see, comprehend, detect, distinguish, make out, perceive, find, note; (n, v) descry; (adj, v) recognize. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, neglect, disregard, observe, overlook discourse: (n, v) address, lecture, sermon, converse, harangue, chat; (n) talk, colloquy, conversation, discussion, homily discovered: (adj) revealed, disclosed, exposed, naked, detected, determined, observed, open, unconcealed, bare. ANTONYM: (adj) concealed discretion: (n) circumspection, prudence, delicacy, diplomacy, calculation, free will, discernment, discreetness, tact, confidentiality, choice. ANTONYMS: (n) tactlessness, rashness, indiscretion, foolishness, vulgarity, openness, clumsiness disease: (n, v) ailment; (n) illness, sickness, condition, complaint, affection, ill, disorder, affliction, bug; (adj, n) infirmity. ANTONYM: (n) health disfurnish: (v) disgarnish, dispurvey disguised: (adj) cloaked, concealed, masked, secret, hidden, veiled, in

disguise, incognito, blind; (adj, v) private; (n) groggy. ANTONYMS: (adj) recognizable, unmasked, uncovered, uncloaked, revealed, open, obvious dish: (n) basin, disk, plate, meal, platter, food, saucer, beauty, meat, repast; (n, v) hollow dishonour: (v) discredit, disgrace, attaint, shame, degrade, desecrate, violate, rape, outrage; (n) stigma, opprobrium dislike: (n) disapproval, disaffection, antipathy, disdain, disfavor, revulsion; (n, v) hate, disinclination, aversion, distaste; (v) detest. ANTONYMS: (n) liking, fondness, taste, attraction, enjoyment, preference, longing; (v) like, enjoy, approve, adore dismal: (adj) cheerless, dejected, dreary, gloomy, desolate, disconsolate, depressing, melancholy, black, dim, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, happy, lively, uplifting, sunny, pleasant, light, cheery, strong, soulful, wonderful dispatch: (n, v) speed, rush; (n) consignment, expedition, celerity, quickness; (v) send, accelerate, deliver, quicken, slay. ANTONYMS: (n) receiving, receipt, dawdling, delay, loitering, silence; (v) keep, start, begin, hold, retain displeasure: (n) resentment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dislike, discontent, exasperation, disfavor, annoyance, offense, pique, disapproval. ANTONYMS: (n) satisfaction, pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, delight, contentment, equanimity, approval dispose: (n, v) incline, order, influence; (v) adjust, predispose, position, place, lead, tend; (n) bias, array. ANTONYMS: (v) disturb, disqualify, displace, disorder, disincline, disarrange dissemble: (v) feign, assume, conceal, disguise, camouflage, dissimulate, act, hide, sham, pretend, mask. ANTONYMS: (v) show, demonstrate, expose, reveal distain: (adj) pollute, leaven, maculate, splash; (v) discolor, contaminate, debase distance: (n, v) remove; (n) space, way, gap, aloofness, interval, altitude, measure, mileage; (adj, n) length; (v) dissociate. ANTONYMS: (v) associate, attach, involve; (n)

135 proximity, nearness, intimacy, closeness, warmth, bias, lovingness distant: (adj) remote, aloof, chill, detached, far, reserved, cool, long, icy, removed; (adv) afar. ANTONYMS: (adj) close, neighboring, adjacent, friendly, near, nearby, warm, pending, intimate, involved, alert distemperature: (n) distemperment, distemperance distressed: (adj) worried, distraught, anxious, sad, disturbed, downcast, hurt, distracted, wretched, shocked, troubled. ANTONYMS: (adj) composed, content, euphoric, happy, comforted, glad, joyful, collected, unconcerned, unaffected disturb: (v) trouble, disorder, disconcert, distress, perturb, disquiet, distract, discompose, disrupt, upset, concern. ANTONYMS: (v) calm, please, soothe, smooth, order, reassure, sort, settle, respect, quiet, organize divinity: (n) God, theology, divineness, immortal, godship, godhead, spirit, demiurge, apologetics, demigod; (adj, n) the Deity. ANTONYM: (n) devil doing: (n) act, do, deed, making, performance, execution, perpetration, acting; (v) to make, to do; (adj) current. ANTONYM: (n) failure doit: (adj) brass farthing, bulrush, pinch of snuff, peppercorn, old son, jot, feather; (n) mite, stiver, penny, groat dole: (v) dispense; (n) mite, grant, pittance, grief, distribution, blow, care, anxiety, cark, charity done: (adj, adv) finished, ended; (adj) complete, completed, over, made, gone, accomplished, concluded, through, cooked. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsettled, disapproved, incomplete, rare, raw, rejected, uncooked, undone, unfulfilled, unsanctioned door: (n) threshold, mouth, entrance, doorway, entry, opening, access, entryway, way out, portal, hatch. ANTONYM: (n) entrance doorkeeper: (n) porter, ostiary, gatekeeper, usher, commissionaire, concierge, doorman, janitor, door guard, official, functionary doubt: (n, v) suspicion, question, query, dispute; (n) disbelief, misgiving, incertitude, apprehension, uncertainty; (adj, n) skepticism; (v) suspect.

136 ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, confidence, conclusiveness, belief, certitude, faith, approval; (v) accept, believe, consider, swallow doubting: (adj) doubtful, distrustful, disbelieving, incredulous, doubt, skeptical, suspicious, sceptical, wary, doubts, distrusting. ANTONYM: (adj) credulous doubts: (adj) doubting dove: (n) turtledove, squab, emblem, pacificist, pacifist, poultry, dover, pigeon, Holy Spirit, culver, peacenik dowry: (n) dot, inheritance, gift, alimony, dowery, portion, jointure, grant, share, endowment, heritage dozen: (adj, n) XII; (n) dozens, boxcars draw: (n, v) drag, pull, delineate, tie, design, puff; (v) depict, describe, derive, bring; (n) attraction. ANTONYMS: (v) repel, deposit, shove, shorten, thrust, cut, curtail, contract, alienate; (n) repulsion, win drawing: (n) draft, delineation, picture, plan, cartoon, depiction, draught, draw, draftsmanship, painting, image drawn: (adj) careworn, worn, drew, pinched, gaunt, taut, tired, cadaverous, thin, tense, withdraw. ANTONYMS: (adj) rested, robust, refreshed, hale, fresh, vigorous, carefree dread: (n, v) apprehension, fear, panic; (n) anxiety, awe, consternation, alarm, trepidation, dismay, foreboding, terror. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasing, welcomed, pleasant; (v) welcome, want; (n) reassurance, fearlessness, confidence, security, ease, calm dreadful: (adj) bad, awful, alarming, atrocious, fearful, terrible, abominable, appalling, direful, grisly; (adj, v) dread. ANTONYMS: (adj) wonderful, great, lovely, fantastic, marvelous, admirable, successful, nice, joyous, honorable, fair dream: (n) aspiration, ambition, reverie, desire, fantasy, figment, nightmare; (n, v) vision, sleep; (v) muse, imagine. ANTONYMS: (n) alertness, nightmare drink: (n, v) beverage, draught, swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion, intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib, swig. ANTONYMS: (v) regurgitate, sip, abstain drive: (n, v) ride, push, force, crusade, urge, thrust, campaign,

Pericles cause; (v) compel, chase, actuate. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, inertia, lethargy, walk, indifference; (v) discourage, repress, stop, prevent, inhibit, dissuade driven: (v) drive, impel, operate, propel; (adj) impelled, compulsive, motivated, involuntary, dynamic, successful; (n) drove driving: (adj) energetic, impulsive, enterprising, pushing, vigorous; (n) drive, travel, drove, direction, motoring, push. ANTONYMS: (adj) lethargic, weak, light dropping: (adj) dropped, down, fatigued, plunging, plummeting, dipping; (n) sagging, reducing, sinking, dropping of the launcher stages, dispatching drove: (adj, n) flock, swarm, shoal; (n) horde, crowd, covey, mob, throng, multitude; (adj) bevy, driven drown: (v) drench, submerge, overwhelm, choke, engulf, flood, swamp, inundate, suffocate, asphyxiate; (adj, n, v) sink. ANTONYMS: (v) float, swim, amplify, dry drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto, drunken, inebriated; (adj, n) inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac, drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, clearheaded; (n) teetotaler drunken: (adj) boozy, sottish, intoxicated, tipsy, tight, bibulous, groggy, intemperate, blotto, canned, pissed duck: (adj, n, v) plunge; (v) douse, dodge, dive, evade, circumvent, bob, shirk; (adj, n) darling; (adj, v) souse; (n) canvas. ANTONYMS: (v) confront, rise, jump, meet, accept; (n) drake dull: (adj) dreary, dense, sluggish, dismal, slack, torpid; (adj, v) blunt, stupid; (v) deaden, dampen; (adj, n) cold. ANTONYMS: (adj) lively, sharp, stimulating, exciting, lustrous, interesting, exhilarating, varied, glossy, glittery, luminous dumb: (adj) mute, speechless, dense, dim, silent, dull, slow, stupid, inarticulate, foolish, obtuse. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, communicative, intelligent, loquacious, sharp, smart, speaking, brilliant, talkative dust: (v) sprinkle, clean, spray, wipe, spread; (n) dirt, earth, relics, grit, remains, soil. ANTONYMS: (n) newness; (v) dirty

dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) wander each: (adv) apiece, either, individually; (adj) every, various, singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone, an, anybody, everyone early: (adv) betimes, soon; (adj) initial, primitive, young, prompt, first, quick; (n) beginning, morning, prior. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) late, later; (adj) delayed, slow, tardy, conclusive, latter, middle; (adv) belatedly, tardily, expectedly earned: (adj) deserved, realized, due earnest: (adj, v) devout; (adj) eager, solemn, heartfelt, diligent, studious, sincere, intense, ardent, staid; (n) guarantee. ANTONYMS: (adj) flippant, halfhearted, uncertain, insincere, unimportant, nonchalant, lethargic, apathetic, unenthusiastic, indifferent, frivolous ears: (n) antenna earth: (n) world, dust, ground, land, lair, dry land, terra firma, clay, creation, ball, country earthly: (adj, n) terrestrial; (adj) carnal, worldly, conceivable, human, geotic, secular, terrene, temporal, telluric, sublunary. ANTONYMS: (adj) spiritual, divine, ethereal, immortal, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, celestial eater: (n) glutton, devourer, diner, trencherman, dunker, affluent, viander, vegetarian, picnicker, mouth, luncher edge: (n, v) bound, verge, hem, skirt, line; (n) boundary, margin, brink, blade, extremity, limit. ANTONYMS: (n) center, disadvantage, obstacle, handicap, mainstream, end; (v) interior, dull, blunt, speed education: (n) discipline, instruction, teaching, cultivation, breeding, school, culture, nurture, knowledge, background, learning. ANTONYM: (n) illiteracy e'er: (adv) ever, forever eftsoons: (adv) eft, close upon, in the sequel, thereafter, thereupon, next, upon which, eftsoon either: (adj) whatever; (adv) too, also, neither, besides, likewise; (n) or; (det) any; (conj) other elder: (adj) older, big, adult; (n) dean, doyen, patriarch, ancient, boss, elderberry, superior, presbyter. ANTONYMS: (n) youngster, minor,

William Shakespeare child, inferior; (adj) youngest, younger, little election: (n) choice, ballot, poll, vote, volition, selection, preference, option, doom, predestination, referendum eleven: (adj, n) xi; (n) eight, squad, football team, team else: (adv) besides, yet, to boot, in addition, moreover; (pron) another; (n) or; (adj) different, other, further, additional embrace: (v) comprise, adopt, comprehend, contain, admit, espouse, include; (n, v) clasp, hug, grip, bosom. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, exclude, spurn, shun, renounce, release, loose, disbelieve empire: (adj, n) rule, authority, control; (n) kingdom, domain, realm, reign, nation, sway, command, territory endeavour: (n) attempt, effort, pains, trial, try, enterprise, striving, contribution, braving; (v) exert, strive endowments: (n) beneficence, accomplishments, advantage endurance: (adj, n) sufferance; (n) stamina, tolerance, courage, permanence, continuance, energy, fortitude, tenacity, duration, toughness. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, inconsistency, impatience, frailty, discontinuation, discontinuance, death enemy: (n) antagonist, opponent, foe, opposition, competitor, enmity, assailant, foeman, hostile, besieger; (adj, n) rival. ANTONYMS: (n) ally, friend, supporter, benefactor, defender, fan enough: (adj) ample, adequate, competent, decent; (n) adequacy, sufficiency, fill; (adv) rather, amply, adequately; (adv, n) plenty. ANTONYMS: (adj) insufficient, deficient, wanting, scant; (adv) insufficiently, inadequately; (n) insufficiency, deficiency, inadequacy, shortage ensuing: (adj) following, consequent, succeeding, later, subsequent, next, successive, resulting, consequential, ensue, posterior. ANTONYMS: (adj) antecedent, earlier, prior, preliminary enter: (v) enroll, embark, chronicle, book, record, input, arrive, come, pierce, register, penetrate. ANTONYMS: (v) depart, exit, delete, stop, refrain, erase, egress,

abstain, cancel, exclude, disembark enterprise: (n) business, company, concern, endeavor, activity, adventure, energy, effort, courage, venture, endeavour. ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, apathy, laziness, passiveness, sloth, idleness entertain: (v) amuse, delight, bear, cherish, beguile, admit, accommodate, harbor, hold, distract; (n, v) interest. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard, ignore, banish, forget, tire, displease entertainment: (n) distraction, diversion, enjoyment, show, pleasure, recreation, fun, reception, pastime; (adj, n) party; (n, v) regalement. ANTONYMS: (n) job, boredom, discomfort entice: (n, v) lure, attract, seduce, tempt; (v) cajole, bait, draw, charm, coax, allure, captivate. ANTONYMS: (v) dissuade, repulse, discourage, force entrance: (v) enchant, charm, captivate, bewitch, enrapture; (n) access, entry, admittance, threshold, arrival, door. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, exit, egress, egression, exiting, exclusion, retirement; (v) bore, repel, repulse entrap: (v) enmesh, catch, ensnare, trap, decoy, deceive, entice, inveigle, delude, frame; (n, v) tangle. ANTONYMS: (v) liberate, clear, free entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject envy: (v) begrudge, want; (n) enviousness, desire, heartburning, resentment, envies, heartburn, jealousy, hatred; (adj) jealous. ANTONYM: (n) generosity epitaph: (n) memorial, lettering, inscription, commemoration, epitaphic, legend equal: (v) compare, equalize, equate; (adj, v) agree, correspond, even, equivalent; (adj) comparable; (n) compeer; (adj, n, v) rival, parallel. ANTONYMS: (adj) different, repressive, uneven, disproportionate, inconsistent, unlike, dissimilar, discriminating, diverse; (v) differ, disproportion equivalent: (n) counterpart, match; (adj) comparable, analogous, even, alike, matching, same, identical, like; (n, v) consideration. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) dissimilar; (adj) unlike, differing, diverse, incompatible,

137 unequal erst: (adv) once, formerly, ago, time was, over, whilom, heretofore, previously, before, erewhile, at one time especially: (adv) particularly, chiefly, expressly, peculiarly, specifically, above all, exceedingly, principally, exceptionally, extraordinarily, unusually. ANTONYMS: (adv) unexceptionally, customarily, usually, commonly, frequently, generally estate: (n) land, order, demesne, rank, domain, property, acres, substance, state, asset, assets ever: (adj, adv) always, continually; (adj) constantly, still, forever; (adv) never, e'er, before, once, perpetually; (n) Evers. ANTONYM: (adv) erratically evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, ever; (adv) everlastingly, forevermore, perpetually, ever and again, for all time, until the end of time. ANTONYMS: (adv) temporarily, suddenly every: (adj) each, total, whole, any, thorough; (n) everybody, everyone, everything; (adv) apiece, either; (pron) every one evil: (adj) bad, criminal, corrupt, wicked, destructive, depraved; (adj, n) ill, detriment; (n) adversity, disaster, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) goodness, righteousness, morality; (adj) kindhearted, righteous, benign, moral, pure, upright, virtuous, sinless excellent: (adj, n) estimable, worthy, capital; (adj) superior, admirable, beautiful, distinctive, superb, great, good, splendid. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, abysmal, awful, mediocre, terrible, imperfect, inadequate, middling, shoddy, bad, used excuse: (n, v) pardon, palliate; (v) absolve, exculpate, condone, acquit, justify, forgive; (n) alibi, pretext, evasion. ANTONYMS: (v) blame, accuse, chide, discipline, include, reprimand, castigate; (n) accusation execute: (v) do, achieve, complete, perform, accomplish, act, effect, carry out, enforce, make, fulfill. ANTONYMS: (v) abandon, ignore, disregard, Miss, forget, shirk, revive exit: (n) departure, door, egress, outlet, going, gate, way out; (v) leave, go, go out, die. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, entry, entrance, greeting; (v) arrive, come

138 expect: (v) assume, anticipate, demand, understand, hope, think, suppose, calculate, await, abide, conceive. ANTONYMS: (v) fear, despair expecting: (adj) pregnant, confident, with child, heavy, hopeful; (n) family way expense: (n) disbursement, expenditure, price, outlay, amount, toll, fee, payment, costs; (n, v) charge, detriment. ANTONYM: (n) income experience: (v) endure, suffer, examine, meet, live, know, receive; (adj, v) see; (n) event, episode, happening. ANTONYMS: (n) inexperience, greenness, naivete, inability, ignorance expired: (adj) lapsed, deceased, invalid, dead, overdue, extinct, elapsed, out exposition: (n) comment, exhibition, show, explanation, elucidation, clarification, exhibit, description, demonstration, dissertation, fair expound: (v) explicate, elucidate, annotate, elaborate, define, read, clarify, illustrate, interpret; (adj, v) explain, expand eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby blues, guard, propensity, eyen face: (adj, n, v) front; (v) confront, audacity; (n, v) look, aspect, top; (n) side, expression, countenance, exterior, facade. ANTONYMS: (n, v) back; (n) timidity, nobody, underside, shyness, rear; (v) evade, elude, hide, withdraw, submit fact: (n) event, detail, truth, particular, reality, point, thing, occurrence, experience, actuality; (n, v) deed. ANTONYMS: (n) guesswork, fallacy, conjecture, report, falsehood, fiction, concept, fabrication, fantasy, illusion, lie fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet, reasonable, dispassionate, average, fine, impartial; (adj, v) bright; (adj, adv) clean; (n) blonde. ANTONYMS: (adj) biased, unjust, exceptional, dark, partial, mismatched, unwarranted, foul, imbalanced, prejudiced, poor fairly: (adj, adv) justly; (adv) moderately, honestly, completely, purely, impartially, somewhat, righteously, lightly, rightly, squarely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unjustly, extremely, subjectively, very, dishonestly, unreasonably, completely, entirely, unlawfully,

Pericles excessively, wholly faith: (n) confidence, belief, conviction, trust, credence, credit, creed, assurance, cult, expectation, dependence. ANTONYMS: (n) disbelief, distrust, dubiosity, skepticism, despair, uncertainty, doubt, independence faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct, exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing, dependable, devoted, sound, devout; (adj, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) unreliable, false, inaccurate, unfaithful, unrealistic, faithless, perfidious, backstabbing, cheating, inexact, loose faithfulness: (n) devotion, constancy, allegiance, truth, accuracy, loyalty, dedication, faith, exactness, adherence; (adj, n) honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) disloyalty, unfaithfulness, inaccuracy, dishonesty, disobedience, wickedness, indifference fall: (n, v) decline, dip, rain, decrease, plunge, dive; (n) downfall, descent, autumn; (v) descend, sink. ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase, win, climb, triumph; (n) ascent, improvement, rising; (v) ascend, advance, conquer, elevate fame: (n, v) credit, celebrity, report, reputation, renown, cry; (n) distinction, bruit, honor, prestige, buzz. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, obscurity, anonymity, ignominy, dishonor, commonness, oblivion, criticism famous: (adj) celebrated, splendid, distinguished, renowned, illustrious, famed, capital, prominent, well-known, fine, stunning. ANTONYMS: (adj) infamous, ordinary, anonymous, insignificant, obscure, inglorious, undistinguished fancies: (n) stock fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment, board, table, charge, chow, menu, traveller; (v) come, eat. ANTONYM: (v) stop farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, salutation, welcome faster: (adv) sooner, fleet, swift, quick, express, earlier fate: (n, v) doom; (n) chance, luck, fatality, fortune, kismet, allotment, portion, lot; (v) destine, designate. ANTONYMS: (n) will, design,

choice, accident, chance fates: (adj) book of fate, Parcae, sky; (n) fortune, the fates father: (n) dad, begetter, creator, abba, patriarch, beginner, founder, padre; (n, v) sire; (v) engender, generate. ANTONYMS: (n) disciple, follower fear: (n) awe, dismay, alarm, fright, consternation, care, anguish; (n, v) apprehension, doubt, concern, reverence. ANTONYMS: (n) fearlessness, reassurance, confidence, courage, valor, calm, boldness, security, equanimity, peace; (v) brave fearful: (adj, n) afraid; (adj, v) dreadful, cowardly; (adj) terrible, apprehensive, awful, timid, anxious, craven, frightful, eerie. ANTONYMS: (adj) rational, calm, confident, bold, unimpressed, charming, fearless, courageous, reassuring, unafraid, wonderful fearfully: (adv) timidly, timorously, awfully, apprehensively, horrendously, hideously, anxiously, appallingly, terribly; (adj, adv) shockingly, dreadfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) bravely, calmly, confidently, wonderfully, rationally, unconcernedly feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) feed, eat. ANTONYMS: (v) abstain, starve; (n) snack feathers: (n) plumage, fur, indument, garment, garb, fine hair, clothing, dress, apparel, attire, array feed: (v) eat, dine, browse, encourage, board, diet, nourish, fatten; (n, v) nurture, provender; (n) aliment. ANTONYMS: (v) thwart, crave, desire, sap feeds: (n) feeding feel: (v) experience, finger, handle, consider, find; (n, v) sense, sound; (n) feeling, texture, atmosphere, air. ANTONYMS: (v) observe, doubt, question, mistrust, ignore, disregard, disbelieve, challenge feeling: (n) affection, feel, emotion, sensitivity, mood, hunch, opinion, belief, impression, atmosphere; (adj, n) sentiment. ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, overtone, insensibility, certainty, insensitivity, hatred, trust; (adj) unfeeling feet: (v) legs, pegs, pins, trotters; (n) foots, ft, fete, meter, rescue fell: (v) cut, chop, bring down, drop,

William Shakespeare cut down; (adj) barbarous, cruel; (adj, v) prostrate, floor, knock down; (n) skin. ANTONYMS: (v) construct, erect, raise, build fellow: (adj, n) comrade, associate; (n) boy, equal, brother, peer, chap, colleague, compeer, buddy; (adj, n, v) concomitant. ANTONYMS: (n) female, woman, girl, foe, enemy, antagonist, competitor felt: (v) mat, tangle, snarl, braid, entangle, lace, perceive; (adj) sensed, perceived, conscious, sensible female: (n) woman, girl, she, wife, hen, spouse, squaw; (adj) feminine, distaff, pistillate, not male. ANTONYMS: (adj) masculine, manly, androgynous, manlike; (n) man, boy fence: (n, v) hedge, wall, bar; (n) barrier, hurdle, pale, boundary; (v) quibble, enclose, parry, contend. ANTONYMS: (v) challenge, face, confront fencing: (n) swordplay, enclosure, paling, evasion, barrier, railing, inclosure, weir; (v) prevarication, equivocation, fraud fervour: (n) ardour, fervidness, fervency, fervor, ardor, enthusiasm, eagerness, zest, elan, ardency, fire fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, get, attract; (adj, n) feint field: (n) area, battlefield, ground, place, domain, discipline, range, realm, battleground, section, compass fierce: (adj) bitter, acute, cruel, ferocious, brutal, grim, nasty, intense, ardent; (adj, v) savage, furious. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, mild, calm, quiet, tame, docile, weak, peaceful, pleasant fifth: (n) interval, twenty percent, common fraction, fifth part; (adv) fifthly; (v) decimate figure: (n, v) form, design, cast, estimate, shape, image; (v) count, cipher; (adj, n) appearance; (n) character, cost. ANTONYM: (v) estimate fill: (v) block, clog, stuff, line, charge, execute, accomplish, complete, brim, fulfill; (n) crowd. ANTONYMS: (v) empty, free, deplete, unpack, unload, notch, deflate, desert find: (v) catch, detect, encounter, come across, feel, attain, ascertain; (n) detection, disclosure, search, discovery. ANTONYMS: (v) misplace, search, fail; (n) loss

finding: (n) detection, judgment, determination, discovery, verdict, ruling, breakthrough, resolution, doom, decree, find fine: (adj) delicate, dainty, agreeable, nice, thin, elegant, capital, excellent, brave; (n) penalty; (v) punish. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, thick, wide, coarse, unsatisfactory, substantial, wretched, unpleasant, unimpressive, dark, cloudy fire: (v) eject, dismiss, kindle, ignite; (n, v) discharge, blaze, flame, explode; (n) ardor, conflagration, fervor. ANTONYMS: (v) hire, defuse, deflate, employ, dampen, detain; (n) laziness fired: (adj) discharged, unemployed, passionate, interested, heated, enthusiastic, ablaze, zealous fish: (n) bird, eel, fishing, Pisces, anchovy, chondrichthian, alewife, shellfish; (v) seek, hunt, pursue fisherman: (n) fisher, trawler, black cat, fisher cat, piscator, troller, Peterman; (v) sportsman, huntsman fishers: (n) family Mustelidae, ferrets, Mustelidae fishes: (n) amphibians, Craniata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata, birds fitly: (adv) appropriately, properly, fittingly, decorously, aptly, befittingly, readily, accommodately, expediently, suitly, justly fitment: (n) facility, gear, furnishing, fitments, furniture, equipment, article of furniture fits: (v) epilepsy, bustle, racket, fuss, hubbub, megrims, rout, subsultus, staggers fitter: (n) adjuster, machinist, sartor, cutter, mounter, erector; (adj) suitable, healthier five: (n) fives, quintuplet, quint, Phoebe, basketball team, fin, squad, ace, digit; (adj, n) v; (adj) quinary flags: (n) streamer, streamers, sidewalk, trottoir, pavement, walk, footpath, bunting; (adj) wood pavement, flagstone flame: (adj, n) fire, sweetheart; (adj, v) burn, glow; (n, v) flash; (n) ardour, burning, fervor, enthusiasm, combustion, sheen flatter: (v) fawn, adulate, wheedle, cajole, soap, kowtow, blandish, grovel, butter up; (n, v) court; (n) caress. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, disparage, criticize, discourage flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney, compliment, adulation, taffy,

139 palaver, praise, gloze, sweet talk, sycophancy, soft soap. ANTONYMS: (n) insult, offense flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, frame, person, mankind, humanity, meat flight: (adj, n) herd, flying, bevy, drove; (n) escape, run, exodus, evasion, elopement, departure; (n, v) avolation flourish: (n, v) display; (v) thrive, prosper, boast, wave, brag, wield, boom, grow; (adj, v) bloom; (adv, v) shake. ANTONYMS: (v) decline, struggle, deteriorate, wilt, pine, fade, flounder, decrease, dwindle flower: (n, v) blossom, blow; (v) effloresce, flourish; (adj, n) prime; (n) efflorescence, elite, cream, bouquet, floret, florescence. ANTONYMS: (n) residue; (v) wither flowers: (n) analecta, anthology follow: (v) chase, adopt, adhere, succeed, accompany, abide by, comprehend, ensue, track; (adj, v) catch, grasp. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, lead, head, disobey, deny, ignore, misunderstand, predate, exceed, defy, break followers: (n) adherents, people, entourage, claque, faithful, disciples, supporters, multitude, attendants, support, suite following: (adj) consequent, ensuing, subsequent, consecutive, succeeding; (adj, v) consequential; (n) entourage, pursuit, followers; (adv) under, after. ANTONYMS: (adj) leading, previous, alternate, earlier; (n) nonbelievers food: (n, v) fare; (n) edible, board, nourishment, diet, sustenance, aliment, dish, foodstuff, meat, nurture fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown, idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v) deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull. ANTONYM: (n) savant foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy, dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly. ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible, shrewd, prudent, visionary, diplomatic, levelheaded, sane, rational, mature, judicious forbear: (v) refrain, desist, help, tolerate, abide, eschew, endure, relinquish; (n) predecessor, progenitor, forebear forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert,

