ANT: Timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome, unenterprising.

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KEY: Audacity.

SYN: Boldness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, hardihood.

ANT: Caution, self-preservation, timidity, calculation, forethought, foresight, diffidence, inadventurousness.

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KEY: Audience.

SYN: Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception, interview.

ANT: Soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe.

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KEY: Augment, [See ENLARGE].

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KEY: Augmentation.

SYN: Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply, enhancement, addition, acquisition, improvement.

ANT: Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal, reservation, expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration, impoverishment, reduction, curtailment.

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KEY: Augury.

SYN: Prophecy, prediction, divination, conjecture, omen, prognostication.

ANT: Experience, science, observation.

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KEY: August \a.\

SYN: Majestic, dignified, stately, noble, pompous, imposing, grand, solemn, exalted.

ANT: Mean, undignified, unimposing, common, vulgar, despicable, paltry, unnoticeable, beggarly, commonplace.

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KEY: auspicious.

SYN: Propitious, lucky, favorable, encouraging, satisfactory, successful, hopeful, promising, happy, golden, fortunate, opportune, prosperous.

ANT: Unpropitious, unfavorable, discouraging, unsatisfactory, inauspicious, unpromising, abortive, hopeless.

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KEY: Austere.

SYN: Hard, rigid, stern, severe, morose, unrelenting, unyielding, strict, rigorous, harsh, sour, relentless.

ANT: Mild, affable, kindly, tender, feeling, bland, indulgent, genial.

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KEY: Authentic.

SYN: Genuine, veritable, reliable, real, original, trustworthy, not

spurious, true, legitimate, certain, accepted, current, received.

ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded, rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous, fictitious.

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KEY: Authenticate.

SYN: Confirm, settle, establish, verify, substantiate, identify.

ANT: Contravene, disprove, disestablish, refute, upset.

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KEY: Author.

SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause, constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer, perpetrator, doer.

ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser.

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KEY: Authoritative.

SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent, dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic, commanding.

ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient, persuasive.

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KEY: Authority.

SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness, conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction, jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway, sufferance, supremacy, dominion.

ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness, inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong.

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KEY: Authorize, [See EMPOWER].

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KEY: Autocracy, [See AUTOCRATIC].

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KEY: Autocratic.

SYN: Independent, arbitrary, despotic, irresponsible, absolute.

ANT: Dependent, subordinate, re sponsible, constitutional, limited.

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KEY: Auxiliary.

SYN: Helpful, abetting, aiding, accessory, promotive, conducive, assistant, ancillary, assisting, subsidiary, helping.

ANT: Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous, obstructive, retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome.

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KEY: Avail \v.\

SYN: Suffice, hold, stand, endure, answer, tell, profit, help, benefit, advantage, service, use, utility.

ANT: Fail, fall, disappoint, betray.

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KEY: Avail.

SYN: Profit, help, benefit, advantage, use, utility, service.

ANT: Disadvantage, hindrance, helplessness.

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KEY: Available.

SYN: Useful, appropriable, convertible, attainable, handy, conducive, applicable, procurable, advantage, helpful, profitable, suitable, serviceable.