Ant. Narrative, text, assertion, proposition, statement.

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Announce. Proclaim, publish, report, herald, make known, state, reveal, tell, declare, communicate, promulgate, circulate, enunciate.

Ant. Suppress, secrete, hide, cover up, conceal, bury, withhold.

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Announcement. Notice, proclamation, declaration, advertisement, notification, manifesto, promulgation.

Ant. Suppression, concealment, secrecy, equivocation, ambiguity, insinuation.

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Annoyance. Trouble, discomfort, vexation, torment, infliction, nuisance, irritation.

Ant. Gratification, delight, ease, pleasure, relief.

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Annual, n. Yearly publication, year-book, annals; plant living but a year.

Ant. Perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.

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Annul. Cancel, abrogate, recall, repeal, revoke, countermand, reverse, rescind, abolish, nullify, supersede, invalidate.

Ant. Conserve, confirm, maintain, enact, establish.

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Anomalous. Abnormal, unnatural, irregular, peculiar, exceptional, aberrant, unusual, singular, eccentric, erratic.

Ant. Normal, regular, usual, ordinary, common, wonted.

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Anon. Soon, shortly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, directly, ere long; afterward, presently, again.

Ant. Herewith, now; already, previously.

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Anonymous. Nameless, unacknowledged, of unknown authorship.

Ant. Identified, authorized, authenticated, attested, signed.

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Answer, v. Reply, rejoin, respond; be accountable, responsible, or liable, go surety; correspond, be similar; do, serve, suit, pass; refute, defend; satisfy, fulfil.

Ant. Challenge, defy, question, interrogate, query, summon.

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Answerable. Refutable, responsible, amenable, liable, accountable; corresponding, correlative, suitable, proportionate.

Ant. Independent, irresponsible, irrefutable; unsuitable, dissimilar, different.

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Antagonism. Opposition, contradiction, hostility, animosity, enmity.

Ant. Amity, alliance, association.

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Antecedent, a. Preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, anterior, precursory.

Ant. Subsequent, posterior, sequent, following.

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Antedate. Date before the true time; anticipate, forestall, foretaste.

Ant. Postdate, follow, succeed, supervene.

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Anticipate. Forestall, expect, foretaste, antedate, forecast, apprehend, hope for, look forward to.

Ant. Postdate, follow; reflect upon, recall, recollect, remember; despair of, doubt, dread, fear.

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Anticipation. Expectation, prospect, hope, trust, contemplation, abeyance, foreboding, apprehension, presentiment; prescience, prevision, forethought.

Ant. Realization, consummation, despair, enjoyment, surprise, doubt, dread, wonder, fear.

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Antipathy. Repugnance, repulsion, aversion, detestation, abhorrence, hatred, hostility, loathing.

Ant. Attraction, affinity, congeniality, sympathy, harmony.

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Antiquated. Quaint, obsolete, bygone, ancient, archaic, old-fashioned.

Ant. Modern, modish, new, recent, stylish, fashionable, fresh.

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Antiquity. Ancient times, eld, early days; ancients, people of early days; great age; (pl.) relics of ancient days, archeology.

Ant. Modernity; futurity, eventuality, posterity; the present, to-day.

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Anxiety. Perplexity, apprehension, care, concern, solicitude, worry, dread, trouble, foreboding, misgiving, eagerness, diffidence.

Ant. Ease, confidence, contentment, apathy, acquiescence, calmness, nonchalance, assurance.

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Apathy. Stoicism, calmness, composure, lethargy, unconcern, indifference, insensibility, immobility, quietude, phlegm, stillness.

Ant. Fury, frenzy, susceptibility, sensitiveness, anxiety, excitement, agitation, feeling, passion, vehemence, emotion.

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Ape, v. Mimic, imitate, counterfeit, copy, affect, personate, represent.

Ant. Vary, modify, change.

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Aperture. Opening, hole, gap, rift, chasm, loophole, orifice, cleft.

Ant. Closure, blank wall; seclusion, imperviousness.

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Apex. Acme, vertex, pinnacle, summit.

Ant. Base, nadir, foot, root.

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Aphorism. Adage, maxim, proverb, saying, dictum, apothegm, saw.

Ant. Lecture, disquisition, discourse, sermon.

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