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Carousal. Feast, festival, banquet, revel, debauch, wassail, orgies.

Ant. Fast, abstinence, starvation; temperance, moderation; self-denial.

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Carp. Cavil, find fault, object to, pick flaws, challenge, censure, hypercriticize.

Ant. Concede, admit, compliment, approve, applaud, acquiesce, assent.

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Carpet. Covering for floor; table or board (metaphorical), consideration, consultation.

Ant. Shelf (metaphorical), rejection, oblivion, disposal.

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Carry. Convey, move, transport, lift, bring, bear, transmit, support, sustain, take; impel, urge, push forward; signify, infer, involve, implicate.

Ant. Drop, let go, throw down, fall under, shake off; retard, impede; leave, be separate from.

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Case. Box; covering, sheathe; state, condition, plight, predicament; instance, example, occurrence; circumstance, event, contingency; suit, action, process, trial, cause; question, subject of discussion; form, inflection.

Ant. Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture; generalization, principle, universality.

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Cash. Coin, money, specie, currency, capital.

Ant. Paper money, greenbacks, bills.

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Cast. Hurl, throw, pitch, fling, drive, thrust, sling, toss; shed, lay aside; calculate, compute, reckon; found, form; direct, turn; assign, appoint, allot; impart, shed, diffuse, communicate.

Ant. Raise, elevate, erect; accept, approve, retain, carry; miscalculate; break, dismember, dissipate.

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Caste. Grade, rank, order, lineage, dignity, respect.

Ant. Abasement, degradation, disrepute, taboo, reproach, ostracism.

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Castigate. Whip, flagellate, cane.

Ant. Reward, encourage, caress, pat.

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Casual. Accidental, incidental, fortuitous, chance, contingent.

Ant. Regular, certain, fixed, ordinary, periodic, systematic.

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Casuistry. Sophistry, fallacy, quibble; refinement.

Ant. Reason, common sense, conscience.

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Catalogue. List, register, index, enrolment, entry, record, roll, inventory, schedule.

Ant. Non-registration, obliteration, oblivion, forgetfulness; non-entry, oversight, omission.

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Catastrophe. Revolution, disaster, mishap, misfortune, calamity, cataclysm, blow, visitation.

Ant. Victory, triumph, benefit, ovation, success, felicitation, blessing.

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Catch. Grasp, seize, clutch, capture, clasp, secure, snatch, take, arrest, ensnare, entrap, grip, lay hold; comprehend, apprehend, understand.

Ant. Lose, miss, fail of, let go, give up, release, restore.

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Categorical. Plain, absolute, distinct, positive, declaratory, affirmative.

Ant. Obscure, ambiguous, dubious, hypothetical, contingent, mystical, enigmatical.

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Category. Class, division, order, rank; universal aspect, primitive relation.

Ant. Essence, truth, being, substance, nature.

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Causality. Causation, potentiality, eventuality, operativeness.

Ant. Counteractivity, barrenness, sterility; finality.

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Cause. Agent, origin, source, creator, spring; reason, power; designer, antecedent, originator, author, producer; condition, principle.

Ant. Effect, result, end, production, issue, accomplishment, development, consequence, creation, fruit, event, outcome, outgrowth.

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Caution. Care, heed, wariness, circumspection, forethought, discretion; warning, admonition, advice, counsel.

Ant. Temerity, heedlessness, unguardedness, improvidence, imprudence.

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Cavalier, a. Arrogant, haughty, overbearing, insolent, disdainful.

Ant. Courteous; subservient, servile; civil, polite.

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Cavil. Carp, object, censure.

Ant. Approve, allow, concede.

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Cavity. Opening, gap, aperture, hole, fissure.

Ant. Obstruction, filling.

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Cease. End, finish, desist, leave off, quit, stop, refrain, abstain, discontinue, pause, terminate.

Ant. Begin, commence, continue, originate, inaugurate, start, set going, set in operation.