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Synonyms: commendation, sanction
Antonyms: disapproval, condemnation, censure
approbation
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Synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
Antonyms: intensify, aggrevate, exacerbate
assuage
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Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine
Antonyms: splinter group
coalition
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Synonyms: degeneration, corruption
Antonyms: rise, growth, development, maturation
decadence
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Synonyms: call forth, evoke, extract, educe
Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
elicit
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Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain
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Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain
expostulate
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Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original
hackneyed
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Synonyms: pause, lacuna
Antonyms: continuity, continuation
hiatus
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Synonyms: insinuation, intimation
Antonyms: direct statement
innuendo
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Synonyms: intervene, mediate
intercede
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Synonyms: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
Antonyms: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome
lurid
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Synonyms: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
Antonyms: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable
meritorious
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Synonyms: irritable, testy, waspish
Antonyms: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable
petulant
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Synonyms: perquisite, perk
prerogative
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Synonyms: narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive
Antonyms: cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded
provincial
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Synonyms: feign, pretend, exceed
simulate
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Synonyms: surpass, outstrip
transcend
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Synonyms: irritation, pique, annoyance
Antonyms: pleasure, delight, satisfaction
umbrage
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Synonyms: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy
Antonyms: gruff, blunt
unctuous
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