140 frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, authorize, stand force: (n, v) drive, squeeze, pressure, thrust; (n) energy, strength, agency; (v) coerce, push, press, compel. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, ineffectiveness, inertia, apathy, moderation; (v) request, wheedle, pull, push, restrain, prevent forces: (n) troop, army, troops, rank and file, services, war, Armed Services, enmity fore: (adv) ahead, before; (adj, adv) forward; (n) bow, head, forefront, stem; (adj, n) front; (adj) anterior, foremost, frontal. ANTONYMS: (adv) aft, behind, rear; (adj) back foreign: (adj) extraneous, extrinsic, alien, exterior, external, exotic, strange, oversea, adventitious, unfamiliar, stranger. ANTONYMS: (adj) familiar, domestic, internal, relevant, national, natural forgive: (v) absolve, excuse, acquit, remit, pardon, justify, to forgive, exonerate, overlook, clear, to excuse. ANTONYMS: (v) condemn, punish, castigate forth: (adv) away, along, onward, ahead, before, on, off, on the high road, on the road, on the way, under way fortune: (n) estate, fate, fluke, destiny, luck, accident, means, assets, riches, abundance, doom. ANTONYM: (n) design fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune, personal narrative, life, journal foster: (v) cultivate, encourage, bring up, advance, cherish, breed, foment, boost, rear, nurture, support. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, destroy, suppress, decrease, thwart, prevent, discourage foul: (adj, v) nasty, base, corrupt, coarse; (adj) filthy, disgusting, evil, unclean, putrid; (n, v) defile, soil. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure; (adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive, humane, attractive, honest, pleasing, fragrant; (v) unclog found: (v) erect, build, base, form, construct, constitute, appoint, institute, set up, create, ground. ANTONYMS: (v) abolish, disband; (adj) lost four: (n) quaternary, foursome, tetrad, quaternion, quadruplet, square, quarter, quad, air, age of man; (adj, n) IV fourteen: (adj, n) XIV

Pericles fourth: (adv) fourthly; (n) interval, third, after part, common fraction, fourth part, quartern, second; (adj) quaternary frail: (adj, v) weak, feeble; (adj) fragile, flimsy, delicate, breakable, rickety, slender, light, slim; (v) faint. ANTONYMS: (adj) substantial, robust, tough, fit, healthy, hearty, perfect, weighty, well, capable, sturdy frame: (n, v) construct, design, fabricate, make, fashion, border, build, forge; (v) draft, erect, contrive framed: (adj) counterfeit, prepared, orderly, methodical, spurious. ANTONYM: (adj) unframed framing: (n) frame, casing, sash, doorcase, cornice, cowcatcher, coaming, deckle, clotheshorse, buffer, derrick free: (adj, v) exempt, liberate, discharge; (adj, adv, v) loose; (v) excuse, extricate, relieve, disentangle, ease; (adj, n) frank; (adj) liberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) restricted, imprisoned, repressive, secure, strict, stuck, confined, tangled, compelled, dependent; (v) confine freely: (adv) loosely, frankly, openly, generously, independently, gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, free, sparely; (adj, adv) spontaneously. ANTONYMS: (adv) reluctantly, deceitfully, accurately, meagerly, parsimoniously, secretly, stingily, unwillingly; (adj) restricted freeze: (v) chill, cool, solidify, block, harden, set; (n) frost, congelation; (n, v) arrest, stop; (adj) frozen. ANTONYMS: (v) thaw, boil, unblock, warm, dissolve, begin, soften french: (adj) Gallic, Frankish, Gallican, Gallian; (v) to take French leave; (n) Frenchman, romance language, French people, Daniel Chester French, profanity, the French frequent: (adj, v) customary, usual, ordinary, incessant; (adj) everyday, many, familiar, continual, habitual; (v) patronize, haunt. ANTONYMS: (adj) infrequent, occasional, intermittent, spasmodic, unusual, few; (v) shun, boycott, avoid fresh: (adj) clean, bracing, novel, bright, recent, original, airy, bold, pure, green; (adj, v) brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) stale, decayed, hot, tired, worn, rotten, off, musty,

muggy, humid, exhausted friend: (adj, n) associate, comrade, companion, fellow, ally; (n) acquaintance, colleague, boyfriend, crony, brother, mate. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, rival, nemesis, adversary, antagonist friendly: (adj, n) favorable; (adj) amiable, affectionate, decent, goodnatured, kind, convivial, companionable, benevolent, amicable; (adj, adv) comradely. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfriendly, distant, disagreeable, aggressive, aloof, formal, frosty, belligerent, curt, reserved, impersonal friends: (n) circle, associates, connections, links, support group, acquaintances fringes: (n) outer edge, border frown: (adj, v) lower; (adj, n) scowl; (n, v) pout, grimace, glower, glare; (adj) black looks, gloam, glout; (v) sulk, gnash. ANTONYM: (v) approve fruit: (n) crop, outgrowth, product, fruitage, progeny, acorn, production, yield, aftermath; (n, v) result; (v) return fulfil: (v) complete, finish, accomplish, do, appease, carry out, execute, carry through, satisfy, perform, fill full: (adj, n) complete, absolute, entire; (adj) abundant, flush, broad, extensive, ample, total, enough; (adj, adv, n) crowded. ANTONYMS: (adj) lacking, starving, hungry, sketchy, incomplete, thin, deserted, partial, restricted, weak; (v) wane furnished: (adj) fitted, arranged, privileged, instruct, carrying weapons, equipt, enlightened; (v) provide, furnish, begone, beset further: (adj, adv) farther, more; (v) advance, encourage, foster, forward; (adj) extra, additional; (n, v) promote; (adv) again, also. ANTONYMS: (v) impede, thwart, discourage, damage, regress, deteriorate, prevent, hinder; (adj) near furtherance: (n) advance, aid, support, promotion, encouragement, improvement, lift, forwarding, fartherance, relief; (n, v) advancement. ANTONYM: (n) impediment furthermore: (adv) besides, further, also, more, again, additionally, in addition, too, what is more; (adv, conj) and; (adj, adv) likewise

William Shakespeare gain: (n, v) profit, benefit, win, catch, advance; (v) derive, earn, get, attain, reach; (n) earnings. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, deficit, disadvantage, setback; (n, v) decrease; (v) reduce, scatter, collapse gains: (n) income, proceeds, profits, winnings, receipts, revenue gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, selfish gallery: (n) balcony, veranda, drift, audience, art gallery, circle, picture gallery, porch, terrace, verandah, corridor gamester: (n) sportsman, player, reveler, dicer, hazarder gaping: (adj, n) agape; (adj) vast, yawning, cavernous, discontinuous, wide, ajar, drowsy, hollow, wide open; (adj, v) oscitant. ANTONYMS: (adj) cramped, narrow garment: (n, v) garb, apparel; (n) habiliment, habit, gown, vest, things, guise; (v) clothe, tog, raiment garments: (n) attire, clothing, dress, apparel, raiment, outfit, costume, garb, array, gear, anything worthless gash: (n, v) slash, scratch, tear, wound, slit, break, rip, slice, crack, score; (n) fissure gave: (v) deliver, allow, allot, provide, furnish, impart, administer; (n) gives gazing: (adj) fixed gelded: (adj) emasculated, cut, castrated, cut down, gashed, down general: (adj, v) common, frequent; (adj) comprehensive, national, universal, ecumenical, current, commonplace, public; (n) chief, commander. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) particular; (adj) narrow, individual, restricted, specialist, detailed, personal, localized, local, precise, limited generation: (n) creation, epoch, era, tribe, offspring, formation, contemporaries, time, period, day; (n, v) genesis gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind, affable, balmy, mild, feeble, compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) tame. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, loud, fierce, caustic, violent, rough, hardhearted, abrupt, heavy, steep, sheer gentleman: (n) gent, Mr, male, patrician, sir, adult male, esquire,

sahib, gentlemen; (adj) gentilhomme, gentlemanly gentlemen: (n) sirs, messieurs gently: (adv) tenderly, slowly, mildly, soft, slow, kindly, delicately, softly, lightly, meekly, quietly. ANTONYMS: (adv) sharply, fiercely, forcefully, harshly, abruptly, violently, severely, roughly, intensely, meanly, heavily gets: (n) getting gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty, ability, talent; (n) donation, flair, bestowal; (n, v) award, present, boon; (adj, n) capacity. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, forfeiture, failing gifts: (n) money, generosity, contributions, charity, caliber, aid, munificence, bounty. ANTONYM: (n) meanness girl: (n) damsel, gal, lady, young woman, maid, lass, fille, wench, daughter, bride, virgin. ANTONYMS: (n) son, boy give: (v) extend, commit, donate, endow, contribute, dispense, deliver, convey, grant; (adj, v) bestow, accord. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, take, withhold, retain, receive, keep, get, hide, conceal, starve, withstand given: (adj) apt, disposed, prone, specified, liable, inclined, granted, fixed, conditional; (n) assumption, particular. ANTONYMS: (adj) taken, unwilling gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, accord giving: (n) endowment, donation, presentation, bestowal, disposal; (adj) liberal, generous, charitable, bighearted, big, humanitarian. ANTONYMS: (adj) nasty, tightfisted, malevolent, mean, stiff, stingy glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay, blithe, delighted, festive, content, delightful, genial, bright, willing. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, apologetic, dismayed, unwilling, disappointed, sorry glance: (n, v) look, peek, flash, peep; (n) gaze, glimpse, coup d'oeil, gander; (v) bounce, glint, ricochet. ANTONYMS: (n, v) study; (n) examination, perusal; (v) stick, stare glass: (n) bottle, drink, goblet, cup, drinking glass, spectacles, glasses, field glass, bowl; (v) glaze; (adj, n) ice glittering: (adj, v) brilliant; (adj)

141 sparkling, flashing, dazzling, glistering, glistening, glinting, shining, scintillating, splendid; (adj, adv) aglitter glorious: (adj) distinguished, beautiful, bright, celebrated, brilliant, eminent, magnificent, super, great, splendid; (adj, v) illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sorrowful, despicable, horrible, shameful, lowly glory: (n) celebrity, brightness, honor, distinction, glorification, eclat, dignity; (n, v) halo, pride; (v) exult, boast. ANTONYMS: (v) blasphemy, lament, profanity; (n) dishonor, disrepute, ugliness, blame, criticism gloze: (n) flattery, adulation, extenuate, excuse, apologize, blandishment; (v) pet, soothe, blandish, flatter, adulate goal: (n) destination, butt, purpose, design, end, basket, objective, intention, object, target, ambition. ANTONYM: (n) extension goddess: (n) divinity, God, beauty, nymph; (adj, n) idol; (adj) duck, darling, angel, Dulcinea, ladylove, inamorata godlike: (adj) celestial, heavenly, seraphic, holy, angelic, godly, divine worship, deified, elysian, foreboding, divine songs gods: (n) gallery going: (n) exit, leaving, parting, expiration, disappearance, action; (v) go, course, to go; (adj) working, running. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, Reunion gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth, bullion, treasure, yellow, amber; (adj) aureate, gilt, golden golden: (adj) aureate, fortunate, gilded, auspicious, gold, gilt, lucky, advantageous, fair, favorable, favored. ANTONYM: (adj) inauspicious gone: (adj, prep) past; (adj) deceased, bygone, departed, desperate, lost, late; (adj, v) exhausted, extinct; (adj, adv) absent, away. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, remaining, found, alive goodly: (adv) benignly, kindly, strongly, rightly, graciously, virtuously, soundly, uprightly; (adj) sizable, handsome, respectable goodness: (adj, n) generosity, kindness, gentleness; (n) good, excellence, benefit, virtue, worth, morality; (adj) favor, beneficence. ANTONYMS: (n) evil, wickedness,

142 badness, corruptness, bad, immorality, corruption gosling: (n) gesling, goose, young goose govern: (n, v) direct, control, reign, rule; (v) administer, dictate, dominate, manage, check, bridle, regulate. ANTONYM: (v) deregulate government: (n, v) administration, management, conduct; (adj, n) authority, control, empire, rule; (n) command, dominion, governance, cabinet governor: (n) chief, manager, regulator, administrator, lord, superintendent, ruler, controller, leader, president, protector gown: (n) robe, clothing, cassock, vestment, wrapper, overclothes, outerwear, uniform, tunic, clothes; (v) clothe grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, embellish, beautify, decorate, embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, demean graceful: (adj) beautiful, delicate, amiable, easy, fine, charming, fair, airy, becoming, lovely, lithe. ANTONYMS: (adj) inelegant, stocky, awkward, vigorous, jerky, ugly, stilted, heavy, coarse, strenuous gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, courteous, compassionate, kind, accommodating, civil; (adj, n) benevolent, congenial, gentle. ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, boorish, discourteous, reserved, rude, abrupt, critical, unkind, hardhearted, harsh, poor graciously: (adv) gracefully, mildly, politely, courteously, benevolently, benignantly, civilly, sympathetically, mercifully, leniently, suavely. ANTONYMS: (adv) bitterly, coarsely, poorly, ungraciously, harshly grant: (adj, v) bestow, allow, confer; (n, v) award, gift, boon; (v) concede, afford, admit, acknowledge; (adj, n, v) present. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, reject, refuse, maintain, prohibit, disagree, retrieve, take, withhold, withdraw grave: (adj) solemn, serious, critical, earnest, dangerous, sedate, sad, grand; (adj, v) severe, acute; (v) engrave. ANTONYMS: (adj)

Pericles frivolous, funny, cheerful, carefree, slight, nonchalant, trivial, stable, minor, insignificant, favorable graves: (n) Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves great: (adj) eminent, gigantic, big, distinguished, large, extensive, extreme, grand, chief, ample, massive. ANTONYMS: (adj) awful, insignificant, tiny, mild, poor, minor, useless, ordinary, slight, weak, unknown greatness: (n) excellence, dimension, dignity, bulk, size, enormousness, bigness, enormity, grandness, magnitude, fame. ANTONYMS: (n) obscurity, austerity, commonness, mildness, moderation, simplicity greece: (n) Hellenic Republic, Ellas green: (adj) callow, immature, young, jealous, youthful, emerald, crude, juvenile, gullible, inexperienced; (adj, v) raw. ANTONYMS: (adj) ripe, urban, withering, sophisticated, seasoned, old, arid, mature, limp, artificial greet: (n, v) receive; (v) address, acknowledge, hail, welcome, cry, salute, bid, weep, meet, recognize grew: (v) become, develop; (adj) grown grief: (adj, n, v) affliction; (n) dolor, anguish, distress, agony, pain, wound, chagrin, concern; (n, v) regret; (adj) sore. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, happiness, comfort, content, peace grieve: (n, v) distress, aggrieve, afflict, sorrow, annoy; (v) trouble, lament, deplore, bemoan, fret, bewail. ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice, celebrate, encourage grieved: (adj) sore, sad, sorry, sorrowful, upset, woeful, pained, affected, brokenhearted grim: (adj) austere, glum, cheerless, dour, ghastly, dreary, forbidding, dark, dire, hard, dismal. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, bright, funny, kindly, hospitable, pleasant, promising, simple, wonderful groan: (n, v) grumble, murmur, cry, sigh, mutter, squeak, rumble, scrape; (v) howl, complain; (n) complaint ground: (n, v) base, land, floor; (v) found, establish; (adj, n, v) bottom; (n) earth, reason, field, soil, dirt. ANTONYMS: (n) sea, figure; (v) launch, top grow: (v) expand, advance, augment, enlarge, come, emerge, spring, become, farm, turn, get.

ANTONYMS: (v) decrease, weaken, shrink, decline, drop, collapse, struggle, wane, plummet, dwindle, deteriorate guest: (n) caller, visitor, customer, alien, foreigner, client, invite, foreign, company, guests, houseguest guests: (n) guest, visitors guide: (n, v) escort, conduct, govern, channel, control, usher, cicerone; (n) directory, attendant; (v) drive, bring. ANTONYM: (v) follow habit: (n) clothing, practice, dress, garb, attire, convention, character, ritual, addiction, clothes; (n, v) use. ANTONYM: (n) innovation hail: (v) address, cry, acclaim, applaud, summon, accost, fall, cheer, salute; (n, v) call; (n) greeting. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, criticize hair: (n) coat, coma, haircloth, pile, locks, filament, fleece, fur, hairbreadth, down, forelock hairs: (n) hair half: (adj) moiety, part, short, defective; (n) semi, mediety, halve, division, piece, first half; (adv) partly. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) all; (adj) fully, complete hall: (n) mansion, vestibule, lobby, foyer, auditorium, court, entrance hall, anteroom, concourse; (n, v) corridor, passage hand: (v) give, pass, commit, bestow, afford, communicate, consign; (n) deal, worker, aid, applause. ANTONYMS: (n) boss, foot; (v) take hands: (n) custody, keeping, personnel, safekeeping, hold, shift, workforce, men, manpower, guardianship, full complement handsome: (adj) fair, beautiful, fine, generous, charming, comely, attractive, bountiful, considerable, bonny, prepossessing. ANTONYMS: (adj) ugly, unattractive, meager, ungenerous, measly, plain hang: (adj, n, v) suspend; (v) dangle, depend, drape, float, fall, hover, append, string up; (n, v) delay; (adj) hung hangman: (n) executioner, headsman, hanger, tormentor, tiger, boggle, crossword puzzle, scrabble, wild beast, hyena happily: (adv) fortunately, joyously, joyfully, merrily, luckily, gladly, blissfully, cheerfully, felicitously, providentially, successfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) miserably, unhappily, sadly, unfortunately,

William Shakespeare unsuccessfully, reluctantly, gloomily, discontentedly, despondently, negatively, grudgingly happiness: (n) delight, merriment, ecstasy, welfare, gladness, luck, cheerfulness, blessedness, bliss, felicity, contentment. ANTONYMS: (n) sadness, despair, grief, misery, dissatisfaction, seriousness, dullness, discontent, dejection, gloominess, displeasure happy: (adj) felicitous, contented, gay, buoyant, content, gleeful, gratified, pleasant, glad, carefree; (adj, n) auspicious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sad, depressed, dejected, sorrowful, miserable, unlucky, sorry, reluctant, irritable, unfortunately, gloomy harbourage: (n) refuge, port, anchorage hardly: (adj, adv) barely, scarcely; (adv) severely, harshly, roughly, badly, toughly, laboriously, arduously, cruelly, heavily. ANTONYMS: (adv) extremely, fully, well, easily hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look harmony: (n) accord, consonance, agreement, correspondence, accordance, congruity, consistency, amity; (n, v) concord, peace; (v) concert. ANTONYMS: (n) discord, disagreement, argument, conflict, bitterness, harshness, incongruity, uproar, hostility, misery, upheaval harsh: (adj, v) sharp, bitter; (adj, n) grating, coarse, austere, discordant; (adj) grim, cruel, crude, unkind, stern. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, soft, harmonious, pleasant, lenient, kind, melodious, sweet, mild, lush, friendly harvest: (n, v) fruit; (v) gain, glean, gather, amass, get, reap, pick; (n) ingathering, profit, produce haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, rush; (n) celerity, expedition, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, patience, forethought, caution hatched: (adj) crosshatched, born, ruled hate: (v) abhor, detest, loathe, abominate; (n) enmity, abhorrence, detestation, hatred, animosity, antipathy, aversion. ANTONYMS: (n, v) like; (v) adore, cherish, admire; (n) attraction, liking,

delight, adoration having: (n) estate, possession, acceptance, enjoyment hazard: (n, v) chance, venture, endanger, peril, adventure, bet, wager; (n) danger, fortune, jeopardy, accident. ANTONYMS: (n) safety, security; (v) protect head: (n) captain, boss, froth, foam, crown, chieftain; (n, v) point, lead; (adj, n, v) front; (v) capital, direct. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) subordinate; (n) end, beginning, foot, mouth, rear, tail, body, underling, base; (adj) minor heads: (n) conspectus, contents, prospectus, syllabus, synopsis, public, textbook, people, outlines, head stick health: (n) condition, fitness, welfare, pledge, strength, form, hygiene, sanitation, salubrity, shape; (adj) sanitary heap: (n, v) pile, aggregate, amass; (n) collection, accumulation, mound, mass, group, lot; (v) bank, collect. ANTONYM: (v) tidy hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out, discover, understand, apprehend, hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj) heard heard: (n) hearing hearing: (n) audition, ear, auditory sense, trial, consultation, reach, auscultation, inquiry; (n, v) earshot, sound; (adj, n) audience heart: (adj, n) core, gist, marrow; (n) spirit, center, essence, basis, kernel, crux, breast, hub. ANTONYMS: (n) body, surface hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades heat: (adj, n) fever, excitement, passion; (v) bake, burn; (n) warmth, fervor, summer, estrus; (n, v) fire; (adj) flush. ANTONYMS: (n) cold, chill, coldness, anestrus, apathy, coolness, dryness, indifference heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, miserable, infernal, hellish, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial sphere, space, skies, area, vault of heaven heavy: (adj, n) dull; (adj) deep, fat,

143 dense, grave, dark, full, gross, thick, bulky; (adj, adv) hard. ANTONYMS: (adj) slim, easy, thin, slight, skinny, puny, gentle, insubstantial, animated, nimble, entertaining height: (n) apex, crest, altitude, pinnacle, peak, top, culmination, level, zenith, summit, climax. ANTONYMS: (n) shortness, nadir, depth, trough, deepness, base, dip heinous: (adj) atrocious, grievous, evil, wicked, flagrant, flagitious, monstrous, hateful; (adj, v) gross, nefarious, infamous. ANTONYM: (adj) good heir: (n) beneficiary, successor, offspring, inheritor, heiress, receiver, progeny, heritor, descendant, scion, issue. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, donor held: (adj) absorbed, confined, kept, apprehended, seized, supposed, reputed, tenable, thought, trapped; (v) detain hell: (n) blaze, Hades, underworld, perdition, inferno, pandemonium, netherworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, purgatory, trial. ANTONYM: (n) paradise help: (n, v) assist, assistance, support, benefit, favor, avail, cure, assistant; (v) facilitate, ease, alleviate. ANTONYMS: (n) hindrance, detriment, interference, damage, disadvantage, disservice, manager; (v) worsen, aggravate, halt, hurt hence: (adv) consequently, for that reason, therefore, thereby, away, thus, for, then, because, henceforth, as a result herald: (n) forerunner, courier, messenger; (v) declare, foretell, announce, bode, proclaim, introduce, foreshadow; (n, v) augur. ANTONYMS: (v) follow; (n) successor hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter, afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity, time to come, great beyond, future life hers: (pron) she, his; (adj) own herself: (adj) oneself, self, himself, myself, yourself, yourselves, themselves, ourselves, itself high: (adj, v) elevated; (adj) great, expensive, distinguished, lofty, tall, exalted, heavy, dear; (n) chief; (v) bad. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) low; (adj) deep, short, sober, reasonable, sad, resonant, lowly, husky,

144 unimportant; (n) depression higher: (adj) greater, upper, major, senior, over, more, better, advanced, bigger; (prep) above, upon. ANTONYMS: (adj) basic, junior, lower highness: (n) excellency, altitude, loftiness, nobility, greatness, eminence, size, stateliness, majesty, high, grandeur hills: (n) home, dry land, foothills, earth, ground himself: (pron) herself, themselves, yourself, itself; (adj) myself; (n) yourselves history: (n) account, story, chronicle, annals, background, record, narrative, biography, explanation, origin; (n, v) tale hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither hold: (n, v) keep, grip, grasp, entertain; (v) endure, detain, adhere, bear, have, contain, comprise. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, disagree, lose, free, deny, remove, lack; (n) separation, repulsion hollow: (adj, n) blank; (n) cavity, depression, cave, dell; (adj) empty, false; (adj, n, v) concave; (n, v) excavate, dent, scoop. ANTONYMS: (adj) convex, sincere, true, full, meaningful, cramped, valid; (n) hump, bump, hill, lump holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly, religious, blessed, hallowed, spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv) saintly; (adv) sacredly. ANTONYMS: (adj) irreligious, unholy home: (n) domicile, abode, house, residence, base, place, dwelling, family, habitation; (adj) domestic; (adj, n) household. ANTONYMS: (adj) external, national, public, away, foreign; (adv) out honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere, good, equitable, artless, heartfelt, guileless, frank, forthright, faithful. ANTONYMS: (adj) lying, misleading, guarded, corrupt, disloyal, unwholesome, discourteous, disreputable, fictional, crafty, crooked honey: (n) dear, love, beloved, nectar, sweetheart, dearest, duck, molasses, sugar, baby; (v) sweeten honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, homage, celebrity, accolade, reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dishonor; (v) disrespect

Pericles honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, venerable, glorious, honorable, distinguished, aboveboard, good, worthy, right, noble honouring: (n) homage, accolade hope: (n, v) trust, desire; (n) aspiration, faith, belief, expectation, confidence, expectancy, anticipation; (v) confide, anticipate. ANTONYMS: (n) reality, past, pessimism, distrust, independence horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin, junk, charger, knight, pony, rider, trestle, eohippus, dog hostile: (adj) aggressive, contrary, adverse, warlike, belligerent, unfavorable, averse, opposed, antagonistic, inimical, irreconcilable. ANTONYMS: (adj) soothing, warm, allied, open, amicable, favorable, sympathetic, gentle, harmonious, hospitable, lush hour: (n) clock, o'clock, hours, time, hr, term, nonce, moment, occasion, dawn, dusk hourly: (adv) always, by the hour, daily, often, constantly, continually, frequently; (adj) horary, continual, ephemeral; (n) an hour hours: (n) period, duty period; (adv) o'clock house: (adj, n, v) family; (adj, n) home; (v) accommodate; (n) dwelling, firm, abode, domicile, edifice, habitation, housing; (n, v) lodge. ANTONYM: (adj) public household: (adj, n) house, home; (adj) domestic; (adj, v) ordinary, common; (n) folk, stock, clan, menage; (v) everyday, usual. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, public huge: (adj) vast, immense, large, gigantic, enormous, extensive, great, colossal, elephantine, major, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) insignificant, miniature, small, affordable, compact, measly, minor, minute, slight, slim humming: (adj) droning, zippy, reeking, bustling, grunting, stinking; (n) buzzing, vocalizing, sound, murmur, growling hunger: (n, v) thirst, want, wish, itch; (n) craving, appetite, eagerness, famine; (v) crave, ache; (adj) hungry. ANTONYMS: (n) moderation, aversion, dislike, apathy hurt: (adj, n, v) damage, detriment; (adj, n) evil; (n, v) wound, pain, ache, distress; (n) disadvantage, lesion; (v) afflict; (adj, v) injure.

