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KEY: Adulation.

SYN: Flattery, compliment, sycophancy, courtship, incense, praise, blandishment, fawning, cringing.

ANT: Detraction, obloquy, defamation, calumny, traducement, sarcasm, ridicule, satire, bespatterment.

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KEY: Adult.

SYN: Man, woman.

ANT: Youth, stripling, boy, child, infant.

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KEY: Adulterate.

SYN: Debase, corrupt, deteriorate, vitiate, contaminate.

ANT: Make pure, genuine, undeteriorate.

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KEY: Adulterated.

SYN: Impure, ingenuine, spurious, concocted, mixed, falsified, deteriorated, garbled, vitiated.

ANT: Pure, genuine, original, unmixed, unadulterated, undeteriorated, sound.

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KEY: Adumbration.

SYN: Shadow, foreshadowing, presage, prognostic, delineation, premonition, hint, sketch, prototype, suggestion.

ANT: Body, substance, fulfillment, realization, substantiation, antitype.

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KEY: Advance \v.\

SYN: Propel, elevate, promote, further, lend, propagate, progress, increase, prosper, rise.

ANT: Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw, recall, depress, degrade, suppress, oppose, retreat, decrease.

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KEY: Advancement, [See ADVANCE].

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KEY: Advantage.

SYN: Gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good, avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition.

ANT: Loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback.

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KEY: Advent.

SYN: Approach, arrival, accession, coming.

ANT: Departure, exit, exodus, retirement, relinquishment, quittance.

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KEY: Adventitious.

SYN: Extrinsic, redundant, superfluous, adscititious irregular, casual, imported.

ANT: Regular, proper, pertinent, essential, appropriate, necessary, Intrinsic.

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KEY: Adventure.

SYN: Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance.

ANT: Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course.

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KEY: Adventurous.

SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant, fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous.

ANT: Timid, unenterprising, inadventurous, cowardly, nervous, hesitating, cautious.

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KEY: Adversary.

SYN: Antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant.

ANT: Accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally, accomplice.

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KEY: Adverse.

SYN: Opposed to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite, conflicting, contrary, unfavorable.

ANT: Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky.

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KEY: Adversity.

SYN: Ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow.

ANT: Good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement.

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KEY: Advert to.

SYN: Refer to, allude to, notice, remark, glance at, regard, touch upon, hint at.

ANT: Ignore, pass, drop, omit, overlook.

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KEY: Advertent.

SYN: Attentive, regardful, mindful, watchful, thoughtful, observant, considerate.

ANT: Inattentive, inadvertent, casual, thoughtless, heedless, inobservant, inconsiderate.

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KEY: Advertise.

SYN: Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim, promulge.

ANT: Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misinform.

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KEY: Advice, [See ADVISE].

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KEY: Advise.

SYN: Admonish, warn, deliberate, counsel, persuade, urge, prompt, instigate, incite, instruct, acquaint, inform.

ANT: Dissuade, deter, expostulate, remonstrate, prohibit, inhibit, restrain.

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KEY: Advisable.

SYN: Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent, beneficial, profitable.

ANT: inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable, unprofitable.

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KEY: Advocate \n.\

SYN: Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer, defender, maintainer.

ANT: Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer.