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KEY: Alarming.

SYN: Terrible, fearful, frightful, portentous, ominous, threatening.

ANT: Soothing, assuring, encouraging, inviting, propitious, hopeful, alluring, enticing, attractive.

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KEY: Alert.

SYN: Active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready, wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively.

ANT: Slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish, inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy.

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KEY: Alien.

SYN: Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent.

ANT: Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane, akin, apropos, naturalized.

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KEY: Alienate.

SYN: Estrange, abalienate, transfer, wean, disaffect, convey.

ANT: Conciliate, retain, endear, entail, bind, secure.

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KEY: Alienation.

SYN: Insanity, aberration, hallucination, derangement, imbecility.

ANT: Sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality.

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KEY: Alight.

SYN: Perch, drop, descend, dismount.

ANT: Mount, ascend, spring, soar, start.

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KEY: Alike.

SYN: Resembling, similar, together, twin-fellow, analogous, identical, equal, equivalent, same, homogeneous, akin, equally.

ANT: Unlike, heterogeneous, apart, dissimilar, variously, differently, unequally.

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KEY: Aliment.

SYN: Food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance, nourishment.

ANT: Poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion.

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KEY: Alive.

SYN: Quick, living, breathing, warm, lively, vivacious, alert, existing, existent, safe, subsisting, active, brisk, animated.

ANT: Dead, departed, cold, lifeless, defunct, inanimate, dispirited, du.

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KEY: All.

SYN: Whole, complete, entire, total, every, integral, perfect, full.

ANT: [(preceding)], Some, part.

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KEY: Allay.

SYN: soothe, alleviate, repress, mitigate, quiet, moderate, appease, compose, soften, pacify, mollify, assuage, tranquilize, palliate, culm.

ANT: Excite, rouse, aggravate, stir, kindle, fan, impassion, provoke, incite.

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KEY: Allege.

SYN: Declare, affirm, assert, asseverate, depose, plead, cite, quote, assign, advance, maintain, say.

ANT: Contradict, gainsay, refute, deny, disprove, neutralize, quash, repel.

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KEY: Allegiance.

SYN: Subjection, obedience, loyalty, fealty, homage.

ANT: Disloyalty, rebellion, resistance, disaffection, malcontentment, treason.

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KEY: Allegory.

SYN: Parable, metaphor, fable, illustration, image.

ANT: History, fact, narrative.

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KEY: Alleviate.

SYN: Lighten, lessen, assuage, mitigate, soothe, moderate, relieve, remit, diminish.

ANT: Aggravate, enhance, increase, embitter, augment.

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KEY: Alliance.

SYN: Compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership, league, combination, coalition, confederation, friendship, relation, relationship.

ANT: Disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism, separation, estrangement, hostility.

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KEY: Allot.

SYN: Assign, grant, award, give, apportion, deal, dispense, parcel, distribute, divide, mete out, portion out.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, retain, appropriate, resume, misapportion, misdeal.

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KEY: Allotment.

SYN: Piece, assignment, parcel, award, apportionment.

ANT: Misappropriation, seizure, encroachment.

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KEY: Allow.

SYN: Concede, apportion, allot, assign, afford, tolerate, authorize, grant, remit, recognize, acknowledge, avow, confess, admit, permit, suffer, sanction, yield.

ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, refuse, deny, disallow, repudiate, protest, Withstand, resist, disapprove, reject.

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KEY: Allowance, [See ALLOW].

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KEY: Alloy.

SYN: Admixture, deterioration, adulteration, drawback, diminution, decrement, impairment, debasement, depreciation, disparagement.

ANT: Purity, genuineness, enhancement, integrity.

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KEY: Alloyed.

SYN: Mixed, deteriorated, impaired, diminished, adulterated.

ANT: Pure, absolute, perfect, complete, genuine, unmixed, unimpaired, undeteriorated, undiminished, unadulterated, enhanced.