ANTONYMS: (adj) unhurt, unaffected, healed; (v) encourage, please, protect, repair, defend; (n, v) help; (n) reparation, pleasure hurting: (adj) aching, painful, tender; (n) hurt, ache, sting, pain, colic, dysmenorrhea, agony; (v) causing pain. ANTONYM: (adj) painless husband: (v) conserve, economize, preserve, save; (n) consort, hubby, man, fellow, lover, master, mate. ANTONYMS: (n) wife, bachelor husbandry: (n) cultivation, farming, economy, frugality, culture, conservation, thrift, tillage, dairying, horticulture, gardening imagination: (n) vision, fancy, image, dream, conceit, imagery, originality, invention, resource, reflection, phantasy immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, undying, endless, monumental; (adj, v) deathless, imperishable, celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, forgettable, perishable, temporary immortality: (n) sempiternity, perpetuity, athanasia, glory, aye, fame, everness, immortal, permanency, deathlessness, undying. ANTONYM: (n) mortality imply: (n, v) denote, betoken; (v) connote, hint, allude, intimate, entail, mean, indicate, convey; (adj, v) involve impossible: (adj) unimaginable, insufferable, unbelievable, hopeless, impracticable, impractical, inconceivable, unlikely, unthinkable, unable, ridiculous. ANTONYMS: (adj) feasible, achievable, manageable, bearable, attainable, on, tolerable, probable, hopeful, easy, consistent impostor: (n) fraud, cheat, hypocrite, fake, imposter, sham, charlatan, deceiver, faker, cheater, pretender impudence: (adj, n) boldness, brass; (n) cheek, gall, audacity, impertinence, insolence, face, cheekiness, effrontery, assurance. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, reticence incensed: (adj) angry, exasperated, enraged, indignant, irate, infuriated, irritated, mad, livid, angered, aggravated. ANTONYM: (adj) pleased incest: (n) criminal congress, idolatry, adultery inch: (n) in, bit, column inch, morsel; (v) crawl, creep, ease; (adj) tatter,

William Shakespeare mite, seed, shive inclination: (n, v) desire, bent; (n) fancy, affection, tendency, leaning, drift, appetite, dip, proclivity, bias. ANTONYMS: (n) disinclination, reluctance, aversion, indifference, unwillingness, antipathy, dislike, horror increase: (n, v) extend, gain, accrue, augmentation, extension; (adj, n, v) augment; (v) grow, expand, aggrandize, enhance; (n) addition. ANTONYMS: (n, v) decrease; (n) reduction, contraction, decline; (v) reduce, diminish, drop, deteriorate, damage, abate, contract indeed: (adv) certainly, exactly, in reality, surely, of course, assuredly, as a matter of fact, admittedly; (adj, adv) really, much; (n) yes. ANTONYMS: (adv) possibly, doubtfully indenture: (n, v) indent; (n) deed, covenant, agreement, contract, indentation, notch, assurance, charter; (v) bind, oblige industry: (n) application, diligence, effort, assiduity, industriousness, trade, toil, labor, work, assiduousness, exertion. ANTONYM: (n) sloth inestimable: (adj) incalculable, immeasurable, invaluable, infinite, priceless, incomputable, valuable, precious, untold, costly, beyond measure. ANTONYMS: (adj) worthless, slight, minor, limited infant: (n) child, babe, minor, nursling, youngster, chick, toddler, suckling, kid, pappoose; (adj, n) juvenile infected: (adj) diseased, dirty, impure, tainted, festering, corrupt, unclean, morbid, stained, spoiled, soiled. ANTONYM: (adj) healthy inflame: (v) burn, fire, enkindle, incite, kindle, ignite, incense, arouse, heat, agitate; (adj, v) irritate. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, blanch, inhibit, improve inflamed: (adj) impassioned, excited, angry, hot, flaming, ablaze, irritated, passionate, painful, burning; (n) red inflaming: (adj) burning, consuming, inflammatory, excessively hot, exciting, fiery; (n) arousal inhabitants: (n) population, citizens, populace, folk, country, community, abode, group, inhabitation, nation, natives inhospitable: (adj) unsociable, cold, hostile, unfriendly, cool, harsh,

barren, austere, frosty, stark, bleak. ANTONYMS: (adj) hospitable, welcoming, sheltered, lush, mild iniquity: (adj, n) depravity; (n) inequity, wickedness, immorality, injustice, crime, sin, vice, darkness, villainy, sinfulness. ANTONYMS: (n) goodness, good inquiring: (adj) inquisitive, quizzical, interested, analytical, probing, intrusive; (adj, n) questioning; (v) inquire; (n) enquiry, question, examination. ANTONYM: (adj) uninquiring inscription: (n) epigraph, entry, dedication, autograph, epitaph, registration, lettering, writing, record, superscription, title instantly: (adv, n) directly; (adj, adv) immediately, at once; (adv) instantaneously, promptly, forthwith, now, readily, quickly, momently, momentarily. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, slowly, gradually instruct: (v) charge, educate, teach, advise, enlighten, direct, drill, inform, command, indoctrinate, tutor instrument: (n) channel, deed, tool, pawn, apparatus, agency, document, expedient, appliance, gear; (n, v) implement intent: (n) idea, intention, design, spirit, meaning, import, goal, purpose; (adj, n) attentive; (adj) absorbed, engrossed interim: (adj) transitory, acting, provisional, impermanent, transient; (n) interval, interlude, pause, while, lag; (adv) meantime. ANTONYM: (adj) permanent interpret: (v) clarify, understand, elucidate, illustrate, read, construe, comment, gloss, render, explain, explicate interrupt: (v) disturb, break, hinder, intermit, stop, cut, break in, arrest, check; (n, v) suspend; (adj, v) pause. ANTONYMS: (v) cheer, respect, restore invite: (v) tempt, allure, bid, call, entice, ask, summon, attract, receive, solicit; (n) invitation. ANTONYMS: (v) elect, repel invited: (adj) welcomer, wanted, cherished inward: (adj) inner, intrinsic, internal, interior, intestine, inherent, domestic; (adv) inwardly, inwards, in; (n) innards. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) outward; (adj) outgoing,

145 external issue: (v) emanate, arise, emerge; (n) aftermath, progeny, consequence, effect; (n, v) egress, release, exit, result. ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, trickle, withhold; (n) resolution itself: (adj) herself, self, oneself, personally, myself, themselves, yourself jangling: (n) janglery; (adj) harsh, dissonant, discordant, strident, cacophonic, cacophonous jewel: (n) gemstone, darling, diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure, ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou, precious stone; (adj) brilliant jewels: (n) jewelry, gems, wealth, hoops, Perrie, riches, studs, fortune, fineness, earrings, decoration joint: (n) seam, articulation, hinge, connection; (n, v) join; (adj) mutual, communal, common, collective, cooperative; (v) articulate. ANTONYMS: (adj) individual, unilateral, private, separate, solitary journey: (n, v) jaunt, go, travel, cruise, fare; (n) excursion, way, expedition, trip, passage, voyage. ANTONYM: (v) settle jove: (n) Jovian, Jovinianist, thunderer judged: (n) judging; (adj) guilty, deliberate, legal, lawful judgement: (n) adjudication, evaluation, discretion, determination, discernment, opinion, assessment, decision, conclusion, estimate, belief justice: (adj, n) equity, right, integrity, honesty; (n) judge, impartiality, judicature, jurist, morality, justness; (adj) just. ANTONYMS: (n) unfairness, wickedness justify: (v) explain, exonerate, vindicate, confirm, absolve, defend, deserve, apologize, claim, palliate; (n, v) warrant justly: (adv) accurately, fairly, correctly, honestly, lawfully, properly, exactly, uprightly, legitimately, impartially, purely. ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly, unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly, unlawfully, sinfully, falsely, immorally keel: (n) foot, hoof, carina, root, fin keel; (v) careen, cool, pitch, tumble, droop, flag keep: (n, v) hold; (v) preserve, retain, defend, guard, maintain, continue, have, save, confine, observe.

146 ANTONYMS: (v) lose, neglect, entrust, return, let, discontinue, reimburse, allow, stop, destroy, break kept: (adj) reserved, preserve, retained, remain, store, reserve, hold, lodge, keep, retain, detained. ANTONYM: (adj) broken kill: (n, v) assassinate, destroy; (v) erase, annihilate, eliminate, extinguish, finish, blast, decimate, execute, eradicate. ANTONYMS: (v) revitalize, revive; (n) hunter kind: (n) sort, form, class, variety, breed; (adj, n) helpful, good, humane, friendly, gentle; (adj) generous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unkind, cruel, hardhearted, mean, merciless, nasty, spiteful, uncaring, upsetting, callous, disagreeable kindle: (adj, v) inflame; (v) fire, excite, arouse, burn, flame, awaken, incite, enkindle, stir; (n, v) light. ANTONYMS: (v) enkindle, dampen, calm, extinguish, quench, stifle kindly: (adj) kind, amiable, genial, charitable; (adv) sympathetically, benevolently, tenderly; (adj, n) benign, gentle, sympathetic, benevolent. ANTONYMS: (adv) harshly, nastily, callously, cruelly, sharply, disagreeably, grumpily, malevolently; (adj) upsetting, unfeeling, sour kindness: (n) generosity, clemency, compassion, grace, good will, graciousness, humanity, goodness, affection; (adj, n) courtesy, gentleness. ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, spite, nastiness, callousness, cruelty, unfriendliness, maliciousness, thoughtlessness, sourness, severity, disservice king: (n) mogul, sovereign, chief, crown, tycoon, baron, ruler, magnate, majesty, rex, power. ANTONYM: (n) queen kingdom: (n) domain, realm, state, empire, dominion, territory, nation, crown, monarchy, department, land kingly: (adj, adv) stately; (adj) August, noble, regal, imperial, sovereign, majestic, royal; (adv) royally, majestically, regally kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace, touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate, love knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard, crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, varlet kneel: (v) genuflect, cringe, stoop,

Pericles bob, cry for quarter, dip, duck, humble oneself; (n) kneeling, knee, movement knees: (n) knee knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, wist knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub knit: (adj, v) tie, lace; (v) plait, intertwine, bind, join, pucker, fasten, interlace; (adj) stitch, knitted knot: (n) bow, cluster, lump, gang, joint; (v) entangle, knit, bind; (n, v) tie, loop, tangle. ANTONYMS: (v) unravel, undo, unknot, disentangle knowing: (adj, v) canny, crafty, wise; (adj, n) clever; (adj) conscious, aware, ingenious, intelligent, bright, conversant, smart. ANTONYMS: (adj) naive, uncomprehending, unconscious knowledge: (n) information, comprehension, science, lore, understanding, intelligence, grasp, erudition, acquaintance; (n, v) cognition; (adj, n) art. ANTONYMS: (n) foolishness, inexperience known: (adj) familiar, knew, conscious, certain, famous, know, eminent, plain, accepted, published, acknowledged. ANTONYMS: (adj) unknown, secret, unidentified, unfamiliar labour: (n, v) travail, labor, toil; (v) grind, fag, drudge; (n) exertion, employment, confinement, childbed, business lading: (n, v) load, burden, weight; (n) freight, consignment, shipment, loading, shipping, freightage, product, wares lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. ANTONYM: (n) Lord lame: (adj) crippled, disabled, halting, feeble, halt, weak, paralytic; (adj, n) game; (adj, v) paralyze, maim, becripple lament: (v) bemoan, complain, deplore, grieve, keen, bewail, mourn; (n) dirge, complaint; (n, v) wail, moan. ANTONYMS: (n) celebration, joy; (v) revel, rejoice, celebrate, applaud, praise, compliment lamentation: (n) dirge, grief, mourning, plaint, regret, complaint, cry, crying, wail, moan, condolence. ANTONYM: (n) celebration lance: (n) pike, javelin, shaft, lancet,

assegai, fishgig, fizgig; (v) dart, impale, open, gore land: (n) country, earth, soil, kingdom, field, nation, estate, domain; (v) disembark, debark, get. ANTONYMS: (adj) aquatic, amphibious; (n) sea; (v) lose, depart, embark landing: (n) disembarkation, land, dock, touchdown, debarkation, disembarkment, floor, platform, landing place, bank, bankingground language: (n) speech, expression, lingo, diction, tongue, idiom, jargon, conversation, word, words, terminology large: (adj) ample, generous, considerable, broad, handsome, high, bulky, heavy, capacious, roomy; (adj, n) extensive. ANTONYMS: (adj) small, cramped, insignificant, narrow, microscopic, compact, tiny, thin, short, slim, paltry largely: (adv) chiefly, extensively, widely, mostly, generally, for the most part, spaciously, broadly, liberally, capaciously, voluminously. ANTONYM: (adv) insignificantly lasting: (adj) abiding, everlasting, firm, eternal, enduring, continuous, permanent, constant, perpetual, tough; (adj, v) fast. ANTONYMS: (adj) fleeting, impermanent, superficial, ephemeral, caducous, unstable, occasional, insubstantial, erratic, acute, fickle late: (adj, adv) dilatory, fresh, behindhand, backward; (adj) former, deceased, dead, slow, delayed, modern; (adv) belatedly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) early, punctual; (adv) punctually, promptly; (adj) ahead, existing, alive, initial, middle, old, premature latter: (adj) later, last, terminal, recent, posterior, final, following, the latter, past, other, eventual. ANTONYMS: (adj) prior, earlier laugh: (n, v) joke, giggle, chortle, titter, snicker; (v) smile; (n) jest, gag, jape, laughter, cackle. ANTONYM: (v) weep lawful: (adj) legal, just, rightful, constitutional, true, right, justifiable, licit, regular; (n, v) allowable; (adj, v) permissible. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlawful, prohibited, unconstitutional lawfully: (adv) justly, legally, rightfully, licitly, statutorily, fairly,

William Shakespeare validly, de jure, officially, rightly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unlawfully, illegitimately leading: (adj, v) first, foremost; (adj) outstanding, head, great, capital; (adj, n) main, cardinal, principal; (adj, adv) ahead; (n) lead. ANTONYMS: (adj) secondary, subordinate, following, junior, innocent, last, lousy, unimportant, worst; (adv) behind, losing leafy: (adj) green, verdant, lush, foliose, foliate, leafed, luxuriant, foliaceous, leaved, bowery, flourishing. ANTONYMS: (adj) leafless, urban, withering leap: (n, v) bound, spring, bounce, caper, dive, vault, lunge; (v) dance, hop, start; (n) curvet. ANTONYMS: (n, v) plummet; (v) surface, drop, hesitate; (n) slump learn: (v) get, find, ascertain, hear, find out, have, determine, con, acquire, tell; (n, v) know. ANTONYM: (v) reject learned: (adj) educated, knowledgeable, scholarly, academic, cultured, literary, bookish, lettered; (adj, v) enlightened, wise, knowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) innate, unconditioned, foolish, unlearned least: (n) minimum; (adj) smallest, minimal, littlest, lowest, insignificant, minutest, negligible; (adj, n) smallest amount; (adv) at least, fully. ANTONYMS: (adj) maximum, greatest; (adj, adv) most leave: (v) depart, go, abandon, desert, lead; (adj, v) forsake, quit; (n) furlough, permission, holiday; (n, v) escape. ANTONYMS: (v) enter, arrive, stay, remain, come, approach, change, reposition, disinherit, occupy, participate leaves: (n) departure, leaving, plants, trees, vegetation leaving: (n) leave, exit, desertion, going, going away, farewell, departing, abandonment, withdrawal, boarding; (v) depart. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, greeting, Reunion; (adj) incoming left: (adj) gone, absent, port, odd, remaining, larboard, gauche, sinister; (n) left hand, left wing, mitt. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n) right; (adj) remaining, center, starboard, present legs: (v) pegs, trotters, pins; (n) patience, pedestal, stamina lend: (v) grant, give, advance, impart, bestow, contribute, borrow, bring,

add, confer; (n) lending length: (n, v) extent; (n) distance, range, duration, size, measurement, longness, dimension, depth, compass, quantity. ANTONYMS: (n) shortness, width, breadth, brevity, conciseness lengthen: (adj, v) elongate; (v) enlarge, prolong, draw, draw out, increase, expand, stretch, protract, continue, drag out. ANTONYMS: (v) clip, curtail lent: (n) Quadragesima, Lententide less: (adj) inferior, wanting, minor, secondary, subordinate, deficient, minus, few; (adj, adv) lesser, lower; (adv) below. ANTONYMS: (adj) additional; (prep) plus lesser: (adj) less, inferior, junior, insignificant, petty, subordinate, smaller, secondary, lower, slighter, small. ANTONYMS: (adj) major, primary, senior, superior, higher, main letter: (n) epistle, mail, character, communication, alphabetic character, dispatch, note, message, memorandum, type, memo letters: (n) erudition, literature, correspondence, lore, script, scholarship, post, print, mail, letter, polite literature level: (adj, adv, v) equal; (adj, adv, n, v) flat; (n) grade, degree; (adj, v) flatten; (n, v) floor; (adj) horizontal; (v) dismantle, raze, aim, demolish. ANTONYMS: (adj) slanting, unequal, angled, unsteady, askew, rough, shaky; (adj, v) uneven; (v) raise, build, crumple levy: (v) impose, raise, inflict, recruit; (n) duty, assessment, impost, tribute, toll, gathering; (n, v) charge liable: (adj) answerable, accountable, disposed, apt, responsible, inclined, exposed, likely, subject, culpable, vulnerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwilling, innocent, unlikely, disinclined, impervious liberties: (n) freedoms, familiarity, intimacy licentious: (adj) lewd, immoral, filthy, abandoned, debauched, lascivious, depraved, lecherous, loose, unchaste, wanton. ANTONYMS: (adj) restrained, virtuous, decent lien: (n) bond, mortgage, pledge, plight, spleen, debenture, bill of sale, hypothecation, Retaining lien, paper credit, pignoration lies: (n) fabrication, falsehood, lie,

147 lying, deceit, defamation, denigration, dishonesty, slander, libel, treachery. ANTONYM: (n) truth life: (adj, n) animation; (n) energy, spirit, activity, dash, enthusiasm, being, biography, existence, exuberance, live. ANTONYMS: (n) death, apathy, extinction, nonexistence, lifelessness lift: (n, v) raise, rise, elevator, boost, heave, hike, airlift, advance; (v) elevate, erect, filch. ANTONYMS: (v) lower, descend, drop, hinder, put, return, impose; (n, v) knock light: (adj) fair, facile, faint; (adj, v) clear; (n, v) fire, glow, flame; (v) kindle, inflame, ignite; (n) illumination. ANTONYMS: (adj) heavy, fattening, nauseating, testing, stale; (n) darkness, shade, gloom, night; (v) extinguish, darken lights: (n) illumination, burn, lung, spacing material likely: (adj) believable, probable, plausible, expected, potential, conceivable, apt, prospective, verisimilar; (adv) possibly, maybe. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) unlikely; (adj) improbable, implausible, slight, unwilling, unusual, unbelievable liking: (n, v) inclination; (n) fancy, appetite, taste, fondness, predilection, affection, partiality, admiration, approval, appreciation. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, aversion, hatred, indifference, detachment, dissatisfaction, antipathy line: (n) cord, house, course, family, lineage, breed, field, ancestry, row; (adj, n) file; (n, v) order linen: (n) fabric, flax, lingerie, doily, doyley, doyly, cambric, underwear, underclothes, hemp; (v) muslin lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference per second, chops, porch, portal, portico, propylon, snout, door, orifice list: (n) catalogue, catalog, inclination, index, calendar, enumeration; (n, v) file, tilt, schedule; (v) enter, itemize listening: (v) listen, hear, obey; (n) auscultation, perception, sensing, audition, audience, earshot, auditory modality; (adj) attentive lists: (n) circus, Flavian amphitheater, cockpit, Corso, hippodrome, gymnasium, bear garden, playground, race course, turf, palestra litigious: (adj) disputatious,

148 argumentative, controversial, debatable, litigant, disputative, arguable, disputable, bellicose, battleful, contested little: (adj, adv) small; (adj) diminutive, insignificant, short, tiny, some, brief, petty, minute, exiguous; (adv) rather. ANTONYMS: (adj) enormous, large, important, huge, high, giant, older, old, tall; (adv) frequently, well live: (adj) alive, living; (adj, v) reside, active, dwell, stay; (n, v) subsist; (v) exist, be, abide, endure. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, inactive, silent, dummy, blank, recorded; (v) die, perish, expire livery: (adj) liverish, bilious; (n) clothing, accouterment, uniform, complexion, legal transfer, color, hue, dye, bailment lives: (n) life, living, estate, existence, earnest living living: (adj) alive, live, extant, animated, active, fresh, animate, quick; (n) livelihood, life, being. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n) death, leisure loathed: (adj) unpopular, hated, reviled, undesirable loathing: (n, v) abomination, aversion, dislike, distaste; (n) hate, hatred, abhorrence, detestation, nausea, antipathy, execration. ANTONYMS: (n) love, adoration, liking, delight, goodwill lodge: (n, v) cabin, place, house; (adj, v) live, dwell, reside, inhabit; (n) cottage; (v) quarter, accommodate, fix. ANTONYMS: (v) dislodge, evict lodgings: (n) digs, accommodation, domiciliation, lodging, billet, housing, quarters, residence, pad, living quarters, launchpad long: (v) yearn, desire, hanker, languish, ache, wish; (adj, n) extensive; (n, v) hunger; (adj) extended, lengthy; (n) length. ANTONYMS: (adj) short, brief, concise longer: (adj) longest, better, lengest; (adv) farther; (n) yearner, thirster longest: (adj) best, lengest, fastest, top, record, best ever, greatest longing: (n, v) desire, aspiration; (adj) eager, wistful, nostalgic; (n) nostalgia, wish, hankering, urge, appetite; (adj, n) yearning. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, disinclination; (adj) satisfied, unconcerned look: (n, v) gaze, aspect, figure; (adj,

Pericles v) seem; (v) appear, expect; (n) appearance, expression, view, glance, guise. ANTONYMS: (v) back, study; (n) perusal looking: (n) face, sensing, aspect, approximation, appearance, watching, outlook; (v) look at, examine; (adv) about; (adj) superficial looks: (n) aspect, countenance, expression, manner, complexion, fashion, costume, garb lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, master, God, seignior, nobility, Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n) lady lordship: (n) ownership, supremacy, domain, dominance, manor, worship, authority, power, dynasty, grandeeship, headship lose: (v) drop, forfeit, mislay, miss, sacrifice, fall behind, fail, to lose, forget, clear, hurt. ANTONYMS: (v) find, secure, recover, earn, obtain, acquire, get, win, beat, keep, succeed loss: (adj, n) detriment, damage, injury, harm; (n) defeat, deprivation, deficit, destruction, forfeit, forfeiture, bereavement. ANTONYMS: (n) retrieval, appearance, victory, recovery, gaining, income, gain, accumulation, win, benefit, fortune lost: (adj, v) forlorn, extinct, gone, missing, helpless; (adj) hopeless, bewildered, forgotten, disoriented, broken; (n) loss. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, found, existing, won, saved, aware lots: (adj, n) plenty, heaps; (adj) a lot, galore; (n) many, scores, scads, oodles, much, masses; (adv) a great deal. ANTONYM: (n) few loud: (adj) flashy, garish, gaudy, blatant, brassy, boisterous, high, jazzy, brazen, piercing; (adj, adv) forte. ANTONYMS: (adj) tasteful, gentle, quiet, subtle, subdued, low, muted, weak, tranquil, thin; (adv) softly love: (n) desire, fondness, affection, dear, liking, benevolence, charity, honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v) worship. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike; (n) abhorrence, hatred, aversion, detestation, detachment, indifference; (v) abhor; (adv) roughly loved: (adj) beloved, pet, cherished, precious, liked, adored, respected, treasured, esteemed, valued; (n)

darling. ANTONYM: (adj) hated loving: (adj) fond, devoted, amorous, kind, friendly, ardent, attached, admiring, gentle, fatherly; (adj, v) tender. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, uncaring, malicious, cruel, unloving, rough, paternal, indifferent, distant, disapproving, callous lower: (adj, v) debase, frown, abase, scowl; (adj, n, v) degrade, diminish, humble; (v) dip, drop, cut; (adj, n) inferior. ANTONYMS: (v) raise, improve, glorify, augment, straighten, upgrade, uplift; (adj) higher, senior, over, superior lowest: (adj) least, bottom, smallest, last, minimal, nethermost, under, lowermost, undermost, poorest; (adj, n) minimum lown: (n) loon, vagabond, runnion, outcast, oaf, lout lungs: (v) air pump, air blower, ventilator, punkah; (n) blowpipe, organ lust: (n, v) desire, hunger, itch; (n) craving, greed, libido, lecherousness, cupidity, lewdness; (v) covet, crave lying: (adj) false, deceptive, mendacious, untrue, misleading, fraudulent; (n) lie, falsehood, fabrication, deceit, dishonesty. ANTONYMS: (n) honesty, truthfulness; (adj) truthful macedon: (n) Macedonia, Makedonija madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass, lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, maiden, housemaid, handmaid maiden: (n) maid, girl, demoiselle, damosel, wench, fille, lass, miss; (adj) first, initiatory, unmarried maidenhead: (n) maidenhood, mucosa, virginity, purity, virginal membrane main: (adj) grand, great, leading, head, principal, prominent, basic, capital, central; (adj, n) essential, cardinal. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor, secondary, supplementary, auxiliary, subsidiary, peripheral, dependent, extra, side, trivial, marginal majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, magnificence, stateliness, greatness, king, royalty, highness. ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, simplicity

William Shakespeare making: (n) creation, construction, production, fabrication, manufacture, cartography, devising, fashioning, manufacturing, formation; (v) to make. ANTONYMS: (n) undoing, destruction malign: (v) defame, disparage, asperse, libel, badmouth, vilify; (adj) malevolent, harmful, malefic, injurious, evil. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, compliment; (adj) benign, beneficial, harmless malleable: (adj) flexible, elastic, pliable, soft, supple, pliant, yielding, adaptable, plastic, tensile, tractable. ANTONYMS: (adj) inflexible, stubborn, hard, rigid, firm manage: (n, v) direct, govern, guide; (v) do, administer, cope, accomplish, deal, work, arrange, lead. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, bungle manly: (adj) manlike, masculine, manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv) manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely; (adj, adv) stately. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, unmanly, cowardly; (adv) unmanfully manner: (adj, n) kind; (n) bearing, demeanor, method, form, appearance, carriage, way; (n, v) custom, style, habit marina: (n) dock, harbor, port, anchorage, haven, wharf, waterfront, docking facility, quay, dockage mariner: (n) sailor, gob, seafarer, tar, warrener, bosun, bargee, bargeman, boatswain, lighterman, sea dog mark: (adj, n, v) notice; (n, v) brand, score, heed, label, blemish; (n) sign, impression, character; (v) characterize, distinguish. ANTONYM: (n) enhancement market: (n) fair, emporium, marketplace, bazaar, grocery store; (n, v) shop, trade; (v) demand, sell, commercialize, exchange marks: (v) score; (n) first baron marks of Broughton, footprint, imprints, inscription, path, script, Simon marks, symbols, trace, track married: (adj) wedded, conjugal, matrimonial, connubial, nuptial, united, mixed, connected, marrying, attached, unite. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached, divorced, public marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get married, link, conjoin, wive, splice, tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage. ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate,

split marshal: (v) dispose, rally, mobilize, guide, group, muster, order, collect, organize, arrange; (n) Marshall. ANTONYMS: (v) disturb, demobilize, disband, dismiss, disperse mart: (n) emporium, market, marketplace, bazar, agora, forum, grocery, sale, center, outlet, store marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy, curiosity, phenomenon, amazement, miracle, portent, marl, surprise, admiration; (v) admire. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) nightmare mast: (n) post, foremast, column, spar, spanker-mast, mainmast, jigger, tower, aerial, ship mast, nut master: (n) captain, instructor, lord; (v) control, conquer, command, dominate, defeat; (adj, n) original, head, ace. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, servant, novice, amateur masters: (n) Edgar lee Masters mates: (n) match, couple, mate, pair, Lucifer, friction match, family unit, family, equal, dyad, duo matter: (n) business, substance, issue, material, affair, concern, incident, article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n) import mean: (adj, n) middle, low, contemptible, average, medium, common; (v) design; (n, v) imply, denote; (adj) ignoble, hateful. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, kind, extravagant, charitable, luxurious, rich, expansive, extreme, great; (n) maximum, minimum meanest: (adj) last, least meaning: (n) intent, gist, implication, design, essence, consequence, significance, content, intention, connotation, aim. ANTONYM: (n) triviality means: (n) instrument, agency, income, assets, manner, funds, capital, channel, property, resource, resources. ANTONYM: (n) poverty meant: (adj) destined, implied, sincere, preordained, intentional, predestined; (v) intend, designate measures: (n) proceedings, actions, events, method, preparations, process, provision, way, planning meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core, kernel, heart, substance, marrow, crux, matter, beef meet: (v) find, converge, assemble, gather, fulfill, congregate, answer, cross, confront, intersect; (adv, v)

149 encounter. ANTONYMS: (v) diverge, disperse, separate, part, leave, differ, disband melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess, depression. ANTONYMS: (n) happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery, satisfied melt: (v) dissolve, deliquesce, vanish, coalesce, relent, meld, fade, defrost; (adj, v) run, liquefy; (n, v) thaw. ANTONYMS: (v) freeze, solidify, cool, set mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, harshness, unkindness, severity, mercilessness, ruthlessness, impatience, inhumanity mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare, simple, pure; (n) loch, tarn, boundary, absolute; (n, v) downright; (adv) merely; (adj, v) clear merit: (n, v) deserve; (adj, n) excellence, worth, desert; (n) virtue, credit, significance, value, goodness, quality; (v) rate. ANTONYMS: (n) demerit, disgrace, fault, insignificance, mediocrity, commonness merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful, glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome, lighthearted, festive; (adj, n) convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight message: (n) communication, information, errand, letter, mission, dispatch, statement, word, lesson, significance, note messenger: (n, v) herald; (n) harbinger, runner, emissary, bearer, ambassador, precursor, courier, carrier, apostle, errand midway: (adj) middle, center, intermediate, central, median; (n) tract, middle of the road, intermediary, battle of midway; (adv) in the middle; (prep) between. ANTONYM: (adj) extreme midwife: (n) accoucheur, oculist, howdy, obstetrician, aurist; (v) midwive might: (n) power, energy, ability, influence, strength, puissance, vehemence, intensity; (v) may, can, could. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness,

150 feebleness, meekness mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, insignificant mild: (adj, n) kindly, gracious; (adj) easy, lenient, benign, docile, humble, clement, sweet, balmy, delicate. ANTONYMS: (adj) extreme, pungent, spicy, sharp, severe, scathing, incisive, hot, powerful, great, passionate mind: (n, v) intellect, notice, regard; (v) care, look, attend, beware, keep, listen, look after; (n) disposition. ANTONYMS: (v) forget, neglect, disregard, disobey, Miss, ignore; (n) emotion, inattention; (adj) physical minding: (adj) intent mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n) excavation, pit, fund, land mine, vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my, delve mingle: (v) compound, combine, merge, amalgamate, intermix, mix, commingle, associate, confuse, join, intermingle. ANTONYM: (v) part minstrelsy: (n) orchestra, prowess, troupe, company, glee, art, merriment, lay, joy, ballad, gayety minute: (n, v) note; (adj) little, delicate, microscopic, small, atomic; (n) jiffy, flash, moment, second, memorandum. ANTONYMS: (adj) huge, big, gigantic, significant, cursory, immeasurable, tremendous, important, colossal, giant, large miracle: (adj, n) wonder, prodigy; (n) phenomenon, mystery, wonderwork, surprise, sensation, event, theurgy, astonishment, amazement mirth: (adj, n) merriment, jollity; (n) amusement, happiness, delight, joy, hilarity, cheerfulness, festivity, gladness, exhilaration. ANTONYMS: (n) gloom, sadness, misery misery: (adj, n) grief; (n, v) distress; (n) affliction, agony, anguish, woe, hardship, evil, ill, infelicity, suffering. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, ecstasy, cheerfulness, fun, hopefulness, peace, contentment, pleasure, wealth, sport, cheer misfortune: (n) accident, hardship, misadventure, disaster, calamity, mischance, catastrophe, mishap, bad luck, misery, affliction. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, bonus, opportunity, privilege, success,

Pericles happiness mistress: (n) dame, concubine, madame, inamorata, lady, lover, fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept woman, missis mite: (n, v) bit; (n) atom, jot, hint, pinch, crumb, acarus, dole, grain, acarid, iota moan: (n, v) grumble, gripe, whine, lament, cry, howl; (v) bewail, complain, mourn; (n) complaint, lamentation. ANTONYMS: (v) compliment; (n) praise mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v) ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout; (adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v) mimic, ape, taunt. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, natural; (v) praise, applaud, respect, approve model: (n, v) pattern, copy, fashion, shape; (n) example, image, figure, prototype, dummy; (adj, n) standard; (v) imitate. ANTONYMS: (adj) atypical, unconventional, imperfect, deficient; (n) original modest: (adj) humble, lowly, moderate, gentle, low, meek, chaste, decent, unassuming; (adj, n) bashful, diffident. ANTONYMS: (adj) pretentious, arrogant, spectacular, conceited, showy, proud, pompous, elaborate, grand, conspicuous, ostentatious mole: (n) jetty, freckle, spy, bulwark, nevus, mol, groyne, blemish, birthmark; (adj, v) mound; (v) embankment monarchs: (n) royals, royalty money: (n) currency, capital, kale, funds, means, lucre, assets, legal tender, pelf, cash, dough monster: (n) beast, fiend, devil, freak, brute, demon, ogre, leviathan, behemoth, monstrosity; (adj) huge monstrous: (adj) huge, atrocious, heinous, monster, immense, gigantic, grievous, ugly, flagitious, dreadful; (adj, v) grotesque. ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, minute, beautiful, good, small, lovely, attractive month: (n) calendar month, months, lunation, minute, hour, day, period, quarter, quinquennium, year, moonshine monument: (n) headstone, cenotaph, tombstone, tablet, shrine, slab, gravestone, landmark, statue; (adj, n) column; (n, v) record moon: (adj) lunar; (n) month, moonshine, satellite, moonlight, luck, lunar month, GHURRY, epoch,

orb of night; (v) daydream moral: (n) lesson, meaning; (adj) good, decent, right, honest, virtuous, proper, chaste, upright, righteous. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, unwholesome, unethical, amoral, decadent, wrong, unjust, sinful, irreverent, dishonorable, degenerate morn: (n) dawn, daybreak, forenoon, period, prime, aurora, a, amount of time, break of dawn, break of day, break of the day morrow: (n) morning, future, mean solar day, day morsel: (n, v) bite, mouthful; (n) crumb, chew, particle, fragment, taste, piece, nibble; (adj, v) gobbet, mite mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, deathly, earthly; (n) man, individual, creature, person, human being, body. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) immortal; (adj) eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect, spiritual mortality: (n) fatality, flesh, death rate, death, humanity, mankind, demise, mortality rate, morbidity; (adj) caducity, fugacity mortally: (adv) lethally, deadly, pestilently, perniciously, extremely, humanly, grievously, poisonously, individually, killingly, dangerously. ANTONYM: (adv) mildly mother: (n) mamma, mommy, origin, mama, ma, mammy, mummy; (n, v) father; (v) engender, generate, beget motto: (n) catchword, adage, epigraph, maxim, slogan, device, proverb, saw, saying, shibboleth, aphorism mount: (n, v) rise, climb, frame; (v) board, arise, advance, jump, increase; (n) hill, mountain; (adj, v) ride. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, decrease, wane, dismount; (n) valley, hollow mountain: (n, v) mound; (n) heap, height, peak, mountain range, stack, pile, mass, Ben, volcano, bundle mourn: (v) bewail, grieve, deplore, cry, bemoan, regret, distress, sad, wail, mourning, weep. ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice, celebrate, applaud mouse: (v) sneak, creep, steal, snoop, seek; (n) track, hunt, field mouse, fieldmouse, trace; (adj) small fry mouth: (n) lip, lips, aperture, edge, entrance, snout, entry; (n, v) grimace; (v) articulate, pronounce, speak mouthful: (n) gulp, morsel, swallow,

William Shakespeare gobbet, nip, bit, sip, piece, drink; (adj, n) handful; (adj) thimbleful move: (v) excite, go, affect, carry, touch, instigate, travel; (n, v) act, drive, transfer, maneuver. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, restore, refrain, remain, rest, withdraw, stop, repel, come, leave moved: (adj) affected, excited, touched, disordered, enthused, gone, tense, inspired, stimulated, overcome, interested. ANTONYM: (adj) uninspired mundane: (adj) earthly, terrestrial, worldly, everyday, commonplace, humdrum, ordinary, conventional, telluric, usual, carnal. ANTONYMS: (adj) extraordinary, spiritual, exotic, inspiring murder: (n, v) massacre, carnage, slaughter, homicide, butcher; (v) kill, slay, destroy, execute, dispatch, assassinate murderer: (n) assassin, cutthroat, killer, manslayer, murderess, executioner, thug, liquidator; (v) butcher; (n, v) slayer, terrorist music: (n) melody, chorus, musical, sound, composition, monody, folk music, medicine, euphony, drumming, ballet mutiny: (n, v) insurrection, rebellion; (n) disobedience, uprising, revolution, outbreak, insubordination, defiance, rising; (v) rebel, rise. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, obedience myself: (pron) me, itself, herself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) I, yourselves; (adv) in person, for myself, in my opinion. ANTONYMS: (adv) universally, generally mytilene: (n) Lesbos name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize, list, enumerate, identify, cite, mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n) epithet. ANTONYMS: (n) nobody, indecency named: (adj, v) called; (adj) nominative, nominal, chosen, appointed, nominated, designated, titled, specified; (v) benempt, ycleped names: (n) calumny, defamation, hatchet job narrowly: (adv) closely, barely, hardly, strictly, slenderly, tightly, smally, contractly, slimly, precisely, nearly. ANTONYMS: (adv) broadly, inaccurately nation: (n) state, country, kingdom,

people, community, commonwealth, land, a people, body politic, nationality, tribe natural: (adj) inherent, innate, unaffected, instinctive, artless, congenital, inborn, normal, intrinsic, essential, native. ANTONYMS: (adj) affected, refined, false, cultivated, unnatural, paranormal, supernatural, abnormal, forced, exceptional, strained nature: (n) disposition, essence, quality, creation, breed, temperament, type, attribute; (adj, n) character, class, manner near: (adj, adv, v) close, at hand; (adv, prep) by, around, towards; (adj, v) familiar, adjoining, approximate; (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv) almost; (adj) imminent. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, far, further, actual, exact; (v) leave necessity: (n) demand, need, lack, exigency, essential, compulsion, emergency, distress, must, constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS: (n) inessential, treat, unimportance, luxury need: (adj, n, v) lack, want; (n, v) demand, desire, deficiency, must, destitution; (n) necessity, requirement; (v) require, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) obviate, dislike, have; (n) option, luxury, glut, unimportance, affluence, prosperity needful: (adj) necessary, essential, indispensable, required, needed, mandatory, exigent, needy; (adj, v) requisite; (n) necessity, almighty dollar needle: (v) irritate, goad, sting, rile, gall, aggravate, nag; (n) injection, pointer, awl, plunger needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully, indispensably, by necessity, inescapably, of necessity, ineluctably; (n) must, requirement, necessity; (adj) needed needy: (adj) indigent, poor, impoverished, necessitous, underprivileged, penniless, impecunious, deficient, miserable, deprived, poverty-stricken. ANTONYMS: (adj) rich, affluent, independent, solvent, privileged, satisfied ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not neighbouring: (adj) adjoining, contiguous, vicinal, abutting; (v) adjoin neither: (conj) either, no-one, not either, nor, nother

151 neptune: (n) Nereid, triton, Poseidon, naiad, solar system nestor: (n) old parr, senator, Solomon, shining light, preadamite, oracle, monitor, Magnus Apollo, solon, magi, luminary never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always, not ever, by no means, at all times, not at all, not, NE. ANTONYMS: (adv) always, forever next: (adj) nearest, adjacent, contiguous, following, future, coming, ensuing, after; (adv, conj) then, afterward; (adj, v) subsequent. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) previous, previously, preceding; (adj) outgoing, distant; (adv) before nicely: (adv) daintily, pleasantly, finely, deliciously, kindly, delicately, correctly, exactly, pleasingly, elegantly, skillfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) badly, unattractively, inelegantly, cruelly niece: (n) grandniece, aunt, brother's daughter, uncle, kinswoman night: (n) dark, dusk, darkness, gloaming, twilight, nighttime, Nox, eventide, period; (adj) nocturnal, gloomy. ANTONYMS: (n) day, light, sunrise nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile, brisk, spry, alert, expeditious, energetic, clever, lithe; (adj, v) light. ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy, stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit nine: (n) niner, club, ball club, baseball club, ennead, Nina from Carolina, three times three, ten, nightspot, clubhouse, queen noble: (adj, n) grand, glorious, patrician; (adj) imposing, impressive, elevated, majestic, generous, high; (adj, v) dignified, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) shameful, humble, dishonorable, lowly, lowborn, disgraceful, unimpressive, ignoble, modest, petty; (n) lady nobleman: (n) patrician, aristocrat, lord, peer, marquis, nobility, grandee, baron, duke, armiger, burgrave nobleness: (n) dignity, generosity, magnanimity, nobility, greatness, grandeur, stateliness, civil honors, goodness, glory, glorify nobles: (n) landed gentry, upper class nobly: (adv) generously, magnificently, grandly, greatly, splendidly, honorably, heroically, aristocratically, bravely, magnanimously, courageously.

152 ANTONYMS: (adv) immorally, poorly, timidly nobody: (n) cipher, naught, zero, nil, nothing, nonentity, cypher, zip, whippersnapper, none; (n, pron) no one. ANTONYMS: (n) celebrity, notable, somebody; (pron) everyone, anyone, everybody none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever north: (adv) northwards, northerly, northward, in the north; (n) n, union, compass north, due north, magnetic north, norther; (adj) northbound nostril: (n) flue, chimney, funnel, weasand, nozzle, port, throat, trachea, naris, anterior naris, nare note: (n, v) comment, mind, remark, mention, heed, mark, look, report; (n) indication, annotation; (v) detect. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) disgrace, invoice nothing: (adv, n) naught; (adj, n) nil, null; (n) nobody, cipher, nihil, nonentity, trifle, nix, aught, cypher. ANTONYMS: (pron) anything, everything, some; (n) all nought: (adj, n) nil, naught, zero; (n) cipher, cypher, nobody, aught, nix, null, nada; (adj) no nourishment: (n) food, alimentation, meal, meat, diet, feeding, nutrition, repast, sustenance, edible, fuel nousle: (v) nousel number: (n, v) amount, figure; (v) calculate, total, aggregate, enumerate, come; (n) score, act, volume, issue nuptials: (n) wedding, matrimony, bridal, wedding ceremony, marriage ceremony, spousal, wedding party, ceremonial, ceremony, espousal, hymeneals. ANTONYM: (n) divorce nurse: (n, v) nourish, nurture; (v) look after, entertain, attend, cherish, lactate, harbor, foster, cultivate, cradle nursed: (adj) care, suckled nursing: (n) attention, tending, care, breast feeding, treatment, nurture, suckling, nurse, feeding, treat, rearing oath: (n) expletive, malediction, imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, swearing, pledge, assurance, asseveration; (v) swear obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, good, conformable, tame, acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, amenable, subservient.

Pericles ANTONYMS: (adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious, crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, resistant obey: (v) comply, listen, keep, fulfill, hear, conform, abide by, serve, comply with; (n, v) mind, heed. ANTONYMS: (v) disobey, defy, break, transgress, infringe, challenge, deny objects: (n) things, stuff, matter, material, substance observed: (adj) ascertained, empirical, discovered, viewed, experimental, experiential, determined, visual, disclosed obtain: (v) acquire, have, get, earn, achieve, attain, accomplish, derive, effect, make, collect. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, relinquish, sell, dispatch, give odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious; (adj) detestable, hideous, nasty, execrable, disgusting, abhorrent, abominable, heinous, forbidding. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant, delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice odour: (n) flavour, smell, odor, aroma, scent, bouquet, savour, nose, flavor, smack, redolence o'er: (adv) on, upon, across offence: (n) insult, injury, guilt, error, delinquency, fault, misdeed, infraction, infringement, attack, offense offend: (v) irritate, affront, insult, contravene, injure, disgust, infringe, displease, abuse, wound, anger. ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight, praise, attract offended: (adj) angry, affronted, aggrieved, pained, wronged, annoyed, insulted, shocked, vexed, resentful, injured. ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, proud, unconcerned offer: (v) give, bestow, put, tender, extend, impart, introduce, advance, propose; (n) proposal, proposition. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold, take offered: (adj) presented, accessible, existing, obtainable, available, ready, on hand, to be had, unsolicited office: (n) function, position, agency, commission, appointment, division, place, bureau, post, job; (n, v) duty officer: (n) police officer, administrator, constable, commander, military officer, bureaucrat, official, officeholder, executive, agent, employee.

ANTONYM: (n) underling offices: (n) kitchen, pantry, scullery omitted: (adj) absent, forgotten, misplaced, wanting, not there, away, gone astray, lost, mislaid, gone once: (adv, n) formerly; (adv) before, ever, previously, one time, at one time, already, erst; (adj, adv) erstwhile; (adj) former; (n) whilom. ANTONYM: (adv) future open: (adj, n) frank, candid; (adj, n, v) clear; (adj) obvious, exposed, artless, free, honest, guileless, forthright, naked. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) shut; (v) close, end; (adj) devious, secretive, concealed, furtive, restricted, limited, reserved, secret opinion: (adj, n, v) judgment, feeling, notion; (n) idea, belief, conjecture, advice, guess, impression, view; (n, v) meaning opposing: (adj) conflicting, antagonistic, opponent, contrary, adverse, hostile, antithetical, anti, contradictory, rival; (prep) against. ANTONYMS: (adj) compatible, consistent, allied, accepting oppression: (n, v) hardship, grievance; (n) injustice, despotism, weight, stress, doldrums; (adj, n) abuse, tyranny, dictatorship, autocracy. ANTONYMS: (n) democracy, ease, freedom, liberty order: (n, v) command, direct, decree, dictate, sort, rank, array, commission, charge; (n) instruction, edict. ANTONYMS: (n, v) request; (n) mayhem, confusion, chaos, mess, anarchy, disorderliness, disarray; (v) disturb, deregulate, supply others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave, LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission otherwise: (adv) besides, differently, or else, yet, alias, nevertheless, on the other hand, in addition; (adj, adv) other; (n) or; (adj) different ourselves: (pron) myself, herself, itself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) me, yourselves, usself outlive: (v) survive, live, endure, overlive, live through, make it, overbide, overcome, remain, supervive, subsist outside: (adv) outdoors, alfresco, out of doors; (n, prep) exterior; (adj, prep) external; (adj) outdoor, foreign, outer, extraneous, remote, outward. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n, prep) inside; (adj) indoor, internal, likely, strong; (prep) in, within; (adv) indoors; (adj, n) interior

William Shakespeare outward: (adj) external, apparent, extrinsic, outer, superficial, surface, outside, ostensible, foreign, outdoor; (adv) out. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) inward; (adj) inner, internal, deep overboard: (adj) exorbitant, rabid overcome: (v) crush, subdue, beat, vanquish, overpower, master, defeat, hurdle, get over, overwhelm; (adj) beaten. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, comfort, protect, resist, surrender, capitulate; (adj) unimpressed overflow: (n, v) flood, deluge; (n) inundation, excess, flooding, torrent, outpouring; (v) inundate, flow, drown, submerge. ANTONYMS: (n) lack, drought overwhelm: (v) overpower, defeat, inundate, flood, overthrow, drown, deluge, crush, engulf, astound, overturn. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, amplify, capitulate, incite, install, lose, protect, submit pace: (n, v) walk, gait, rate, march, stride, footstep; (n) speed, tempo, rapidity, tread, celerity pageantry: (n) ostentation, grandeur, glitter, pomp, display, glory, magnificence, spectacle, show, splendor, ceremony. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, understatement paid: (adj, v) compensated; (adj) salaried, paying, nonrecreational, profitable, remunerated, remunerative, mercenary, settled, prepaid, apaid. ANTONYMS: (adj) owing, due, unprofitable; (adv) voluntary pain: (n, v) hurt, afflict, ache, bother, torment, trouble, grieve, anguish; (n) ill, agony, nuisance. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, cheer; (n) joy, peace, content, balm, ecstasy painful: (adj) hard, difficult, sharp, harrowing, grievous, afflictive, bad, irritating; (adj, v) distressing, harsh, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) content, heartwarming, soothing, comfortable, bearable, agreeable, effortless, dull, slight, wonderful, happy pains: (n) nisus, labor, trouble, effort, exertion, labour, pain, care, struggle, attempt, strain pair: (n, v) match; (adj, n) brace; (n) duet, duo, dyad; (v) join, mate, link, copulate, equate, marry palace: (n) castle, mansion, hall, alcazar, chateau, palazzo, house, palaces, regime, fortress, serai pale: (adj) faint, wan, dull, weak,

light, bloodless, pallid; (adj, v) dim; (n) boundary, confine; (v) blanch. ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, rosy, brown, well, glowing, vivid, healthy, clear, colorful; (v) redden, darken pandar: (n) panderer, fancy man, wrongdoer, procurer, whoremaster, offender, pimp, Ponce, procuress, whoremonger paragon: (n) exemplar, ideal, model, perfection, paradigm, pattern, jimdandy, idol; (adj, n) beau ideal; (adj) phenix, pink pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive, acquit, spare; (n) amnesty, forgiveness, grace; (adj, v) justify, exonerate, exculpate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) blame; (v) punish, castigate, condemn, convict; (n) intolerance parent: (n, v) father; (n) mother, begetter, ancestor, origin, genitor, source; (v) foster, rear, nurture, bring up parentage: (n) family, extraction, origin, descent, ancestry, lineage, stock, birth, pedigree, kinship, bloodline parish: (n) community, congregation, county, region, province, township, borough, church, grazing land, area, arrondissement part: (adj, n) constituent; (n) piece, article, section; (v) break, disjoin, divide, divorce; (n, v) branch, division, character. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite, meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly parted: (adj) divided, separate, distributed, separated, divisible, disunited, compounder, compound, dividable parting: (n) adieu, division, leave, departure, disunion, goodbye, leaving, segregation, dying, rupture; (adj) valedictory. ANTONYMS: (n) joining, meeting, connection, Reunion parts: (n) faculty, nous, quick parts, sagacity, wit, surroundings; (adj) ingenuity, cleverness, capacity, turn, talents pass: (adj, n, v) run; (v) flow, give, deliver, lead, happen, overtake, proceed; (adj, v) move; (n, v) offer, live. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, make, take, veto; (n) failing, rejection, exclusion passion: (n) affection, fire, fervor, love, feeling, anger, enthusiasm, heat, craving, desire; (n, v) ardor. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, hate,

153 serenity, meekness, hatred, doubt, dislike, calmness, moderation passport: (n) permit, instrument, protection, identification, warrant, safeguard, method, means, license, device, key past: (n) history, yesterday; (adj, adv, prep) beyond; (adj) former, bygone, old, prior, over, gone by; (adv) before; (adv, pref) along. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) future, present; (prep) within; (adj) current, contemporary, modern, upcoming, following, subsequent, later; (n) prospect patience: (n) endurance, fortitude, longanimity, equanimity, tolerance, resignation, restraint, composure, sufferance; (n, v) moderation, calmness. ANTONYMS: (n) impatience, eagerness, intolerance, annoyance patroness: (n) supporter, sponsor, benefactress, support, donor, fairy godmother pause: (n, v) halt, interruption, adjournment, delay, respite, stop; (adj, n, v) rest; (n) intermission, gap; (adj, v) discontinue; (v) hesitate. ANTONYMS: (n) decisiveness, continuation, start; (v) proceed pavilion: (n) marquee, kiosk, tent, porch, pergola, gazebo, hall, canopy, booth, place, rus in urbe peace: (adj, n) calm, quiet; (n) harmony, hush, repose, ease, amity, agreement, rest, pacification, order. ANTONYMS: (n) noise, chaos, conflict, uproar, commotion, agitation, war, distress, suffering, disruption, turbulence peaceable: (adj) gentle, calm, pacific, amicable, quiet, friendly, inoffensive, moderate, meek, serene; (adj, v) peaceful. ANTONYMS: (adj) argumentative, belligerent, intemperate, quarrelsome, crooked, disruptive, harsh, disordered peaceful: (adj) peaceable, quiet, gentle, even, silent, meek, peace, staid, placid, tranquil, imperturbable. ANTONYMS: (adj) aggressive, tense, noisy, turbulent, disturbed, hostile, disruptive, bothered, warlike, unpeaceful, compulsory peerless: (adj) matchless, nonpareil, unique, unmatched, unrivaled, one and only, inimitable, supreme, superlative, unequaled, unmatchable. ANTONYM: (adj) vulnerable

154 peevish: (adj) fretful, fractious, morose, testy, irascible, moody, captious, petulant, cross, cantankerous, touchy perceive: (v) comprehend, apprehend, discover, see, grasp, find, know, observe, sense, appreciate; (adj, v) discern. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, observe, ignore perceived: (adj) sensed, apparent, supposed, professed, ostensible peremptory: (adj) imperious, commanding, dictatorial, overbearing, decisive, magisterial; (adj, v) authoritative, dogmatic, flat, absolute; (v) decided. ANTONYM: (adj) polite perfect: (adj, n, v) consummate, complete; (adj, n) absolute, full, entire; (adj) exact, utter, thorough, faultless, integral, exquisite. ANTONYMS: (adj) flawed, faulty, wrong, inferior, misshapen, incorrect, defective, used, everyday, unhappy, partial perform: (v) execute, fulfill, accomplish, do, achieve, complete, carry out, behave, make, play, appear. ANTONYMS: (v) omit, rehearse, malfunction, stop perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass, ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) survive, live, appear personal: (adj) own, particular, human, intimate, peculiar, private, direct, proper, subjective, physical; (n) person. ANTONYMS: (adj) public, general, detached, collective, common, orthodox, formal, impersonal, outermost, external, typical persons: (n) folk, public, society, world peruse: (v) examine, look through, inspect, study, leaf, flip, flick, learn, review, to read, browse. ANTONYM: (v) skim petty: (adj) insignificant, trivial, little, frivolous, paltry, puny, negligible, light, mean, minute, exiguous. ANTONYMS: (adj) important, serious, generous, profound, significant, expansive, crucial, considerable, broadminded, enormous philemon: (n) epistle of Paul the apostle to Philemon physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure,

Pericles doctor, remedy; (v) heal physician: (n) doctor, medico, doc, medic, quack, surgeon, leech, houseman, MD, allergist, intern pick: (n) alternative, best, option, selection, choice; (adj, n) cream, elite; (adj, v) select; (v) opt, harvest, gather. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, refuse picture: (v) describe, draw, imagine, depict; (n, v) photograph, paint, fancy; (n) effigy, drawing, likeness, depiction piece: (n) fragment, division, part, article, lump, hunk, composition, component, opus; (n, v) patch, portion. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, chunk; (v) disassemble pieces: (n) debris, trash pierced: (adj) punctured, perforate, penetrated, cut, cleft pillow: (v) rest, breathe, lie, not move; (adj) wadding; (n) throw pillow, Wanger, bed pillow, feather bed, long pillow, padding pilot: (n, v) guide, lead; (n) leader, aviator; (v) manage, direct, director, conduct, fly, navigate; (adj) experimental pine: (v) languish, long, ache, droop, flag, crave, fade; (n) fir; (n, v) yearn, sink; (adj) peak pious: (adj, n, v) devout; (adj, n) godly; (adj) religious, holy, saintly, devotional, pure, hypocritical, devoted, sanctimonious; (adj, v) earnest. ANTONYMS: (adj) impious, sinful, profane, blasphemous, irreligious, uncommitted, secular, irreverent pirate: (n) buccaneer, corsair, bandit, pillager, freebooter, sea robber, robber, sea rover; (n, v) plagiarist; (v) hijack, infringe pitiful: (adj, n) abject; (adj) pathetic, lamentable, piteous, contemptible, miserable, distressing, mean, wretched, poor, sad. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, heartwarming, admirable, cheerful, fine, happy, impressive pitifully: (adv) sadly, piteously, wretchedly, sorrily, touchingly, distressingly, poorly, meanly, movingly, ruefully, woefully. ANTONYMS: (adv) cheerfully, happily pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n) mercy, commiseration, condolence, sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v) sympathize, compassionate, feel sorry for. ANTONYMS: (n) blame,

cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy place: (n, v) post, order; (v) fix, lay, arrange, locate, install; (adj, n, v) rank, station; (n) domicile, office. ANTONYMS: (v) remove, divest, lift, dismantle placed: (adj) situated, laid, set, positioned, arranged, fixed, sited, collocate, determined, dictated, hardened plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict, hassle, annoy, badger, pester, disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj, n, v) bother. ANTONYM: (v) comfort plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, intelligible, apparent, manifest, obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate, unclear, multicolored, mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned plants: (n) flora, vegetation, trees, industrial equipment, afforestation, animals, birds, flora and fauna, foliage, natural world, plantation platform: (n) dais, stand, stage, rostrum, quay, pulpit, plan, landing, ambo; (adj, n) floor; (n, v) program play: (n, v) act, frolic, pastime, game, sport, exercise, joke, bet, wager; (v) enact; (adj, v) perform. ANTONYMS: (n) tightness; (v) avoid, leave, real please: (v) delight, charm, amuse, entertain, oblige, enchant, enrapture; (adj, v) gratify, enjoy, like; (adj) glad. ANTONYMS: (v) displease, annoy, irritate, anger, distress, sicken, disappoint, dissatisfy, sadden, repel, appall pleased: (adj) contented, glad, delighted, content, joyful, thankful, gratified, appreciative, overjoyed, cheerful; (adj, v) elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, annoyed, angry, worried, ashamed, disappointed, frustrated, sad, unsatisfied, ungrateful, uncomplimentary pleasing: (adj, n) acceptable; (adj) amiable, lovable, amusing, attractive, gratifying, lovely, pleasant, charming, delightful, inviting. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, unwelcome, infuriating, disappointing, straight, hurtful, maddening, displeasing, discordant, harsh, frustrating pleasure: (n) fun, enjoyment, delectation, joy, comfort, happiness,

William Shakespeare mirth, inclination; (n, v) contentment, content; (adj, n, v) gratification. ANTONYMS: (n) irritation, nuisance, boredom, ache, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, pain, sadness, worry, anguish pleasures: (n) pleasure pledge: (n, v) bond, gage, wager, engage, promise, plight, guarantee, bet, contract; (n) assurance; (v) covenant. ANTONYM: (v) redeem plenty: (adj, n) affluence, opulence; (n) many, much, plenteousness, copiousness, plenitude, exuberance, galore; (adj, adv) enough; (adj) adequate. ANTONYMS: (adj) insufficient, inadequate; (n) scarcity, insufficiency; (adv) insufficiently ploughed: (v) plucked. ANTONYM: (adj) unplowed plucked: (v) ploughed; (adj) pulled, unfeathered, featherless, moulting, pilled point: (n, v) grade, head, nib, level, aim, degree; (n) peak, article, dot; (adj, n) edge; (v) direct. ANTONYM: (n) middle pointed: (adj) keen, poignant, acute, piquant, cutting, marked, pithy, biting, short, sharp, barbed. ANTONYMS: (adj) rounded, blunt, unpointed, pointless, mild, smooth, dull points: (n) turnout, handicap, interest, percentage, brownie points, commendation, credit, eight points, share, terms poison: (adj, v) contaminate, taint; (n, v) envenom, drug, empoison; (adj) toxic, poisonous; (v) defile, intoxicate; (n) bane, venom. ANTONYMS: (n) cure; (v) clean pompous: (adj) grand, arrogant, ostentatious, affected, pretentious, overblown, showy, inflated, majestic, lordly; (adj, prep) bloated. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, straightforward, unceremonious, quiet, unassuming, natural, deferential, relaxed, meek pooped: (adj) tired, weary, drained, fatigued, bushed, prostrate, worn out, worn, done in, beat, shattered. ANTONYM: (adj) refreshed poor: (adj) bad, miserable, piteous, destitute, pitiful, insufficient, penniless, pathetic; (adj, v) meager; (adj, n) paltry, mean. ANTONYMS: (adj) wealthy, excellent, privileged, admirable, good, adequate, satisfactory, outstanding, favorable, dignified, comfortable

populous: (adj) multitudinous, crowded, densely populated, multiple, thick, inhabited, numerous, manifold, multiplied; (adj, v) teeming; (v) closely packed. ANTONYM: (adj) uninhabited portage: (n, v) carry; (n) transportation, shipping, cartage, delivery, transference, haulage, porterage, carting, cart track; (adj) moving portly: (adj) plump, stout, corpulent, heavy, obese, chubby, fleshy, overweight; (adj, adv) burly, stately; (adv) plumply. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) thin, slim; (adj) skinny possibly: (adv) probably, perhaps, peradventure, likely, perchance, may, might, or, mayhap, conceivably, potentially. ANTONYMS: (adv) impossibly, definitely, certainly, indeed, implausibly potent: (adj) forcible, influential, forceful, cogent, hard, mighty, persuasive, strong, efficacious; (adj, n) effective, effectual. ANTONYMS: (adj) impotent, ineffective, insignificant potion: (n) drink, beverage, medicine, draft, elixir, dose, dram, philter; (n, v) swill, essence; (v) drench pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter, stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem, infuse; (n, v) overflow. ANTONYMS: (v) drizzle, trickle poverty: (n, v) lack, destitution, penury, need, indigence, want; (adj, n) distress; (n) pauperism, impoverishment, squalor, deprivation. ANTONYMS: (n) wealth, riches, affluence, smartness, luxury, prosperity, fertility, surplus power: (n, v) might, ability, influence, dominion, faculty; (n) potency, energy, control, authority, domination, strength. ANTONYMS: (n) powerlessness, helplessness, weakness, inability, subjugation, moderation, calmness, meekness, inferiority, feebleness, ease powers: (n) authority, capacity, strength, administration practice: (n, v) exercise, drill, discipline, use; (n) fashion, convention, habitude, habit, experience, form, observance. ANTONYMS: (n) theory, innovation; (v) perform practise: (v) execute, practice, perform, exercise, drill, do, rehearse, learn, take, work out, read

155 practised: (adj) practiced, expert, adept, good, trained, proficient, seasoned, skilful, skilled, skillful, versed praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, compliment, honor, glory, acclaim; (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, disparagement; (v) reprimand, disparage, reproach, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, denigrate, sully praised: (adj) bepuffed, popular, renowned pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, invite, plead, beseech, appeal, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject prefer: (v) pick, elevate, like, elect, opt, advance, favor, want, select, promote, favour. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, refuse pregnant: (adj, v) significant; (adj) meaningful, fraught, gravid, expectant, enceinte, heavy, big, meaning; (v) impregnate, conceive. ANTONYM: (adj) nonpregnant prepare: (n, v) arrange, form, plan, make; (v) dress, set, lay, devise, groom, equip; (adj, v) coach. ANTONYM: (v) perform prepared: (adj) willing, disposed, fitted, fain, finished, ready, ripe, primed, competent, inclined, efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj) spontaneous, unarmed, reluctant, unwilling presence: (n) front, manner, mien, bearing, carriage, figure, air, comportment, demeanor, company; (n, v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n) absence, nonattendance present: (adj, n, v) gift, grant; (n, v) donation, display; (adj, v) confer, bestow; (v) introduce, give, prefer, offer, perform. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, withhold, consume, take; (adj) missing, lost, dated, historical; (adj, n) past, future; (n) history presently: (adv) instantly, directly, currently, before long, shortly, soon, now, at present, readily, just, actually. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, now, formerly preserve: (v) maintain, keep, save, guard, hold, defend, uphold, keep up; (n) jam, jelly, conserves. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, discontinue, damage, lose, attack, endanger, use, end preserved: (adj) kept, conserved, whole, pickled, condite, safe.

156 ANTONYM: (adj) fresh pretence: (n) deceit, pretext, dissimulation, pretense, affectation, falsehood, deception, hypocrisy, bluff, appearance, pretension pretty: (adj) fair, graceful, lovely, handsome, attractive, charming, good-looking, picturesque, dainty; (n) nice; (adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adj) plain, unattractive, modern, inelegant; (adv) extremely prevent: (n, v) hinder, bar; (v) anticipate, block, forbid, avert, avoid, preclude, arrest, hamper, obviate. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, permit, promote, advance, attract, cause, let, drive, help, support, include prevented: (adj) disallowed, barred, banned. ANTONYM: (adj) legitimate price: (v) appraise, assess; (adj, n) worth, merit; (n) cost, charge, expense, figure, fee; (n, v) estimate, amount pride: (n) arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, lordliness, assumption, insolence, disdain, hauteur; (n, v) boast; (v) plume. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace, shame, baseness priestess: (n) priest priestly: (adj) ministerial, hieratic, sacerdotal, priestlike, hieratical, religious, theocratic, ecclesiastical; (adv) divinely, hieratically, theocratically. ANTONYM: (adj) secular prime: (adj, n) chief, best, paramount, essential; (adj) first, head, fundamental, primary, early; (n) flower; (v) ground. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) secondary, inferior; (adj) new, marginal; (n) nadir prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign, duke, king, chief, maharaja, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke princely: (adj, v) August, grand, great, lordly, dignified, stately; (adj) generous, munificent, majestic, magnificent, gorgeous. ANTONYM: (adj) ungenerous princess: (n) queen, duchess, begum, czarina, maharani, monarch, archduchess, lady, patrician, maharanee, mopsey principal: (adj, n) chief, master, cardinal, primary, leading, capital, prime, main; (adj) grand; (n) manager, leader. ANTONYMS: (adj) secondary, subordinate, peripheral,

Pericles trivial, marginal, side prithee: (v) pray; (int) prythee private: (adj) clandestine, personal, secret, individual, hidden, inner, exclusive, intimate, esoteric; (adj, v) covert, close. ANTONYMS: (adj) official, nationalized, community, communal, shared, civic, state, open, external, commercial, collective prize: (v) appreciate, esteem, value, cherish, admire; (n) plunder, award, booty, premium; (n, v) treasure, honor. ANTONYMS: (v) disrespect, scorn, hate; (n) dud proceed: (v) move, advance, originate, ensue, flow, issue, arise, emanate; (adj, v) pass, run, extend. ANTONYMS: (v) discontinue, recede, regress, return, retreat proclaim: (v) declare, assert, advertise, broadcast, promulgate, enunciate, herald, decree, divulge, notify, annunciate proclamation: (n) announcement, decree, edict, annunciation, notice, statement, promulgation, report, publication, manifesto, propagation profession: (n) employment, declaration, occupation, affirmation, calling, career, vocation, job, position, assertion, assurance. ANTONYM: (n) denial proffer: (n, v) bid; (v) give, present, advance, extend, propose, provide, submit; (n) overture, proposition, suggestion. ANTONYM: (v) refuse profit: (n, v) gain, produce, net, increase, help; (adj, n, v) benefit, advantage; (n) account, earnings, lucre; (adj, n) good. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, detriment, insignificance promised: (adj) pledged, affianced, betrothed, busy, devoted, employed, greatly interested, intended, involved; (v) benempt, named prop: (n, v) support, buttress, brace, shore, rest; (n) post, fulcrum, property, mainstay; (v) bolster, hold proportion: (n) balance, degree, ratio, portion, slice, share, dimension, equilibrium, equipoise, fraction; (n, v) scale. ANTONYMS: (n) disproportion, asymmetry prorogue: (v) adjourn, defer, delay, shelve, retire, withdraw, suspend, prolong, hold over, hold up, waive prosper: (v) advance, flower, thrive, grow, bloom, succeed, boom, get ahead, get on; (adj) luxuriate; (n, v) fare. ANTONYMS: (v) deteriorate, collapse, decrease, dwindle, decline prosperous: (adj, n) lucky,

auspicious, fortunate; (adj) flourishing, favorable, opulent, easy, comfortable, affluent, advantageous, successful. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressed, unsuccessful, failing, underprivileged, impoverished prostitute: (n) courtesan, harlot, bawd, hooker, fancy woman, cocotte, whore, tart; (adj, v) pervert; (v) profane, abuse protect: (v) keep, cover, preserve, safeguard, conserve, vindicate, screen, save; (n, v) guard, hide, ward. ANTONYMS: (v) expose, neglect, risk, intimidate, destroy, harm, endanger, reveal protector: (n) guard, guardian, patron, champion, custodian, conservator, escort, hero, paladin, supporter, benefactor protest: (n) demonstration, objection, complaint, challenge, question; (v) assert, object, complain, remonstrate, demur; (n, v) moan. ANTONYMS: (n, v) support, praise; (n) approval, acceptance; (v) approve, agree proud: (adj) lofty, disdainful, haughty, exalted, egotistical, gallant, pompous, lordly, majestic, overbearing; (adj, v) dignified. ANTONYMS: (adj) humble, modest, ashamed, embarrassed, sorrowful, disappointed, miserable prove: (v) attest, manifest, evidence, establish, show, examine, verify, essay, check, corroborate; (adj, v) confirm. ANTONYMS: (v) refute, undermine provide: (v) contribute, furnish, offer, cater, supply, afford, equip, administer, accommodate, allow, fit. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold, divest, neglect, take, buy province: (n, v) district, department; (n) field, county, land, region, domain, colony, duty, sphere, line provision: (n, v) preparation, feed, stock; (n) condition, proviso, agreement, clause, article, board, store; (v) cater public: (n) folk, people, populace; (adj) national, overt, civic, communal, popular; (adj, v) general, open; (adj, n) community. ANTONYMS: (adj) private, confidential, personal, individual, privileged, restricted, unknown, home, secret pulse: (n, v) throb; (n) pulsation, impulse, heartbeat, legume, rhythm, pounding, cadence; (v) pulsate,

William Shakespeare palpitate, pound punish: (v) amerce, discipline, castigate, chasten, chastise, penalize, strike, avenge, pay, beat, execute. ANTONYMS: (v) excuse, exonerate, pardon, reward, commend purchase: (v) obtain, get, procure, bribe; (n) acquisition, leverage, bargain, acquirement, grip, buying; (n, v) contract. ANTONYMS: (v) sell, lose; (n) loss, sale pure: (adj) absolute, natural, faultless, innocent, immaculate, perfect, good, clean; (adj, n) chaste, genuine; (adj, v) mere. ANTONYMS: (adj) contaminated, dishonored, diluted, tainted, wicked, practical, polluted, flawed, marred, unsaturated, unchaste purge: (v) clean, expurgate, eradicate, clear, scour, remove, purify, make clean, liquidate; (n) catharsis, purification. ANTONYMS: (n, v) binge; (v) rehabilitate, castigate puritan: (adj) blue, puritanic, puritanical, Methodist, formalist, religionist; (n) precisian, devotee, sanyasi, yogi; (v) coquette purple: (adj) violet, lilac, imperial, regal, royal; (adj, n) empurpled; (v) empurple; (n) magenta, purpleness, ermine, pall purpose: (n, v) plan, intention, design, project, resolve, purport, end, object; (n) mind, effect, motive. ANTONYM: (n) weakness purse: (n) bag, pouch, money, handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook, pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease push: (n, v) press, thrust, impel, jolt, force, jab, nudge, crowd, prod, poke; (v) jostle. ANTONYMS: (v) drag, haul, unpack, inhibit, leave, oppose, prevent, restrain, understate, calm; (n) apathy puts: (n) stocks, securities, preferred stock, common stock, bonds quaintly: (adv) unusually, oddly, curiously, weirdly, singularly, peculiarly, queerly, strangely, outlandishly, charmingly, pleasingly qualities: (n) character, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, quality, role, self, part, traits, individuality queen: (n) king, lady, sovereign, monarch, dame, pansy, queer, faggot, princess, fairy, czarina quench: (adj, v) extinguish, allay, slake; (v) appease, quash, put out, destroy, assuage, annihilate, calm, chill. ANTONYMS: (v) stimulate, light

quenched: (adj) extinct, quelled, out, slaked, squelched, dead, kayoed, permanently inactive, prohibited, proscribed, put out quest: (n) pursuit, investigation, exploration, chase, research, inquest; (n, v) probe, hunt, inquiry, examination; (v) call for question: (n, v) query, distrust, interrogate, matter, challenge, demand; (n) inquiry; (v) investigate, inquire, contest, examine. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, resolution; (n, v) trust; (v) praise, reply, believe, accept questionless: (adj) incontrovertible, unquestionable, certain, indubitable; (adv) certainly quick: (adj) bright, hasty, agile, nimble, intelligent, clever, speedy, active, immediate, instant; (adj, v) prompt. ANTONYMS: (adj) leisurely, dull, dim, thick, unintelligent, thorough, inept, unobservant, lengthy, long, permanent quickly: (adv) promptly, rapidly, expeditiously, readily, speedily, swiftly, suddenly, hastily; (adj, adv) immediately, shortly; (adv, n) instantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, gradually, permanently, later, eventually, thoroughly quiet: (adj, adv, v) still; (adj, n, v) lull, hush, pacify, compose, appease, assuage; (adj, v) moderate, cool; (adj, adv) gentle, motionless. ANTONYMS: (adj) noisy, talkative, vociferous, active, oratorical, fierce, vocal, unquiet, busy, disordered; (n) noise quietly: (adv) stilly, calmly, peacefully, silently, softly, smoothly, tranquilly, serenely, restfully, lully, moderately. ANTONYMS: (adv) loudly, harshly, raucously, vociferously, anxiously, energetically, manically, unquietly, clearly, heavily, brashly quit: (adj, n, v) leave; (v) go, drop, break, cease, give up, depart, end, discontinue; (adj, v) discharge; (n, v) part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy, enter, maintain, start, come, arrive quod: (n) bilboes, Bastille, prison, stocks rage: (adj, n, v) fume, bluster; (adj, n) wrath, indignation, frenzy, mania; (n) passion, anger, craze, exasperation; (n, v) storm. ANTONYMS: (n) gentleness, composure, calm, equanimity,

157 pleasure, serenity raging: (adj) hot, angry, fierce, irate, wild, infuriated, enraged, vehement, heated; (adj, n) mad, rabid. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, mild, contained rain: (n, v) stream, hail; (n) precipitation, wet, pelting, flow, downpour, rainwater; (v) precipitate, shower, rain down. ANTONYM: (v) drizzle rapture: (n) joy, bliss, delight, happiness, exaltation, elation, exultation, enchantment; (adj, n) enthusiasm; (n, v) transport; (adj, n, v) passion. ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, boredom, misery, gloom, agony, hell, despair rare: (adj) uncommon, thin, unusual, seldom, scarce, precious, exceptional, infrequent, few, choice, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) common, frequent, usual, plentiful, commonplace, recurrent rarely: (adv) unusually, infrequently, scarcely, seldom, singularly, exceptionally, specially, sparsely, hardly, sporadically; (adj) rare. ANTONYMS: (adv) frequently, usually, often, commonly rather: (adv) a little, enough, fairly, pretty, moderately, considerably, very, relatively, kind of, instead, kinda. ANTONYMS: (adv) extremely, absolutely; (adj) complete ravish: (v) charm, enrapture, rape, violate, delight, captivate, defile, deflower, force, transport, enchant. ANTONYM: (v) disenchant ravished: (adj) ecstatic, overjoyed, rapturous, defiled razed: (adj) dismantled, destroyed razor: (adj, n) straight razor; (adj) knife, cutlery, edge tool, penknife; (n) electric razor, shaver, safety razor, electric shaver, rasour; (v) epilate reach: (n, v) fetch, stretch; (adj, v) overtake, pass, extend; (v) obtain, achieve, make, attain, get; (n) compass. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, differ, fail reaching: (n) reach, arrival, coming, accomplishment, outreach, advent, achievement, grasp, arriver, getting; (adj) suspicious read: (v) say, decipher, understand, learn, construe, perceive, gather, indicate, demonstrate, translate, comprehend. ANTONYM: (v) write reading: (n, v) read; (n) recital, learning, interpretation, lection,

158 construction, version, study, perusal, erudition, exegesis ready: (v) prepare, fix; (adj, v) fit, disposed, willing; (adj) quick, prompt, nimble, apt; (adj, n) available, dexterous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwilling, reluctant, unavailable, unready, unripe, difficult, unenthusiastic, young reason: (n) account, intellect, occasion, object, understanding, argument, purpose; (n, v) cause; (v) argue, debate; (adj, n) rationality. ANTONYMS: (n) inconsistency, disincentive reasons: (n) proof rebel: (v) mutiny, disobey, arise; (adj, n) nonconformist, insurgent; (adj, n, v) renegade; (n, v) revolt; (adj) mutineer; (n) traitor, insurrectionist, anarchist. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) conformist; (n) stalwart; (adj) compliant, content, obedient; (v) agree, obey rebuke: (n, v) reprimand, rebuff, reproach, chide, blame, reproof, lecture, check; (v) castigate, berate; (n) admonition. ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise, compliment; (v) commend, acknowledge, approve; (n) approval receive: (v) get, admit, assume, have, welcome, bear, obtain, adopt, make, greet, embrace. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, disburse, lose, mail, present, spend, dispatch reception: (n) acceptance, admission, receiving, greeting, getting, salutation, acceptation, comprehension; (adj, n) entertainment, party; (n, v) adoption. ANTONYMS: (n) dispatch, rejection recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n) compensation, amends, atonement, payment, consideration, indemnification, indemnity; (v) compensate, reimburse. ANTONYMS: (v) penalize, receive; (n) penalty reconcile: (adj, v) conciliate, accord, harmonize; (v) accommodate, pacify, placate, mediate, adjust, harmonise, make up, propitiate. ANTONYMS: (v) alienate, estrange, provoke, quarrel, segregate, worsen records: (n) documents, archive, archives, proceedings, minutes, papers, annals, transactions, documentation, information, dossier recount: (v) tell, recite, relate, describe, enumerate, inform, detail, rehearse, count, report, convey

Pericles recover: (v) reclaim, get back, recuperate, retrieve, regain, pick up, get well, restore, heal, convalesce, mend. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, die, decline, aggravate, abandon, worsen, scatter re-enter: (v) return, come back refresh: (v) air, enliven, invigorate, update, comfort, regenerate, rejuvenate, cool, renew, restore; (adj) refreshing. ANTONYMS: (v) exhaust, tire, weary, stagnate, drain, kill refuse: (v) deny, reject, decline, disallow, rebuff, turn down; (adj, n) waste, trash; (n) offal, litter; (n, v) dross. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, receive, permit, offer, dedicate, approve, agree, admit, choose, pass, affirm refused: (adj) forbidden, refuse, prohibited, hence regent: (n) trustee, experrection, protector, viceregent, vizier, vicar, superintendent, curator, governor, viceroy; (adj) regnant region: (adv, n) country; (n) field, domain, district, area, realm, part, province, locality, division, circuit regions: (n) area, region, parts reign: (v) govern, command, predominate, dominate, prevail; (n) dominance, dominion, control, government, administration, kingdom relapse: (n, v) regress, decline, fall; (n) recidivism, recurrence, regression, deterioration; (v) backslide, revert, recur, deteriorate. ANTONYMS: (v) improve, recover, progress; (n) improvement, recovery, regeneration relate: (v) recount, narrate, link, associate, tell, appertain, apply, detail, describe, recite, refer. ANTONYMS: (v) dissociate, conceal, conflict, contrast, disconnect, separate relating: (prep) concerning, connecting, involving, linking, between; (n) comparison, fellow feeling, telling, practice; (adj) like, germane relieve: (n, v) ease, assuage, mitigate, alleviate, allay, calm, redress; (v) free, help, console, excuse. ANTONYMS: (v) burden, aggravate, exacerbate, harbor, enforce, include, upset, depress relieved: (adj) alleviated, thankful, mitigated, prominent, pleased, joyful, fresh, delighted, comfortable,

cheerful, happy. ANTONYM: (adj) worried remember: (v) commemorate, recognize, recollect, recall, consider, memorize, think, mind, call to mind, retain, bear in mind. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, neglect, overlook remembrance: (n, v) recollection, mind; (n) commemoration, memorial, recall, relic, monument, keepsake, reminiscence, recognition; (adj, n) memento renown: (n, v) fame; (n) glory, distinction, eminence, notoriety, kudos, name, popularity, prestige, prominence, honor. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, commonness; (adj) anonymity renowned: (adj, n) illustrious, glorious; (adj) famous, famed, notable, noted, eminent, distinguished, great, notorious, well-known. ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, anonymous, undistinguished repair: (n, v) redress, mend, correct, cure, overhaul, fix; (v) patch, restore, doctor, renovate, compensate. ANTONYMS: (v) injure, arrive, wreck, worsen; (n) breaking, wrecking repeat: (v) copy, recapitulate, reduplicate, reiterate, rehearse, return, say, double, renew, iterate, duplicate repeated: (adj) continual, recurrent, frequent, persistent, repeat, double, habitual, chronic, again, common, continuous. ANTONYMS: (adj) temporary, rare, unique, alternate, unusual, spasmodic repent: (v) deplore, bewail, rue, mourn, lament, atone, sorry, bemoan, feel remorse, grieve, be sorry repetition: (n) gemination, reiteration, recurrence, replication, iteration, return, repeating, renewal, duplication, rehearsal, reduplication. ANTONYM: (n) disappearance report: (n, v) account, gossip, name, record; (n) description, notice, recital, story, notification; (v) describe, recount reporting: (n) coverage, notification, insurance, performance reporting, news, line reporting, publication, insurance coverage, registration, announcement; (adv) under reports: (n) correspondence, data, intelligence, news

William Shakespeare represented: (adj) delineate, depicted, representing, drawn, painted, pictured, diagrammatic reproof: (n, v) reprimand, censure, rebuke, lecture; (n) reproach, admonition, reprehension, blame, condemnation, objurgation, castigation reputation: (n) name, prestige, distinction, face, celebrity, credit, character; (n, v) honor, esteem, report; (adj, n) renown. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, dishonor, obscurity require: (v) charge, crave, involve, desire, demand, exact, claim, ask, entail; (adj, v) want, lack. ANTONYMS: (v) obviate, dislike, have requite: (adj, v) pay, gratify, satisfy; (v) recompense, reciprocate, compensate, reward, remunerate, reimburse, return, refund rescued: (adj) saved, protected resist: (n, v) oppose, confront; (v) rebel, defy, revolt, endure, reject, protest, refuse, impede, fight back. ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, yield, assent, agree, suppress, favor, accept, attract, obey, welcome resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine, solve, decide, dissolve, decompose, settle; (n) determination, firmness, decision, resolution. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, irresoluteness, vacillation, cowardice, flexibility, indecisiveness, indifference; (v) aggravate, complicate, exacerbate, waver resolved: (adj, v) resolute, firm, certain; (adj) fixed, definite, set, decided, conclusive, intent, solved, positive. ANTONYMS: (adj) undecided, flexible, irresolute, unconfirmed, uncertain resort: (n, v) repair, haunt; (n) expedient, refuge, holiday resort, playground, covert, retreat; (v) recur, rendezvous, frequent. ANTONYM: (v) rise respect: (adj, n, v) regard, worship; (n, v) esteem, heed, notice, reverence; (v) observe, keep, appreciate; (n) homage, deference. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scorn, dishonor, disregard; (n) cheek, insolence, impudence, disdain; (v) despise, humiliate, break, taint respite: (n, v) pause, rest, lull; (n) repose, intermission, recess, break, remission, relief, cessation, interruption

rest: (adj, n) remnant, remainder, residue; (n, v) pause, balance, nap, relaxation, sleep; (n) recess, leisure; (v) remain. ANTONYMS: (n) activity, agitation, intensification; (v) change, stand, deteriorate return: (v) recur, reimburse, restore; (n, v) pay, restitution, recompense, refund, restoration, render, retort; (n) proceeds. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, confiscation, abolition, recovery, loss, disappearance, penalty; (v) keep, depart, take, remove revenge: (n) retribution, vengeance, reprisal, retaliation, repayment, grudge, punishment; (v) retaliate, repay, requite, vindicate reverence: (n, v) respect, regard, fear, worship, honor, esteem, adore; (n) deference, adoration, admiration, awe. ANTONYMS: (n) despise, disrespect, irreverence, disdain, disparagement, contempt; (v) dishonor reverend: (n) preacher, clergyman, parson, rector, vicar, pastor, priest, minister, churchman; (adj) respectable, honourable reward: (n, v) recompense, return, compensation, guerdon, wage, meed, prize, bribe; (v) repay, requite; (n) payment. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, sentence; (v) dishonor, penalize rich: (adj, n) copious, luxurious; (adj) productive, fruitful, full, deep, prolific, opulent, fat, affluent; (adj, v) fertile. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, impoverished, destitute, broke, light, plain, lean, delicate, infertile, weak, barren riches: (n, v) money; (n) affluence, abundance, fortune, opulence, plenty, prosperity, exuberance, treasure, resources; (v) gold richly: (adv) wealthily, copiously, opulently, lavishly, abundantly, sumptuously, affluently, profusely, amply, plentifully, fully. ANTONYMS: (adv) meagerly, poorly, simply, barely riddle: (n) mystery, conundrum, puzzle, problem, poser; (n, v) screen, sieve; (v) puncture, strain, filter, sift. ANTONYM: (n) explanation ride: (n, v) outing; (adj, v) bestride; (n) run, lift, jaunt; (v) mount, bait, float, rag, tease, harass rightly: (adv) correctly, rightfully, properly, accurately, appropriately, exactly, fitly, straightly, fairly, really;

159 (adv, v) adequately. ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly, inappropriately, incorrectly, immorally, unjustly, partially, sinfully, unfairly, falsely ring: (n, v) encircle, peal, call, loop, jingle; (v) resound, echo, reverberate; (n) gang, band, rim ripe: (adj) adult, ready, advanced, prepared, good, grown, perfect, matured, finished, consummate; (adj, v) mellow. ANTONYMS: (adj) green, unripe, immature, dry, poisonous, young, unsuitable, sweet rise: (n, v) mount, lift, increase, heave, swell, jump; (v) ascend, arise; (n) elevation, ascent, progress. ANTONYMS: (n, v) decrease, drop; (v) sink, descend, plummet, retire, set; (n) reduction, descent, depreciation, ruin risen: (v) uprise road: (n) way, track, course, route, avenue, highway, approach, thoroughfare, direction; (n, v) passage, line robes: (n) garb, fine clothes, costume, best clothes room: (n) chamber, occasion, house, apartment, opportunity, hall, opening, compartment, expanse, extent; (v) board. ANTONYM: (n) walkway rooted: (adj, v) fixed; (adj) ingrained, immovable, inveterate, firm, set, frozen, riveted, irremovable; (v) imbedded, posited roots: (n) heredity, family, origin, line, extraction, ancestry rose: (adj) pink, rosaceous, risen, roseate; (n) pink wine, blush wine, rose wine, rosette, brier; (v) flush, redden rosemary: (n) herb, thyme, Labiatae, rosmary, Rosmarinus, rosmarine, pot herbs, parsley, mint family, Lamiaceae, sage rotten: (adj, v) decayed, musty; (adj) foul, poor, fetid, lousy, putrid, off, ill, shabby, wretched. ANTONYMS: (adj) fresh, superior, unrotten, good, incorruptible, honest, lovely, fair, great, respectful rough: (adj, n) hard, grating, jagged; (adj, n, v) harsh; (adj) raw, gross, cruel, crude, gruff; (adj, v) hoarse; (n, v) draft. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, silky, soft, sophisticated, refined, polished, precise, exact, pleasant, glossy, even round: (n) bout, circuit, beat; (n, v) ring, compass; (adv, prep) about; (adj) circular, entire; (adj, v) plump;

160 (adj, n, v) turn; (v) gird. ANTONYMS: (adj) sharp, slender, thin, square, harsh, reedy, evasive; (prep) exactly royal: (adj, adv) regal, majestic; (adj) imperial, magnificent, kingly, noble, brilliant, sovereign, purple, August, princely ruff: (n, v) ruffle, trump, disturbance; (n) collar, neckband, fraise, blacktail, choker, neck ruff, sandpiper; (v) crossruff ruin: (n) devastation, desolation; (adj, n) downfall; (v) break, consume, demolish, destroy; (n, v) doom, ravage, destruction, damage. ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, enhance, save, restore, improve; (n, v) respect; (n) making, success, triumph, rise, preservation rule: (n, v) control, order, govern, decree, influence, line, dominion, regulate, reign; (n) law, ordinance. ANTONYMS: (v) request; (n) option ruled: (adj) lined, lawful, subordinate, subject runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness, Montezuma's revenge rushing: (adv) rushingly; (n) haste, hurry, hurrying, running, hastening, flush, movement; (adj) flowing, headlong, moving rusty: (adj) ancient, out of practice, intractable, old, corroded, deaf to reason, exceptious, cantankerous; (v) moldy, raw, mildewed rutting: (adj) estrous, horny, hot, randy sable: (adj) black, dark, dusky, sombre, murky, mournful; (n) ebony, fur, blackness, marten, pitch black sackcloth: (n) bagging, bag cloth, sacking, cloth, garment sacred: (adj) holy, hallowed, dedicated, consecrated, divine, religious, pious, spiritual, inviolable, blessed; (adj, v) solemn. ANTONYMS: (adj) profane, unconsecrated, cursed, breakable safe: (adj) reliable, cautious, good, dependable, sound, harmless, innocuous, correct, innocent, inoffensive; (n) closet. ANTONYMS: (adj) dangerous, risky, unprotected, vulnerable, hurt, insecure, harmful, reckless, unreliable, toxic, injured safely: (adv) surely, safe, certainly, cautiously, soundly, strongly, sure, steadily, harmlessly, unharmedly, unhurtly. ANTONYMS: (adv) harmfully, hazardously, loosely

Pericles sage: (adj) sagacious, discerning, intelligent, prudent, judicious, learned, profound, knowing; (adj, v) grave; (n) philosopher, scholar sail: (n, v) cruise, float, voyage, sheet; (v) navigate, run, glide, drift, cross, sweep, travel. ANTONYM: (v) struggle sailor: (n) seaman, seafarer, tar, bluejacket, gob, boatman, navigator, navy man, lascar, Panama, leghorn sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive, ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n) object, account, design, purpose, saki sale: (n) fair, disposal, sales, sales event, bazaar, market, demand, marketing, saloon, vend, vendition. ANTONYMS: (n) acquisition, purchase salute: (v) greet, hail, kiss, accost, acknowledge, buss; (n) salutation, bow, salaam; (n, v) address, compliment same: (adj) identical, equal, like, corresponding, equivalent, similar, uniform, even, consistent, matching; (adv) equally. ANTONYMS: (adj) different, varying, another, unlike, other, varied sands: (n) littoral, litoral, beach, coast, quicksands, shore sapling: (n) seedling, stripling, adolescent, sprout, plant, youth, tree, young tree, cub, young man, plantlet satin: (adj) glossy, sleek, velvet, down, silky, silklike, silken, satiny, velure; (n) cloth, fabric satisfy: (v) please, persuade, meet, satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj, v) content, fill, suffice, do. ANTONYMS: (v) intensify, displease, disappoint, disgruntle, frustrate savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious; (adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel, bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n) brute; (n) vandal. ANTONYMS: (adj) civilized, gentle, nice save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, maintain, preserve, free, protect, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) except; (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander, use, abandon, endanger, capture, asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy saved: (adj) protected, economized, rescued, blessed savour: (n, v) relish; (v) taste, enjoy, devour; (n) flavour, flavor, sapidity, gusto, piquancy, tang, smack

saying: (adj, n, v) maxim; (n) axiom, adage, phrase, dictum, idiom, byword, aphorism, expression; (n, v) saw, proverb scape: (n) flower stalk, peduncle, shaft, scapus, ray, perspective, Peter, prick, prospect, barb, rotating shaft scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient, infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, common, adequate, strong, usual, extensive scarcely: (adv) narrowly, rarely, hardly, just, scarce, uncommonly, insufficiently, scantily, scantly, only just, seldom. ANTONYMS: (adv) easily, liberally scatter: (n, v) spread, spray; (v) disperse, dispel, disseminate, distribute, break up, dissipate, sprinkle, circulate, diffuse. ANTONYMS: (v) collect, reform, attract, concentrate scene: (n, v) aspect, view, outlook, lookout; (n) background, display, spectacle, picture, environment, panorama, perspective scholar: (n) learner, academic, student, pundit, apprentice, intellectual, brain, exhibitioner, academician, professor, disciple. ANTONYM: (n) teacher schoolmaster: (n) master, preceptor, pedagogue, headmaster, dominie, teacher, principal, educator, head, Lutjanus apodus, housemaster scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride, slight; (n) contempt, derision, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value, approve, admire, accept; (n) admiration, commendation, humility scour: (v) scrub, ransack, burnish, abrade, furbish, polish, search, cleanse, graze, buff; (adj, v) flush. ANTONYM: (v) dirty seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk, stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark, imprint, signet; (adj) conclude. ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal search: (v) grope, rummage, ransack, pry; (n) pursuit, exploration, examination, inquiry, inspection; (n, v) inquire, research seated: (adj) sat, sedentary second: (n) instant, jiffy, flash, minute, sec; (v) back, endorse, help; (n, v) support; (adj) latter, further. ANTONYMS: (adj) top, former; (n)

William Shakespeare age secret: (adj, v) mysterious, hidden, covert, secluded, confidential; (adj) concealed, furtive, occult, obscure; (adj, n) privacy, secrecy. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) known, public; (adj) open, overt, apparent, unrestricted, external, visible, outermost, transparent, blatant secrets: (n) secrecy secure: (adj, v) close, firm, fix, certain, confident, fasten, attach, bind; (v) preserve, gain; (adj) reliable. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, detach, unfasten, undo; (adj) vulnerable, unsafe, loose, uncertain, unlocked, uncomfortable, unstable seeing: (prep) because; (adj) Seely, considering; (n) sight, vision, beholding, fusion, visual sense; (v) conceive, comprehend, perceive seek: (n, v) ask, inquire; (v) hunt, endeavor, attempt, look, aspire, pursue, beg, quest, explore. ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant seem: (v) appear, feel, seeming, loom, expect, show, beseem, sound, glitter, glisten, gleam seen: (adj) visible, clad, beseen, accomplished, discovered, appearing; (v) observe, perceive, conceive, comprehend, understand seized: (adj) confiscate, appropriated, condemned, apprehended, grasped, taken, held, seised, detained, obtained, arraught seldom: (adj) scarce, rare, few, infrequent; (adv) occasionally, infrequently, uncommonly, hardly, scarcely, not often, once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS: (adv) often, seldom self: (n) ego, person, me, individual, being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; (adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally semblance: (adj, n) color; (n) resemblance, appearance, look, aspect, air, image, similarity, pretense, guise, pretext. ANTONYM: (n) difference send: (v) pass, deliver, forward, convey, dispatch, mail, post, give, carry, divert, project. ANTONYM: (v) keep sense: (n) perception, meaning, common sense, sensation, logic, understanding, impression, feeling; (n, v) feel, intellect, mind. ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity, garbage, ludicrousness, nonsense, foolishness, gibberish, illogicality, irrationality, numbness, certainty;

(v) observe senses: (adj) sober senses, sound mind; (n) reason, mind, conception, consciousness, judgment, faculties, mother wit, right mind, sanity sent: (adj) dispatched, imported, ecstatic, blissful, fascinated, intoxicated; (v) transmit. ANTONYM: (adj) unsent sentence: (v) condemn, convict, judge, damn; (n) finding, phrase, conviction, punishment; (n, v) decision, doom, condemnation. ANTONYMS: (n) reward, absolution; (v) absolve, acquit serious: (adj, n, v) grave; (adj) heavy, austere, great, hard, dangerous, critical; (adj, v) sedate, important, momentous, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) lighthearted, mild, flippant, cheerful, humorous, minor, slight, playful, trivial, unimportant, brisk servant: (n) manservant, domestic, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey, retainer, boy, footman, flunky, menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master, mistress servants: (n) staff, suite serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate, function, do; (n, v) officiate service: (n, v) overhaul, serve, refit, assist; (n) aid, employment, assistance, avail, ministration, ceremony; (v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n) disservice, damage, hindrance, uselessness settled: (adj) definite, set, firm, permanent, certain, calm, established, decided, formed, defined, finished. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsettled, exciting, temporary seven: (adj, n) VII; (n) September, septet, week, nine, knave, king, jack, queen, digit, Sevener several: (adj, v) diverse, divers, sundry; (adj, n) a few, some; (adj) various, individual, different, particular, special, numerous. ANTONYMS: (adj) joint, all, none sexton: (n) beadle, verger, almoner, Anne sexton, Suisse, gravedigger, church officer, caretaker shadow: (n) ghost, darkness, apparition, follower, gloom, reflection; (n, v) eclipse, trace, tail, hint; (v) follow. ANTONYMS: (v) brighten, lead; (n) brightness, pallor shadows: (n) dark, darkness, night, dimness, dusk, fogginess, mistiness, gloom, cloudiness. ANTONYM: (n)

161 brightness shaft: (n) arrow, beam, axis, pole, arbor, dart, pillar, lance, well, axle; (adj, n) pit shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, bequeath, leave shame: (n, v) disgrace, dishonor, discredit, humiliate, degrade, chagrin; (n) humiliation, modesty, scandal, insult; (v) abash. ANTONYMS: (n) pride, glorification, making, worthiness; (v) acknowledge, glorify, respect, dignify shape: (n, v) cast, mold, fashion, mould, model, make, design; (n) pattern, figure; (v) determine, influence sharp: (adj, n, v) keen, acute, bitter; (adj) intelligent, intense, incisive; (adj, v) biting, acid, acrid, severe, harsh. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, mild, gentle, sweet, rounded, bland, round, smooth, blurred, naive, kind shelter: (n, v) guard, refuge, harbor, protect, shield; (adj, n, v) screen; (n) protection, asylum, sanctuary, security, hut. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, exposure; (v) endanger shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover, guard, safeguard, buffer; (v) preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n) protection. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, exposure; (v) endanger, attack, reveal shine: (n, v) light, sheen, flash, glitter, sparkle, polish, rub; (v) burnish, gleam, blaze; (n) radiance ship: (v) send, forward, transport, send off, consign, carry, transfer, move; (n) boat, craft; (n, v) ferry. ANTONYM: (v) keep shipping: (n) transport, forwarding, sending, transportation, shipment, navigation, carriage, conveyance, dispatch, freightage, ferry shipwreck: (n, v) ruin; (adj, v) sink; (v) defeat, scuttle, destroy, fail; (n) hulk, accident, wreckage, wrack, ruination shipwrecked: (adj, v) stranded; (adj) castaway, stuck, rejected, high and dry; (v) wrecked, cast away, capsized, grounded, foundered, swamped shore: (n) coast, edge, beach, seashore, stay, seaside, brace, margin; (n, v) prop, land, buttress. ANTONYM: (n) sea shores: (n) coast, seaboard, seashore, shoreline. ANTONYM: (n) interior short: (adj, v) concise, close; (adj)

162 scarce, curt, brusque, sharp, compendious, laconic, deficient, scanty, diminutive. ANTONYMS: (adj) long, high, lengthy, unabridged, sufficient, slender, rangy, rambling, overlong, extended, plentiful shot: (n) injection, gunshot, go, fling, shoot, crack, ball, picture, bang, jab, discharge shouts: (n) cries show: (adj, n, v) present, appearance; (n, v) exhibit, produce, broadcast, indicate, parade; (v) point out; (n) presentation, ostentation; (adj, v) guide. ANTONYMS: (v) disprove, hide, withhold, suppress, disappear, cover, absorb; (n) concealment shown: (adj) manifest, revealed, exhibited, ostensible, avowed, declared, denoted, given away; (v) appear, represent, indicate. ANTONYM: (adj) hidden shun: (v) evade, escape, elude, dodge, flee, refuse, shirk, ostracize, banish, parry; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS: (v) befriend, invite, seek, welcome, woo, court, participate, include shut: (v) seal, bar, fasten, obstruct, lock, exclude; (adj) closed, cut; (n) shutting, end, finish. ANTONYMS: (v) admit, undo sick: (adj) ill, queasy, poorly, ailing, weary, diseased, sickly, morbid; (adj, v) indisposed, unwell; (adj, n) invalid. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, fond, wholesome side: (n) rim, faction, brink, direction, hand, aspect, margin; (adj, n) part; (n, v) party, border, face. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, central, major, primary; (n) back, front, center, middle; (v) straddle sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show, aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, see; (n) view, prospect, scene sign: (n, v) mark, motion, gesture; (n) portent, indication, manifestation, imprint, presage, brand, poster; (v) indicate. ANTONYMS: (n) successor; (v) dismiss signior: (n) don, man, Mr, adult male, signor silk: (adj) silky, down, silken, velure, velvet; (n) silks, satin, cloth, animal fiber, fabric, dental floss silken: (adj) glossy, silk, sleek, soft, satiny, satin, shiny, smooth, slick, downy, mild. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, dull, rough silver: (n) money, gold, bullion,

Pericles precious Metals; (adj) silvery, argent, white, silvern, gray, neutral tint; (v) plate simple: (adj, n) plain, humble, innocent, rustic; (adj) homely, elementary, natural; (adj, v) pure, clear, mere, downright. ANTONYMS: (adj) complex, complicated, compound, elaborate, difficult, multiple, obscure, ornate, problematical, sophisticated, confusing since: (adv, conj, prep) because, seeing that; (adv, prep) afterwards, before; (adv, conj) for, as; (adj, adv) ago; (conj) whereas; (prep) from, of; (adv) after sinful: (adj) wicked, impious, bad, iniquitous, ungodly, depraved, immoral, profane, criminal, wrong, unholy. ANTONYMS: (adj) pious, virtuous, moral, right, pure sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone, intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch; (n, v) twitter, squeak single: (adj) celibate, odd, particular, separate, solitary, isolated, sole, lone, lonely, simple; (adj, n) one. ANTONYMS: (adj) double, multiple, divorced, attached, dual, involved, widowed, general, common; (n) record sink: (n, v) sag, dip; (v) decline, fall, set, descend, drop, fell, subside, settle; (adj, n, v) droop. ANTONYMS: (v) rise, float, improve, increase, recover, drift, ascend, raise sixth: (n) common fraction, interval, musical interval, simple fraction skill: (n) artifice, capacity, capability, knack, ability, faculty, finesse, cleverness, expertise; (adj, n) craft, cunning. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, incompetence, uselessness, stupidity, ineptness, tactlessness, inexperience, ignorance, inaccuracy, delay, drawback slack: (adj, v) loose, lax, remiss, slow, dull; (adj) indolent, negligent, idle, flaccid, limp, baggy. ANTONYMS: (adj) strict, taut, thorough, brisk, diligent, attentive, upright, prompt, meticulous; (v) tighten; (n) tautness slain: (v) slay; (adj) overthrown, mat, fallen, dejected, cast down sleep: (n, v) nap, repose, doze, kip, slumber, catnap; (adj, n, v) lie; (v) hibernate, nod; (n) dream; (adj, v) lodge. ANTONYMS: (v) awaken; (n) alertness, agitation

slumber: (n, v) rest, doze, snooze, nap, drowse, repose, catnap; (v) be asleep, kip, take a nap; (n) siesta small: (adj) little, narrow, slight, minor, inadequate, petty, fine, insignificant, light, remote; (adj, v) low. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) big; (adj) sizeable, colossal, considerable, enormous, great, huge, bulky, major, giant, important smile: (n) grin, grinning, smiling, luck, facial expression; (v) laugh, beam, chuckle, simper; (n, v) grimace; (adv) smilingly. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scowl; (v) glower smooth: (adj, v) quiet, level, facilitate; (adj) calm, oily, facile, fluent, flowing, flat, fluid, graceful. ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, uneven, wrinkled, peeling, jerky, ridged, flaking, abrasive, coarse, prickly; (v) wrinkle smother: (v) stifle, suffocate, choke, muffle, extinguish, put out, suppress, asphyxiate, hush up, gag, repress. ANTONYMS: (v) express, light, encourage snatch: (n, v) pinch, snap, catch, grip; (v) abduct, clutch, kidnap, seize, jerk, capture, pluck. ANTONYM: (v) release snowball: (v) increase, become more intense, add, gain, get, increase in intensity, intensify, magnify; (n) snowdrift, sweet sand verbena, frozen dessert sodden: (adj, v) soaking, dripping; (adj) damp, wet, saturated, sopping, soggy, muddy, drenched, sloppy, soppy soft: (adj, adv) easy, quiet; (adj) limp, light, balmy, delicate, slack, loose, smooth; (adj, v) feeble; (adj, adv, v) low. ANTONYMS: (adj) hard, firm, harsh, loud, hoarse, stiff, rough, solid, strong, shrill, alcoholic softly: (adv) quietly, mildly, lightly, tenderly, delicately, gently, soft, quiet, silently, kindly, slowly. ANTONYMS: (adv) hoarsely, roughly, loudly, clearly, harshly, forte, severely, strongly, heavily, convincingly, brightly sojourner: (n) householder, incumbent, inmate, lodger, metic, tenant, residentiary, resident, occupier, occupant, dweller sold: (adj) depleted, interested; (v) to market soldier: (n) warrior, fighter, serviceman, champion, ranker,

William Shakespeare military personnel, swordsman, trooper, cavalryman, guardsman, janissary sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) single, singular, one, exclusive, individual, only, alone, solitary. ANTONYM: (adj) common solicit: (v) crave, request, petition, ask, pray, importune, require, apply, implore, demand; (adj, v) court something: (n) what, object, thing, article, entity, substance, somebody; (adv, n) somewhat; (adv) rather, a little, kinda. ANTONYM: (pron) nothing sometime: (adv) someday, once, one day, formerly, sooner or later; (adj) quondam, erstwhile, former, old, late; (adj, adv) sometimes sometimes: (adv) from time to time, occasionally, every now and then, now and again, every so often, once, sometime, once in a while, formerly; (n) at times; (adj, adv) on and off. ANTONYM: (adv) regularly somewhat: (adv) slightly, a little, fairly, a bit, reasonably, pretty, moderately, sort of; (adv, v) little; (adv, pron) partly; (adj, adv) something. ANTONYMS: (adv) considerably, very, unreasonably, totally, hugely, completely, closely, massively, absolutely, wholly song: (adj, v) lay; (n, v) ditty, chant; (n) air, strain, cry, warble, canto, poem; (v) sing; (adj) ballad sooner: (adj, adv) rather, earlier, before, preferably, instead; (adv) first, before now, faster, previously, beforehand; (adj) prior sooth: (n) verity, soothsaying, fact, truth, reality sore: (adj, n, v) hurt; (adj) sensitive, angry, grievous, raw; (n) injury, lesion, cut, boil; (v) acute; (adj, v) sharp. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, healthy, pleased, comfortable sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve; (v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache, repentance, remorse; (adj, n) sadness, misery; (adj, n, v) distress. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight, happiness, peace, hopefulness, cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm, content; (v) rejoice sorrowing: (adj) sorrowful, grieving, mournful, distressed, bereft, bereaved, unhappy, lamenting, regretful, sad; (n) cry. ANTONYM: (adj) joyful sort: (adj, n, v) class; (n, v) type, group, rank; (n) variety, breed,

assortment, form, pattern; (adj, n) manner, description sorts: (n) varieties, sorting, running pi, batter sought: (adj) required, quest, seeking, popular soul: (n) creature, human, person, personification, ghost, individual, mind, essence, life, self; (adj, n) heart. ANTONYMS: (n) surface, body sound: (n, v) chime, echo, peal; (adj) reasonable, complete, healthy, sensible, sane, rational; (adj, v) fit, fast. ANTONYMS: (adj) illogical, unsound, confused, unreliable, flawed, flimsy, silent, weak, unreasonable; (n) silence; (v) devoice sovereign: (n) ruler, king, lord, emperor; (adj) independent, autonomous, imperial, royal, free, regal; (adj, n) prince. ANTONYMS: (adj) dependent, ineffective, useless space: (n) gap, scope, opening, period, place, void, margin, latitude, extent, emptiness, distance. ANTONYM: (n) mess spacious: (adj) broad, extensive, large, wide, ample, commodious, vast, capacious, comprehensive, open, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) cramped, narrow, airless, overcrowded spaniel: (n) sycophant, beagle, harrier, clumber, bootlicker, springer, groveller, gun dog, groveler; (v) snob, lapdog spanish: (n) Spanish people, romance language, Castilian spare: (adj, v) free, reserve, save, thin; (adj) slender, slight, additional, lean; (adj, n) extra, excess; (v) exempt. ANTONYMS: (n) shortfall, original; (adj) principal, fat, basic, abundant, stout; (v) need, include speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v) converse, say, deliver, articulate, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n) language speaking: (n) talk, discourse, speech, public speaking, reading, oral presentation, recital, recitation, disputation; (v) speak; (adj) expressive. ANTONYMS: (adj) nonspeaking, silent speaks: (n) talks speech: (n) lecture, expression, language, conversation, sermon, diction, communication; (n, v) delivery, discourse, say, saying speechless: (adj) silent, mute, dumb,

163 dumbfounded, voiceless, quiet, tongueless, tacit, noiseless, mum, wordless. ANTONYMS: (adj) loquacious, eloquent, talkative speeding: (n) acceleration, quickening, hurrying, fastness, f number, scudding, focal ratio, amphetamine; (adj) active, hastening; (adv) faster spend: (v) expend, exhaust, squander, pay out, blow, deplete, pass, wear, lead; (adj, v) waste; (n) outlay. ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, earn, hoard, keep spirit: (n, v) courage, mind; (n) mood, ghost, apparition, disposition, energy, essence, soul, phantom; (adj, n) animation. ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, body, cowardice, surface, sluggishness, lifelessness, defeatism spirits: (n) alcohol, booze, humor, frame of mind, liqueur, strong drink, hard drink; (adj) cheer, geniality, good humor; (v) wine spit: (v) drizzle, expectorate, sprinkle, spew, drool, spike, spatter; (n) broach, saliva, cape; (n, v) skewer spite: (n) malice, grudge, hatred, malevolence, rancour, venom, rancor, maliciousness, ill will, animosity; (n, v) pique. ANTONYMS: (v) please; (n) benevolence, goodwill, love, affection, harmony split: (adj, n, v) break, cut; (n, v) rip, rupture, fracture, slit, tear, burst, divorce; (v) divide, separate. ANTONYMS: (v) join, unite, merge, converge, combine; (n) union, unity, marriage, convergence, closure; (n, v) mend spoke: (n) bar, rung, radius, rule, shoe, skid, rundle, line, clog, round; (v) said spoken: (adj) verbal, expressed, speaking, speak, unwritten, vocal, voiced, talk, said, informal, conversational. ANTONYMS: (adj) written, unspoken, tacit, formal, silent sports: (n) athletics; (adj) sporting spread: (n, v) scatter, stretch, increase; (adj, n, v) reach; (v) disperse, expand, propagate, disseminate, diffuse, circulate; (adj, v) extend. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, gather, collect, fold, prevent, regress, shrink, specialize, concentrate; (n) decline; (n, v) decrease spring: (n, v) leap, bound, hop, fountain, skip, caper, bounce, dive,

164 dance; (n) source; (v) originate square: (n) area, rectangle; (adj) rectangular, fair, honest; (adj, v) even, correspond, agree; (v) settle; (adv, n) foursquare; (adj, adv) just. ANTONYMS: (adj) round, underhand, trendy, fresh, activist, relaxed squire: (n, v) escort; (n) landlord, gallant, attendant, beau, gentleman, esquire, landowner, landholder, armiger; (v) attend staff: (n) club, pole, post, employees, personnel, faculty, mace; (v) crutch, prop; (n, v) rod, stick stage: (n, v) phase; (n) floor, point, period, level, degree, proscenium, arena, layer; (v) present, order staleness: (n) triteness, mustiness, oldness, banality, camp, moldiness, collapse, dankness, obviousness, tiredness, dullness. ANTONYMS: (n) freshness, crispness, originality stalk: (n) stem, shank; (v) pursue, walk, march, follow, shadow, tail, track, trail, hunt stand: (v) endure, undergo; (n) rack, booth, attitude, base, pedestal; (n, v) live, position; (adj, v) suffer, tolerate. ANTONYMS: (v) sit, lie, yield, forbid; (n) top standing: (n) fame, position, importance, prestige, place, reputation, footing; (adj) erect, motionless, continuance; (n, v) stand. ANTONYMS: (adj) seated, moving, horizontal, falling, temporary stands: (n) bleachers, stood, grandstand, standing, stop, covered stand, standpoint, stall, sales booth, reviewing stand, rack star: (n, v) asterisk; (n) ace, luminary, personality, headliner, leading, lead, idol, asterism; (adj, n) principal, champion. ANTONYMS: (n) nonentity, failure, villain; (adj) insignificant, lousy stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate startle: (n, v) start, jump; (v) frighten, scare, astonish, shock, astound, amaze, shake, threaten, electrify. ANTONYM: (v) soothe starve: (v) fast, crave, lust, hunger, thirst, perish, be hungry, deprive, benumb; (adj, v) pinch; (adj) gripe. ANTONYMS: (v) feed, eat starved: (adj) famished, starving, ravenous, meager, emaciated, malnourished, thin, esurient, hungerly, lean, starveling. ANTONYM: (adj) healthy

Pericles state: (n) nation, position, kingdom, status, country; (n, v) say, show, place; (adj) national; (v) express, expound. ANTONYMS: (adj) private; (n) monarchy; (v) conceal, refute statue: (n) figure, monument, statuette, effigy, idol, sculpture, carving, bust, sphinx, icon, representation stature: (n) height, altitude, standing, tallness, prestige, figure, growth, status, quality, rank, greatness stay: (adj, n, v) remain; (n, v) rest, prop, stop, delay, abide, continue, pause, endure, halt, support. ANTONYMS: (v) change, abscond, depart, move, disappear, become, go stead: (n) behalf, room, lieu, spot, location, station, space, seat, position, office, locality steal: (v) purloin, abstract, sneak, filch, pinch, creep, misappropriate, rob, pilfer; (n) bargain; (n, v) snatch steeple: (adj, n) spire, tower; (n) campanile, minaret, turret, dome; (adj) pyramid, column, obelisk, monument, pillar steerage: (n) guidance, control, steering, direction, helm, management, accommodation, controlling stem: (n) root, bow, branch, stalk, bole, stick, shank, handle; (v) originate, block, arrest. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, accelerate stern: (adj) rigid, rigorous, austere, hard, strict, grim, solemn, rough; (adj, v) harsh; (n) back; (adj, n) rear. ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, approving, lenient, funny, genial, gentle, kindly, lax, liberal, cheerful, flexible stink: (adj, n, v) stench; (n, v) smell, odor; (n) malodour, fetor, malodor, niff, odour, foetor; (v) fume, Pong stir: (adj, n, v) move, bustle; (v) rouse, arouse, affect, agitate, inspire; (adj, n) movement; (n) commotion, excitement, disturbance. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, retire, stultify, bore, steady, stifle, suppress; (n) quiet, peace; (n, v) calm stomach: (adj, v) brook, digest; (v) endure, stand, abide, bear, suffer, tolerate, take; (n) abdomen, appetite stop: (int, n, v) hold, stand; (adj, n, v) stay, cease; (n, v) check, end, close, block, bar, arrest; (v) obstruct. ANTONYMS: (n, v) continue; (v)

begin, encourage, permit, prolong, persevere, expedite, accelerate; (n) continuation, proceed, go stored: (adj) saved, freighted, laden, filled, fraught, charged stormy: (adj, n) inclement, boisterous, rough, severe; (adj) fierce, windy, wild, dirty, foul, tempestuous, blustering. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, still, pleasant, fair, mild, relaxed story: (n, v) history, tale, narrative; (n) recital, narration, report, account, level, legend, novel, stage. ANTONYM: (n) fact straight: (adj) erect, honest, upright, even, fair, perpendicular, correct; (adj, adv, v) direct; (adj, adv, n) right; (adj, adv) level, flat. ANTONYMS: (adj) diluted, zigzag, winding, curly, curved, curvy, twisted, wavy, knotted, askew; (adv) indirectly strain: (n, v) stretch, sift; (adj, n, v) tax; (v) screen, filter, try, exert; (n) effort, breed, exertion, song. ANTONYMS: (v) laze; (n) ease, relief strange: (adj) foreign, peculiar, unusual, abnormal, outlandish, irregular, odd, new, mysterious, extraordinary, curious. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, normal, familiar, typical, usual, conventional, explicable, sensible, mainstream, known, human strangely: (adv) curiously, queerly, unusually, funnily, peculiarly, weirdly, marvelously, uncommonly, extraordinarily, singularly, bizarrely. ANTONYMS: (adv) typically, ordinarily, harmoniously stranger: (n) foreigner, outsider, newcomer, outlander, immigrant, intruder, unknown, tramontane, trespasser; (adj) foreign, strange. ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native, associate, resident, familiar strangers: (n) stranger stray: (v) wander, ramble, range, digress, straggle, meander, depart, deviate, rove, drift, err. ANTONYM: (v) settle street: (n) road, avenue, way, highway, route, lane, neighborhood, path, track, boulevard, Main Street strength: (n, v) power; (n) energy, firmness, endurance, stability, potency, health, soundness; (adj, n, v) might; (adj, n) vigor, intensity. ANTONYMS: (n) frailty, shortcoming, flaw, faintness, powerlessness, moderation,

William Shakespeare limitation, instability, impotence, feebleness, disadvantage strengthen: (v) confirm, corroborate, brace, enhance, encourage, invigorate, intensify, fortify, toughen, stiffen, increase. ANTONYMS: (v) undermine, damage, sap, decrease, atrophy, demoralize, dilute, diminish, exhaust, reduce strew: (v) scatter, spread, disperse, disseminate, distribute, diffuse, sow, sprinkle, bestrew, circulate, propagate. ANTONYM: (v) concentrate strict: (adj) severe, stern, rigid, correct, austere, rigorous, harsh, scrupulous; (adj, v) exact, accurate, precise. ANTONYMS: (adj) lenient, lax, free, negligent, imprecise, flexible, relaxed, loose, gentle, inaccurate, liberal strictly: (adv) rigorously, severely, exactly, correctly, stringently, sternly, rigidly, precisely, closely, literally, harshly. ANTONYMS: (adv) loosely, leniently, lightheartedly, negligently, inaccurately, unlawfully, falsely, amenably strike: (n, v) hit, beat, bang, knock, assault, slap, clap, rap, smash; (v) impress, move. ANTONYMS: (n) defense; (v) extinguish, defend strong: (adj) intense, able, firm, stable, steady, solid, hard, lusty; (adj, v) deep, sound; (adj, n, v) steadfast. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, pale, unconvincing, slight, feeble, frail, bland, faint, delicate, mild, lightweight stronger: (adj) reprobate, insensible, reproof, iniquity, hardening, shameless, graceless, immoralities, ministry; (v) Milman, misery struck: (adj, v) smitten; (v) stroke; (adj) affected, afflicted, doting, dotty, enamored, gaga, hurt, in love, infatuated studied: (adj) deliberate, calculated, conscious, premeditated, affected, elaborate, learned, intended, designed, willful; (v) advised. ANTONYMS: (adj) spontaneous, unstudied, casual stuff: (v) fill, jam, pack, ram, squeeze, pad; (n) material, cloth, matter, gear; (n, v) force. ANTONYMS: (v) starve, unpack, empty subjection: (n) conquest, oppression, captivity, bondage, confinement, servitude, dependence,

enslavement, slavery, repression, subjugation submit: (v) comply, obey, acquiesce, give in, present, hand in, put forward, hand over, propose, give; (n, v) resign. ANTONYMS: (v) resist, persevere, defy, overpower, face, disobey, conquer substance: (adj, n) subject; (n) body, significance, import, material, matter, meaning, amount, means, gist, core. ANTONYMS: (n) meaninglessness, lightness, surface subtilty: (n) thinness, equivocation, nicety, quibble, quiddit, quillet, quodlibet, subtility succeed: (v) follow, arrive, prosper, prevail, manage, supplant, ensue, supersede, do, achieve, flourish. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, precede, lose, botch, restore, neglect, Miss, deteriorate succeeding: (adj) following, subsequent, after, consecutive, posterior, ensuing, consequent, successive, consequential; (adj, adv) later; (v) succeed. ANTONYMS: (adj) outgoing, preceding succour: (n, v) succor; (n) consolation, relief, ministration, mercy, assistance, helping, ease, embossment; (v) relieve, further suddenly: (adj, adv) quickly, rapidly, immediately, presto; (adv) hastily, short, all at once, sudden, sharply, unexpectedly, instantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) increasingly, predictably, slowly, gently, progressively, sensibly, eventually suffer: (v) encounter, stand, accept, undergo, brook, experience, have, endure, abide, sustain; (adj, v) allow. ANTONYMS: (v) enjoy, rejoice, flourish suffice: (v) satisfy, do, answer, content, fulfill, be sufficient, qualify, function, be enough, suit, fulfil sufficiently: (adv) fully, satisfactorily, enough, amply, quite, properly, competently, decently, abundantly, goodly, completely. ANTONYM: (adv) inadequately suit: (adj, v) fit, please; (adj, n, v) correspond; (n) lawsuit, plea, action, case; (v) adapt, accommodate, become; (n, v) answer. ANTONYM: (v) clash sulphurous: (adj) stifling, acerb, hot, sulphureous, infernal, brimstony, virulent, caustic, containing acid, sultry, burning hot summer: (n) summertime, joist,

165 rafter, beam, scaffold, season, skeleton, corner stone, lintel, transom, girder. ANTONYM: (n) winter sung: (v) sing; (n) call, sung dynasty, strain, song dynasty, song, birdsong, birdcall; (adj) spoken, outspoken, choral superstition: (n) superstitious, taboo, religion, old wives' tale, superstitious notion, lore, folklore, fanaticism, fallacy, belief, magic. ANTONYMS: (n) science, truth supposed: (adj) hypothetical, reputed, alleged, assumed, imaginary, putative, apparent, ostensible, suppositional, supposititious, suppositious. ANTONYM: (adj) actual supposing: (adv) admitting, conditionally, in case; (n) supposition, conjecture, thought, theory, assumption; (conj) although, what if; (v) suppose sure: (adj) secure, reliable, safe, indisputable, dependable, assured, positive; (adj, v) steady, firm; (adv) certainly; (adj, adv) for certain. ANTONYMS: (adj) doubtful, uncertain, unsure, hesitant, humbled, dubious, indefinite, wavering, wobbly, unconvinced; (adv) doubtfully surgeon: (n) doctor, sawbones, doc, reed, operating surgeon, medicine, neurosurgeon, plastic surgeon, medico, lister, general practitioner surprise: (n) fright, amazement, wonder, astonishment; (n, v) alarm, shock, jolt; (v) amaze, startle, astonish, stun. ANTONYMS: (n) expectation; (v) encourage, comfort suspect: (v) mistrust, suppose, distrust, conjecture, guess, surmise, divine, disbelieve; (adj) fishy, questionable, shady. ANTONYMS: (adj) trustworthy, trusted, innocent, reliable, credible, aboveboard; (n) plaintiff; (v) know, believe swallowed: (adj) engulfed, gulped, inundated, overcome, overwhelmed, flooded, overpowered, enclosed sway: (n, v) command, rule, control, rock, stagger, roll; (v) oscillate, reel, lurch, shake; (n) reign. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, dissuade, discourage swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, avow, depone, depose, aver. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute,

166 deny, compliment swears: (n) swearing sweet: (adj) fresh, mellow, lovable, dear, pleasant, musical, melodious, pleasing, sugary; (adj, v) lovely; (adj, n) beloved. ANTONYMS: (adj) discordant, bitter, acid, sharp, acidic, pungent, salty, harsh, detestable, cacophonous, dry sweetly: (adv) pleasantly, sweet, mildly, melodically, melodiously, softly, syrupily, beautifully, pleasingly, dulcetly, fairly. ANTONYMS: (adv) discordantly, horribly, sharply, harshly, unkindly sweetness: (n) sugariness, sweet, redolence, pleasantness, fragrance, aroma, charm, perfume, amenity, niceness, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) sourness, sharpness, unpleasantness, harshness, tastelessness, unkindness swift: (adj, adv, v) fast; (adj) quick, fleet, speedy, alert, nimble, hasty, prompt, sudden, hurried; (adj, v) rapid. ANTONYMS: (adj) considered, leisurely, sluggish, gradual, delayed, clumsy sword: (n) blade, sabre, brand, broadsword, falchion, cutlass, saber, steel, glaive, backsword, cutlas sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal, implacable, engaged, dedicated, committed, betrothed, bespoken, affianced, inveterate syllable: (n) antepenultimate, antepenult, penultima, penultimate, articulate, utter, linguistic unit, solfa syllable, speech sound, syllabe, language unit taken: (adj) occupied, full, interpreted, appropriated, seized, overcome, affected, besotted; (v) take, get, receive. ANTONYMS: (adj) given, free talk: (n, v) discourse, gossip, converse, lecture, chatter, chat, address; (v) articulate, speak, prattle; (n) language. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse; (n) silence talking: (n) talk, conversation, nothingness, speech, speaking, verbal communication, words, yak, language; (adj) sound, levelheaded. ANTONYM: (adj) silent talons: (v) claws, tenaculum, unguis, tentacle, teeth; (n) clutches tame: (v) break, subdue, soften, domesticate; (adj) meek, docile, bland, domestic, gentle, slow; (adj, v) moderate. ANTONYMS: (adj) exciting, bright, unmanageable,

Pericles interesting, untamed, inspiring, brilliant, colorful, rebellious, lively target: (n, v) point, goal, purpose; (n) butt, object, mark, objective, end, ambition, destination; (v) direct. ANTONYM: (n) hunter tarsus: (n) Tarsal cartilage , tarsal plate, skeletal structure, tarse task: (n) job, assignment, duty, labor, commission, charge, enterprise, project, stint, occupation; (n, v) exercise taste: (n, v) relish, sample, smack, touch; (n) flavor, liking, penchant, morsel, bit, drop, fondness. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, tastelessness, disinclination, hate, lot, coarseness, uncouthness; (v) abstain, refrain teach: (v) enlighten, educate, instruct, coach, indoctrinate, drill, learn, lecture, school; (adj, v) guide, show tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily function, bodily process, body process, lacerations tedious: (adj) tiresome, boring, dreary, slow, heavy, humdrum, irksome, lifeless; (adj, v) monotonous, arid, dry. ANTONYMS: (adj) exciting, varied, easy, readable, lively, entertaining, enthralling, brisk, concise, exotic, pleasant teeth: (v) mortar and pestle, gristmill, nutmeg grater, grater, file, arrastra, rasp, mill, unguis, tentacle; (n) gear teeth tell: (n, v) disclose, impart, count; (v) relate, reveal, recount, divulge, explain, communicate; (adj, v) declare, express. ANTONYMS: (v) request, misunderstand, estimate, listen, figure, guess, withhold, conceal, suppress, confuse telling: (adj, v) significant; (adj) revealing, emphatic, impressive, effectual, effective, pregnant, cogent; (n) relation, recounting, notice. ANTONYMS: (adj) secretive, unimportant, insignificant, hidden tellus: (n) mother Earth tempest: (adj, n) storm, gust; (n) gale, hurricane, squall, disturbance, cyclone, typhoon, agitation, tornado, blizzard. ANTONYM: (n) serenity temple: (n) church, place of worship, shrine, Fane, house of worship, pantheon, pagoda, synagogue, brow, sanctuary, mosque tender: (n, v) offer, proffer, bid; (adj, v) affectionate; (adj) painful,

sensitive, soft, loving, sore; (v) propose, present. ANTONYMS: (adj) hardhearted, rubbery, hard, rough, uncaring, healthy, mature, unfeeling, cold, experienced; (v) withdraw terms: (n) conditions, provision, stipulation, terminology, price, proposition, lemma, cost, footing, damage, specifications terrible: (adj) horrible, dreadful, horrid, monstrous, abominable, ghastly, dire, appalling, fearful, awful, hideous. ANTONYMS: (adj) lovely, pleasant, great, laudable, excellent, superb, mild, slight, minor, brilliant, insignificant testament: (n) testimonial, testimony, parchment, paper, settlement, evidence, tribute, gospel, guarantee; (n, v) volition; (v) discretionary pleasure testy: (adj) petulant, irritable, crabby, irascible, fractious, cantankerous, cranky, cross, techy, fretful, tetchy. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, pleasant, cheerful thank: (v) give thanks, recognize, bless, thanks, give thanks to, convey, acknowledged, remercy, impart thankful: (adj) appreciative, indebted, beholden, obliged, contented, pleased, gratified, relieved, under obligation, appreciatory, welcome. ANTONYMS: (adj) worried, unappreciative, unthankful, sorry thankfully: (adv) gratefully, obligedly, beholdenly, indebtedly, pleasedly, fortunately, happily, unreservedly, with enthusiasm, with pleasure, freely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unfortunately, unwillingly thankfulness: (n) appreciation, gratefulness, appreciativeness, thanks, credit, merit, recognition thanks: (n) acknowledgment, gratitude, blessing, grace, praise, gratefulness, recognition, credit, benediction, thankfulness; (int) thank you. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, blame themselves: (pron) myself, itself, yourself; (n) yourselves thence: (adv) therefore, thus, therefrom, thereof, consequently, then, so, thereafter, thenceforth, since, on account of therefore: (adv) thence, so, hence, accordingly, as a result, thus, for that reason; (conj) since, because,

William Shakespeare then, ergo therein: (adv) in this, in there thereto: (adv) thereunto, moreover; (adj) likeness, accurate, coincidence, correct, correctness, deportment, detail, exact, expected thetis: (n) Poseidon, triton, naiad, Nereid thick: (adj) compact, stupid, crowded, slow, opaque, dull, heavy, stocky, deep, close, familiar. ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, intelligent, sparse, bright, slight, clever, transparent, diluted, fine, clear, runny thing: (n) affair, occurrence, object, event, concern, something, article, happening, substance, occasion, being things: (n) gear, belongings, equipment, garb, garment, clothes, paraphernalia, goods, life, property, palliament thinking: (n) consideration, idea, opinion, reasoning, intellection, cogitation, conception, contemplation; (adj) intelligent, thoughtful, meditative third: (n) second, tierce, three, third part, terzetto, hot corner, third base; (adv) thirdly; (adj) triple, thrid, tertial thirsty: (adj) eager, arid, parched, avid, keen, athirst, greedy, absorbent, ambitious; (v) craving, hungry. ANTONYMS: (adj) quenched, satisfied, disinterested, wet thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that point, in that respect, at that place, in that location; (adj) further, ulterior, remoter, succeeding, more distant thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage though: (adj, conj) however; (conj) still, notwithstanding, nevertheless, albeit, whereas, while; (adv) even, after all, tho'; (adv, conj) tho thought: (n) idea, impression, conception, belief, concept; (adj, n) opinion, feeling, sentiment; (n, v) consideration, reflection, observation. ANTONYMS: (n) thing, vacuity, vacancy, concrete, thoughtlessness, inattention, impulsiveness, certainty, neglect, trust thoughts: (n) mind, opinion, depth of thought, feelings, reflection, ideas, workings of the mind, view, stance,

position, considered opinion thousand: (adj, n) one thousand, k, m; (n) grand, g, thou, cat Valium, constant of gravitation, grounds, curtilage; (adj) a thousand thousandth: (adj) millesimal; (n) simple fraction thread: (n) screw thread, yarn, rope, wire, twine, ligature; (adj, n, v) line, file; (n, v) string together; (adj, v) range; (v) penetrate thrive: (adj, v) prosper; (v) flourish, grow, advance, blossom, succeed, increase, bloom, get ahead, boom; (adj) luxuriate. ANTONYMS: (v) deteriorate, fail, languish, struggle, decrease throat: (n) orifice, pharynx, gorge, mouth, muzzle, nozzle, sucker, shaft, quarl, throat depth, nostril thrown: (adj) puzzled, confused, thrown and twisted, upset, disconcerted, unnerved, terrified, scared out of your wits, mystified, frightened; (n) reminder. ANTONYM: (adj) calm thunder: (adj, n, v) boom; (n, v) roar, bang, roll, bellow; (adj, n) peal; (adj, v) explode, detonate; (v) howl, rumble, fulminate thus: (adv) then, so, consequently, hence, thence, accordingly, as a result, ergo, thusly, for that reason, as thwarting: (n) defeat, foiling, precaution, prepossession; (adj) frustrative, frustrating, not parallel, oblique, perverse, mutually inverse; (v) obstruction tidings: (n) intelligence, information, message, report, word, advice, communication, dispute, wind, statement, tiding till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to tilting: (adj) slanting, leaning, sloping, oblique, lopsided, fighting; (n) single wheel tilting, shearing, overturning tire: (n, v) bore, jade; (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, harass, fag, weary, wear, pall, prostrate; (n) tyre. ANTONYMS: (v) interest, invigorate, energize tired: (adj, v) fatigued, weary, exhausted, stale; (adj) threadbare, commonplace, trite, banal, haggard, stock, jaded. ANTONYMS: (adj) invigorated, alert, refreshed, energetic, original, strong, awake, energized, lively, rested, relaxed

167 title: (n, v) call, style, designation, term, designate; (adj, n) claim, right; (n) caption, denomination, appellation, epithet. ANTONYM: (n) possession together: (adv) in concert, conjointly, at the same time, at once, simultaneously, mutually, in unison, all together, at the same moment; (adj) united, stable. ANTONYMS: (adv) separately, individually, independently, apart, alone; (adj) separate, upset, unstable, separated, imbalanced, scatterbrained told: (v) related, narrated; (adj) numbered, oral, spoken, legendary, verbal, manifest tomb: (n) sepulchre, sepulcher, crypt, pit, sepulture, vault, monument, entomb, mausoleum; (n, v) bury; (v) inter tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, dialect, clapper, glossa, natural language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) flowing tonight: (adv) this night took: (adj) taken; (v) receive topple: (v) collapse, tumble, fall, stumble, overthrow, upset, overturn, pitch, capsize, tumble down, oust. ANTONYMS: (v) place, put, straighten, install, right tops: (n) apex, pinnacle, pick; (adj) champion, elite, fabulous, leading, outstanding, uppermost, superb, superlative torch: (n) brand, light, flambeau, burner, great mullein, blowlamp, Verbascum Thapsus, flannel mullein, common mullein, blowtorch; (v) burn toss: (n, v) throw, fling, pitch, chuck, cast, flip; (v) agitate, hurl, shake, convulse, discard. ANTONYM: (v) catch tottering: (adj) unsteady, ramshackle, easily shaken, tottery, sick, rocky, broken, trembling, cracked; (v) drooping; (n) convulsion touch: (v) hit, affect, border, adjoin, strike, reach; (n, v) contact, stroke, tinge, regard, tap. ANTONYMS: (v) shrink, secrete, separate, diverge, abstain, leave; (n) lot touching: (adj, v) affecting; (adj) poignant, pitiful, pathetic, adjacent, adjoining, emotional; (n) touch, contact; (prep) concerning, about. ANTONYMS: (adj) unaffecting, everyday, heartwarming, unmoving, heartbreaking, emotionless, unemotional,

168 impassive touchstone: (n) standard, criterion, benchmark, measure, norm, gauge, check, yardstick, measuring stick, reagent; (n, v) test tour: (n, v) excursion, expedition, voyage, travel, ride, tramp; (n) circuit, round, jaunt, passage, trip tourney: (n) competition, tilt, elimination tournament, round robin, Turney, meet toward: (prep) to, towards, approaching, headed for, just before, of, in the direction of; (adv, prep) on; (adv) about, around, by. ANTONYMS: (prep) from, away towards: (prep) to, facing, until, opposite to, till, unto, upon; (n, prep) against; (adv) about, by; (n) at towers: (n) edifice town: (adj) municipal, urban; (n) borough, township, village, burgh, burg, municipality, townspeople, metropolis; (adj, n) community. ANTONYMS: (adj) country, private tractable: (adj, prep) docile; (adj) obedient, ductile, tame, gentle, yielding, manageable; (adj, v) pliable, flexible, pliant, plastic. ANTONYMS: (adj) intractable, unmanageable, unruly, rebellious trade: (n, v) deal, exchange, swap, merchandise, switch, barter, change; (adj, n) business; (n) commerce, profession, occupation. ANTONYMS: (n) purchase, entertainment, fun, pastime; (v) buy, wholesale train: (v) aim, exercise, direct, educate, tame, prepare, school; (n, v) coach, trail, tail; (n) chain. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, forget; (n) head training: (n) instruction, teaching, preparation, breeding, practice, exercise, nurture, discipline, drill, schooling, experience traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalist, patriot travail: (n, v) labor, toil, labour, grind, childbirth, confinement; (v) drudge, moil; (n) effort, sweat, exertion travel: (adj, n, v) go, pass, run; (adj, v) proceed; (v) roam, move, ride, sail; (n) stroke, tour; (n, v) voyage. ANTONYMS: (v) remain, settle traveller: (n) passenger, tourist, wanderer, voyager, wayfarer,

Pericles mover, itinerant, courier, entrant, swimmer, outlander travels: (n) actions, expedition treason: (n) treachery, perfidy, high treason, sabotage, lese majesty, traitorousness, subversiveness, duplicity; (adj, n) disloyalty, sedition, prodition. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity treasure: (n) gem, fortune, riches, funds; (n, v) hoard, prize, store; (v) cherish, appreciate; (adj, n) jewel, precious stone. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, disparage, scorn, neglect; (n) dud, poverty tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v) quiver, shudder, thrill, palpitate; (adj, v) totter, quake; (n) throb; (v) flutter, quail, falter. ANTONYMS: (v) steady, calm trim: (adj, v) tidy, spruce; (adj, n, v) dress; (n, v) cut, clip, garnish, lop; (adj) neat, orderly; (v) shave, embellish. ANTONYMS: (adj) scruffy, unkempt, sloppy, large, chubby, disorderly, overweight; (v) lengthen, develop, expand, lose triumph: (v) exult, prevail, crow, rejoice, succeed; (n, v) glory, win, joy; (n) victory, conquest, exultation. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, sorrow, unhappiness, dud, sadness, loss, flop; (v) fail, lose, forfeit trojan: (n) Dardan, Trojan horse; (adj) Troic trouble: (n, v) inconvenience, pain, bother, disquiet, disorder, worry, annoy, fuss, afflict, torment; (adj, n) difficulty. ANTONYMS: (v) please, help, assist, aid, placate, soothe, comfort; (n) fitness, pleasure, advantage, ease troubler: (n) inciter, fomenter, trouble maker, trickster, tricker, rioter, instigant, hoaxer, hellhound, bad hat, instigator troubles: (n) dilemma, evils, harms, ills true: (adj, n) genuine, authentic; (adj) right, faithful, even, correct, accurate, honest, straight, truthful; (adj, v) actual. ANTONYMS: (adj) inaccurate, untrue, bogus, untrustworthy, unrealistic, mythical, fraudulent, faithless, disloyal; (adv) wrongly, dishonestly trumpet: (n) horn, cornet, bugle, clarion, trump, brass, trombone; (v) proclaim, promulgate, show off, blare trust: (n, v) credit, rely, hope; (n) confidence, faith, reliance, belief,

cartel, assurance; (v) believe, confide. ANTONYMS: (n, v) distrust, doubt, mistrust; (v) disbelieve, keep, hold, despair; (n) disbelief, suspicion, independence truth: (n) exactness, actuality, sincerity, verity, fidelity, fact, correctness, genuineness, faithfulness, certainty, honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, lie, inaccuracy, idealism, falsity, disloyalty, fallacy, invention tumbled: (adj) disordered tune: (n) song, strain, air, harmony, note, concord; (v) adjust, regulate, string, tune up; (n, v) chant. ANTONYMS: (n) silence; (v) untune turbulent: (adj, n) tempestuous, rough, stormy, boisterous, rude; (adj) furious, disorderly, violent, wild, noisy, riotous. ANTONYMS: (adj) peaceful, untroubled, manageable, moderate, obedient, settled, still, relaxed, orderly, mild turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil, round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout; (v) revolve. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, Miss, stagnation; (v) unbend turned: (adj) off, curved, rancid, twisted, false, bent, altered, sullen, having inflections, versed, glowering. ANTONYM: (adj) unturned turning: (n) turn, revolution, bend, rotation, deviation, gyration, conversion, veering; (adj) rotating, revolving, rotary twelve: (adj, n) dozen, XII; (n) boxcars, large integer twelvemonth: (n) calendar year, civil year, financial year, common year, amount of time, time period, period of time, bissextile year, class, yr, period twice: (adv) doubly, bis, two times, in two ways, once more; (adj) twenty twill: (adj, v) curl, wrinkle; (adj) corded, crisp; (v) braid, plexus, felt, plat, plait, mesh; (n) cloth twin: (adj, n, v) duplicate; (n, v) match, mate, pair, equal, fellow, parallel; (n) counterpart; (adj) dual, matching; (v) couple. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlike, singular, single, different tyrannous: (adj) tyrannical, despotic, autocratic, domineering, undisputed, arbitrary, absolute, unmerciful, imperious, authoritarian, dictatorial tyre: (n) band, belt, girth, baldric,

William Shakespeare girdle, wheel, girt, cingle, zodiac, Sur, zone unable: (adj) incapable, ineffective, incompetent, impotent, helpless, ineffectual, inefficient, inadequate, unqualified, unfit, not able. ANTONYMS: (adj) able, capable, competent, eligible, powerful unborn: (adj) uncreated, unmade, unproduced, unconceived, unbred, not begotten, unbegotten; (n) posterity. ANTONYM: (adj) born under: (adj) lower, down, nether, bottom, inferior, low, subject; (adv, prep) beneath, underneath; (adv) downstairs, infra. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over, above; (adv) primary, higher, major understand: (v) interpret, hear, see, catch, learn, translate, grasp, construe, gather; (adj, v) realize, take. ANTONYMS: (v) misinterpret, misconstrue, misunderstand, disbelieve, mistake, reject, deny, Miss undertake: (v) attempt, take on, try, covenant, guarantee, accept, tackle, contract, take, begin, engage. ANTONYMS: (v) forego, abstain, forget, relinquish undo: (v) loosen, open, annul, cancel, separate, disentangle, untie, unfold, reverse, disconnect, nullify. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, close, do, wrap, tangle, validate, knot, lock, permit, unite, approve undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand, decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v) accursed, to be pitied, devoted unfriendly: (adj) inimical, distant, adverse, antagonistic, unkind, cold, inhospitable, icy; (adj, adv) chilly; (adj, v) unfavorable; (adv) hostilely. ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, welcoming, warm, amiable, approachable, sociable, hospitable, kindly, nice, outgoing, pleasant ungentle: (adj) ignoble, rude, wild, ungainly, untitled, boisterous, bluff, lowborn unhappy: (adj) gloomy, dismal, depressed, melancholy, sad, miserable, sorrowful, distressed, disconsolate, infelicitous, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, cheerful, satisfied, pleased, glad, euphoric, fortunate, contented, joyful, timely, lucky unholy: (adj) wicked, sinful, unhallowed, profane, fiendish,

impious, diabolic, infernal, unsanctified, evil; (adv) wickedly. ANTONYMS: (adj) reasonable, pious, godly, sensible, religious unknown: (adj, n) secret, alien; (adj) hidden, unfamiliar, unidentified, obscure, nameless, foreign, anonymous; (n) stranger, foreigner. ANTONYMS: (adj) familiar, recognized, famous, documented, identified, transparent; (n) native unless: (adv) but, if, yet, besides, except with, further; (adv, conj) save; (conj) without, if not; (n) provisionally; (adj) not necessary unlicensed: (adj) unlawful, unlicenced, unaccredited, illicit, unauthorized unprofitable: (adj) profitless, fruitless, futile, inutile, disadvantageous, unfruitful, barren, idle, vain, uneconomic, unproductive. ANTONYMS: (adj) fruitful, lucrative unquiet: (adj) restless, anxious, nervous, turbulent, unsettled, disturbed, fussy, tumultuous; (v) movable, saltatory, shifting. ANTONYM: (adj) quiet unspotted: (adj) unblemished, unstained, unsoiled, stainless, pure, blameless, immaculate, undefaced, undeformed, spotless, untarnished unthankfulness: (n) thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, ungratefulness until: (prep, v) to; (conj, prep) unto; (adj) up to; (adv) so far, yet, before, meanwhile; (prep) pending, while, during, awaiting untimely: (adj) early, unseasonable, inopportune, inappropriate, awkward, immature, previous, ill timed, inconvenient, improper, belated. ANTONYMS: (adj) timely, appropriate, opportune, convenient, overdue unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before untold: (adj) infinite, incalculable, innumerable, vast, uncounted, unnumbered, unlimited, endless; (v) unsaid, untalked of, unpublished. ANTONYMS: (adj) little, minor, small, tiny, open, slight unwholesome: (adj) noxious, harmful, noisome, morbid, injurious, detrimental, sickly, insalubrious, corrupting, diseased, damaging. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, decent, wholesome, pleasant unworthy: (adj) undeserving, base,

169 disgraceful, ignoble, low, contemptible, despicable, ugly, unmerited, unseemly, shameful. ANTONYMS: (adj) deserving, valuable, honorable, estimable, reputable upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up, onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at upside: (n) crest, crown, poll, top side, upper side, pate, round top, acme, summit, superlative, teetotum used: (adj) exploited, old, accustomed, worn, spent, victimized, wont, tried, decrepit, second hand, exhausted. ANTONYMS: (adj) new, unused, spanking, misused usurp: (v) arrogate, seize, appropriate, take over, commandeer, capture, borrow, confiscate, take, grab; (adj) violate. ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, relinquish utmost: (adj, n) maximum, extreme, uttermost, furthermost, best, highest; (adj, adv) farthest; (adj, v) supreme; (adj) last, furthest; (adj, n, v) greatest. ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, worst utterly: (adv) completely, absolutely, totally, entirely, extremely, altogether, expressly, purely, dead, fully, wholly. ANTONYMS: (adv) partly, uncertain, slightly, incompletely, hardly, somewhat vail: (n) vale; (v) bounty, help, Easter offering, oblation, Christmas box, alms, dole, donative, largess, Peter Pence vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, ineffectual, unproductive, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, humble, useful, responsible, worthwhile, effective value: (adj, n, v) price; (n) cost, importance, consequence; (n, v) rate, appraise, measure; (v) appreciate, evaluate, esteem, assess. ANTONYMS: (n) disadvantage, futility, uselessness, insignificance, detriment, inefficiency, inferiority; (v) scorn, disregard, disrespect, hate vast: (adj) large, immense, spacious, extensive, immeasurable, enormous, gigantic, wide, boundless, colossal, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) narrow, tiny, cramped, small, miniature, affordable, bounded, insignificant,

170 slight, shallow, restricted vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal, retaliation, requital, avengement, wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance; (n, v) avenge, resentment. ANTONYMS: (n) forgiveness, acceptance vessel: (n) ship, pot, jar, duct, vas, boat, craft, container, bowl, barrel, canal vestal: (adj) chaste, virginal, virtuous, pure, saturated, not mixed, good, sinless, undiluted; (n) woman, nun viands: (n) provender, victuals, provisions, food, sustenance, commissariat, larder, cates, diet, nourishment, edible vice: (adj, n) imperfection, defect, blemish, failing, frailty; (n) corruption, sin, evil, immorality, iniquity, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) asset, strength, propriety, virtue, righteousness, goodness, good, honesty; (adj) chief victory: (n) conquest, success, mastery, superiority, subjugation, win, laugher, achievement, checkmate, expugnation, fall. ANTONYMS: (n) defeat, loss, beating, failure, overthrow, forfeit view: (n, v) sight, scene, regard, opinion, judgment, prospect, outlook, thought; (adj, v) observe, see; (n) idea. ANTONYMS: (v) disbelieve, mistrust vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, honorable, good, delightful, admirable, noble villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit, crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion. ANTONYMS: (n) heroine, hero viol: (n) bowed stringed instrument, string, bass viol violence: (n) force, fury, fierceness, strength, vehemence, intensity, ferocity, impetuosity, might, outrage, power. ANTONYMS: (n) peacefulness, peace, passivity, nonviolence, friendliness, defense, indifference, orderliness, calmness, meekness viper: (n) adder, snake, asp, cerastes, reptile, horned viper, asp viper, basilisk, beast, brute, cockatrice virgin: (adj) pure, new, chaste, innocent, fresh, untouched, intact, virginal; (adj, n) vestal; (n) maid,

Pericles girl. ANTONYMS: (adj) defiled, sullied virginal: (adj) pure, chaste, vestal, virtuous, innocent, intact, spotless, fresh, maidenly; (n) Ebenezer, pair of virginals virginity: (n) maidenhood, pucelage, chastity, purity, maidenhead, pudicity, virtue, freshness, virginhood, innocence, spirit virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence, quality, attribute; (n) honor, goodness, honesty, morality, decency, probity, efficacy. ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt, vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor, immorality, evil, demerit, inadequacy, disadvantage virtues: (n) brawn, sinew, qualities, nerve, manner, habit, disposition, custom virtuous: (adj) upright, pure, righteous, good, moral, just, honorable, honest, respectable, decent, pious. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sinful, corrupt, impure, unethical, decadent, degenerate, irreverent vision: (n) view, dream, imagination, daydream, outlook, specter, ghost, spirit, image, apparition; (n, v) fancy. ANTONYMS: (n) sightlessness, fact, actuality, blindness visit: (v) frequent, attend, call, view, gossip, jaw, inspect, haunt; (n, v) tour, chat; (n) sojourn visor: (n) eyeshade, peak, vizor, disguise, bill, vizard, shade, screen, armor plating, armor plate, head loupe vita: (n) memoir, resume voice: (n) speech, vox; (v) enunciate, pronounce, speak, say, vocalize, express, utter, articulate; (n, v) sound. ANTONYMS: (v) devoice, block volume: (n) size, book, magnitude, mass, dimension, intensity, capacity, amount, tome; (adj, n) quantity, deal. ANTONYMS: (n) quietness, softness voyage: (n, v) travel, cruise, tour; (n) trip, passage, expedition, flight, crossing, quest; (v) sail, navigate wages: (n) pay, wage, earnings, reward, stipend, allowance, hire, remuneration, income, payoff, compensation wait: (n, v) pause, hold, stop; (v) expect, anticipate, stay, await, lurk, ambush, remain; (adj, v) tarry.

ANTONYMS: (n) act, continuation, doing; (v) interrupt, leave, begin, depart, continue; (intj) hurry walk: (adj, n, v) step; (n, v) gait, ramble, march, pace, hike, course, saunter, stroll, roam; (n) path. ANTONYMS: (v) run, ride, stride wandering: (adj) itinerant, nomadic, erratic, rambling, errant, migratory; (adj, v) stray, vagrant, vagabond, unsettled; (n) peregrination. ANTONYM: (adj) resident wanderingly: (adv) rovingly, vagabondly, errantly, migratorily, windingly, unsettledly, nomadically, lostly, ramblingly, travelingly, incoherently want: (n, v) lack, desire, miss, wish; (n) poverty, deficiency, deprivation, famine, necessity, destitution, shortage. ANTONYMS: (n, v) hate; (n) glut, despise, luxury, option, prosperity, supply; (v) disinterest, answer wanting: (adj, v) missing; (adj) deficient, lacking, absent, defective, short, failing, insufficient, devoid, poor, incomplete. ANTONYMS: (adj) sufficient, satisfactory, adequate, full, present wants: (n) need, necessities warm: (adj) hot, affectionate, tender, ardent, cordial, fervent, lively, fond, loving, earnest, tepid. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, unfriendly, aloof, reserved, hostile, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unwelcoming, stale, offhand; (v) chill warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license, assure, sanction, empower; (n) authority, authorization, security; (v) justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) break; (v) debar wash: (adj, n, v) soak; (n, v) paint; (v) clean, scrub, mop, moisten, lave, scour, bathe; (n) washing, ablution. ANTONYM: (v) soil washed: (adj) wash, cleaner, colored, refined, wet, watery waste: (adj, n, v) spoil, damage; (adj, v) desolate; (n, v) squander, ruin, consume, ravage; (adj, n) refuse, trash; (v) exhaust, spend. ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, save, use, preserve, create, build; (n) saving, possessions, hoarding, development; (adj) cultivated water: (n) urine, sea, lake, ocean, moisture, juice, river; (n, v) wet; (v) moisten, soak, dampen. ANTONYMS: (v) dehydrate, dry watered: (adj) irriguous, dewy,

William Shakespeare watermarked, moist waters: (n) Clara Erskine Clement, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, Ethel waters, body of water, bodily fluid, boot watery: (adj) moist, diluted, wet, dilute, washy, thin, damp, fluid, aqueous, weak, insipid. ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, solid, dry, soft, dehydrated, lively, dark, clear, thick, hard waves: (n) brine, effect, salt water, deep, main, ocean, undulation, breakers, influence, emission, offing ways: (n) behavior, process, shipway, slipway, means, childbearing, conduct, construction, demeanor, direction, traveling wayward: (adj) contrary, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn, intractable, unruly, capricious; (adj, n) freakish, crotchety, wanton, fanciful. ANTONYMS: (adj) controllable, good, manageable, biddable wear: (n) clothing, clothes, apparel, attire, garb; (v) endure, fatigue, waste, bear, tire, fray. ANTONYMS: (v) refresh, reject, rebuild, please, freshen, disrobe, delight, cheer, refuse; (n) improvement weary: (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, tire out; (adj) tired, exhausted, fatigued, aweary, beat, languid; (n, v) jade, bore. ANTONYMS: (adj) energetic, fresh, lively, untiring, hopeful, refreshed; (v) refresh, enliven, energize, activate, rally weave: (v) twine, braid, knit, entwine, interweave, wind, waver, plait, fabricate, inweave; (n) texture. ANTONYMS: (v) separate, unweave, unpick wedded: (adj, v) marital, connubial, matrimonial, conjugal, wed; (adj) nuptial, bridal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob, blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet, whimper; (n) tear weeping: (adj) tearful, lachrymose, dolourous, dolorous; (n, v) lament, lamentation; (v) wailing; (n) sobbing, tears, cry; (adj, n) howling. ANTONYM: (n) celebration welcome: (adj) pleasant, acceptable, pleasing, agreeable; (n, v) accept; (n) hospitality, reception; (v) receive, greet, invite, hail. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwelcome, unwanted, unacceptable, displeasing, disagreeable, unpleasant; (v) reject,

evict, bar; (n) unfriendliness, goodbye wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab went: (v) walked, proceeded westerly: (adj) western, westbound, hillbilly; (n) west wind, prevailing westerly, wester; (adv) westwards; (v) to the west. ANTONYM: (adv) easterly whale: (n) monster, leviathan, blower, behemoth, hulk, heavyweight, narwhal, narwal; (v) thrash, beat; (adj) cachalot when: (adv, conj) once, as soon as; (adv) then, because, than, since, after; (conj) although, while, if; (prep) during whence: (adv) wherefrom, hence, because, for, why, wherefore, how, then, then thence so, how comes it, how happens it where: (adv) there, here, wherever, whither, in which, wherein, in what; (adv, pron) anywhere; (pron) everywhere; (n) point, spot whereat: (adv) upon which wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore; (adv, n) why; (n) reason, proof; (adv) accordingly, consequently, so, wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then wherein: (adv) in what, in which, where whereto: (adv) which, whither whether: (pron) where while: (adv, conj) whereas, as, although; (n) time, spell, period, moment, interval; (adv) when; (conj) though; (prep) during whiles: (n) while whip: (n, v) lash, strap, goad; (v) flog, flagellate, beat, punish, thrash, trounce, stir, wallop. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, return whipped: (v) whipt whipping: (n) flagellation, beating, thrashing, licking, lashing, flogging, overcasting, debacle, slaughter, overlocking; (adj) snappy whipstock: (n) whip handle, whipstalk, deflection wedge whisper: (n, v) murmur, hum, mumble, suggestion, hint, inkling; (v) breathe, hiss; (n) rustle, trace, breath. ANTONYM: (n) information white: (adj, n) pale; (adj) clean, blank, snowy, ashen, wan, achromatic, pure, pallid; (v) whiten; (n) Caucasian. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) black; (adj) dark, rosy, red, dirty; (v) blacken

171 whole: (adj, v) entire; (adj, n) total, integral, sum, aggregate, well; (adj, adv, n) all; (adj) complete, healthy, intact, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) incomplete, broken, partial, imperfect, unhealthy, deficient, destroyed, fractional, impaired, half, sick wholesome: (adj) healthy, beneficial, salubrious, healthful, salutary, sound, good, nutritious, nourishing, pure, hale. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwholesome, unhealthy, impure, indecent, sordid, warped, tainted, decadent, deadly, unsavory whoso: (pron) whosoever wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious, evil, vile, depraved, mischievous, immoral, unholy, nasty, naughty. ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, pure, pious, moral, kind, admirable, kindhearted, helpful, decent, assisting, aiding wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, married woman, spouse, consort, helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, viscountess wight: (n) human, soul, person, fellow, brute, someone, somebody, puppet, Isle of Wight, gaffer, elf wild: (adj, n, v) waste, desert; (adj, v) fierce, violent, reckless, raging; (adj) boisterous, untamed, stormy, rude, desolate. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, orderly, manageable, sane, domestic, cultivated, tame, restrained, mild, sensible, passive willingly: (adv) readily, voluntarily, cheerfully, spontaneously, helpfully, disposedly, actively, openly, obligingly, eagerly; (adj, adv) freely. ANTONYMS: (adv) grudgingly, reluctantly, uncooperatively, unenthusiastically wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) flourish, rise, rally wind: (n, v) twist, turn; (v) meander, curl, bend, twine, curve, weave, crook; (n) air, gust. ANTONYMS: (v) unwind; (n) breeze wine: (n) vino, spirits, beer, saki, sake, Macon, maconnais, alcohol, liquor, dessert wine; (adj) mauve winged: (adj) swift, rapid, speedy, quick, flying, alate, sublime, lofty, alated, aligerous, composed winter: (n) wintertime, season, time of year, hiems, frost, chill; (adj) wintery, wintry; (v) spend. ANTONYM: (n) heat

172 wisdom: (n) judiciousness, knowledge, sapience, sagacity, sense, prudence, discernment, insight, learning, depth, reasonableness. ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity, folly, inexperience, ignorance, flippancy, banality wise: (adj) reasonable, sensible, sound, rational, sagacious, intelligent, prudent, shrewd, discreet; (adj, n) knowing; (n) method. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwise, stupid, ignorant, mistaken, illogical, reckless, naive, irrational, dense wish: (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) want, hope, need, inclination, longing, aspiration, aim; (v) like, choose; (n) pleasure. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) hatred, coercion, disinclination, aversion wishes: (n) desires, requirements, requests, needs, will withal: (adv) nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, even so, all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, enough withhold: (v) reserve, keep, suppress, deny, retain, hold, detain, restrain, abstain, check; (adj, v) stint. ANTONYMS: (v) transmit, release, show, lavish, add within: (adv, n, prep) inside; (adv, prep) in; (adv) indoors, internally, inwardly, inly; (adj, n) interior; (prep) into, on, between; (adj) inwards. ANTONYMS: (prep) beyond, out without: (adv, n, prep) outside; (adj, adv) except; (adj) lacking, save barring; (prep) out of, sans; (n) minus, provisionally; (adv) save, beyond; (adv, prep) besides. ANTONYMS: (prep) with, having; (adv) inside witness: (n, v) testimony, attest, evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness, onlooker, observer; (v) observe, notice, see, view. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, participate, refute wives: (n) woman woeful: (adj) sad, lamentable, sorrowful, pitiful, wretched, pitiable, doleful, woebegone, deplorable, piteous, regrettable. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, joyful, glad, praiseworthy, laudable woman: (n) girl, female, lady, dame, madam, mistress, matron, maid, gentlewoman, Donna, petticoat. ANTONYMS: (n) man, gentleman womb: (n) belly, nursery, nest,

Pericles intestines, guts, vitals, bowels, chitterings, cradle, entrails, viscera women: (n) sex, gentle sex wonder: (adj, n) prodigy; (n) astonishment, admiration, amazement, surprise, miracle, phenomenon, muse; (v) admire, reflect, question. ANTONYMS: (n) expectation, belief, disapproval; (v) know, believe, anticipate, decide wondrous: (adj) marvelous, miraculous, marvellous, astonishing, tremendous, fantastic, phenomenal, extraordinary, rattling; (adv) wonderfully, marvellously wooden: (adj) wood, stilted, awkward, expressionless, inept, clumsy, dead, impassive, woody, timbered, made of wood. ANTONYMS: (adj) flexible, bending, pliable, emotional, natural, relaxed, expressive wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling, suit of clothes, the soft impeachment, entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case; (adj) amatory word: (n) news, tidings, password, expression, report, vocable, statement, term; (v) formulate, phrase; (n, v) advice words: (n) speech, expression, row, text, fracas, argument; (n, v) altercation, squabble, tiff, dispute, quarrel working: (adj) practical, active, busy, in action, in force; (n) operation, play, agency, movement; (adj, n) running, functioning. ANTONYMS: (adj) passive, unemployed, inoperative, inactive, idle, ineffective works: (n) plant, workings, mill, manufactory, deeds, whole caboodle, kit and caboodle, kit and boodle, industrial plant, full treatment, distillery world: (n) cosmos, nature, creation, earth, public, sphere, society, realm, globe, macrocosm; (adj) global worm: (v) squirm, wriggle, twist, spiral, helix, writhe; (n) helminth, maggot; (adj) emmet, midge, fly worse: (adj) worser, subordinate, waur, worsened, warre, unrelieved, minor, lesser, junior, poorer; (n) badness. ANTONYMS: (adj) improved, healthier, higher worst: (v) whip, trounce, defeat, overcome, vanquish, pip, rack up; (adj, v) best, rout; (adj) floor, lick. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) best; (adj) highest, first, secondary

worth: (adj, n) value, dignity; (n) cost, virtue, price, importance, excellence, quality, import, goodness, benefit. ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, disadvantage, hopelessness, detriment, disgrace, inferiority, triviality, uselessness, inefficiency worthily: (adv) excellently, honorably, becomingly, praiseworthily, deservingly, splendidly, generously, meritoriously, virtuously, uprightly, goodly. ANTONYMS: (adv) badly, dishonorably worthy: (adj) noble, good, meritorious, valuable, estimable, respectable, deserving, worthwhile, virtuous, honorable; (adj, n) celebrity. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, unrespected, disreputable, mediocre, petty, poor, unimpressive, insignificant, dishonorable, despicable; (n) nobody wreath: (n) crown, coronal, garland, chaplet, lei, circle, posy, fascia, cincture, girdle, laurels wreck: (n, v) smash, shipwreck, wrack; (v) damage, spoil, demolish, destroy, devastate; (n) crash, ruins, destruction. ANTONYMS: (v) build, preserve, create, repair, assist; (n) creation wrench: (n, v) pull, jerk, strain, turn, twist, tug, yank; (n) spanner; (v) distort, contort, force wrens: (n) warblers, Troglodytidae, tits, swallows, rooks, Passeriformes, order Passeriformes, finches, family Troglodytidae, etc, sparrows wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful, sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic, piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor, unhappy, forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) fine, strong, fortunate, overjoyed, nice, admirable, good, cheery, joyous, lucky, comfortable writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, judicial writ, injunction, order, act, prescription, scripture, writing, ukase writing: (n) script, print, composition, lettering, document, autograph, paper, record, inscription, authorship, handwriting wrong: (adj, n) evil, ill, injury, injustice; (adj, n, v) damage, injure; (adj) improper, false, incorrect, bad, inappropriate. ANTONYMS: (adj) correct, good, proper, honest, appropriate, just, true; (adv) correctly; (n) justice, virtue; (v) sympathize

William Shakespeare yield: (n, v) produce, return, allow, give; (v) surrender, concede, submit, give up, grant, cede; (n) output. ANTONYMS: (v) persevere, survive, stand, withstand, repel, reject, prevent, withhold, acquire, oppose, veto yielded: (v) yold, yolden yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, abroad, thither, further away, at that place; (adj) distant, yond, furious, fierce young: (n, v) offspring; (adj, n) juvenile; (adj) immature, fresh, adolescent, new, raw, baby, childish, early; (n) progeny. ANTONYMS: (adj) old, mature, adult, ripe, older, late; (adj, n) aged younger: (adj) Jr, little, petty, young, juvenile, Mickey Mouse, minor, minuscule, niggling, picayune, unskilled yours: (adj) own yourself: (adv) herself, themselves, itself, myself, ourselves, yourselves, physically

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