DR. FAUSTUS Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Christopher Marlowe
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Dr. Faustus Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Christopher Marlowe
PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.
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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 DRAMATIS PERSONAE ..................................................................................................... 3 THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS ............................................................. 5 GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 71
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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1 Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult, and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to
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DRAMATIS
%PERSONAE
Chorus Faustus Wagner Good Angel Evil Angel Valdes Cornelius First Scholar Second Scholar Mephostophilis Robin, a Clown Lucifer Beelzebub Pride, Covetousness, Wrath, Gluttony, Sins. Envy, Sloth, Lechery, The Pope The Cardinal of Lorraine a Friar Ralph, a clown a Vintner The Emperor a Knight Alexander
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Thesaurus clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor, harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic, comic, acrobat; (v) antic.
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his Paramour a Horse-corser The Duke of Vanholt Duchess Third Scholar Helen (of Greece) an Old Man, Devils, Friars, and Attendants
Thesaurus clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor, harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic, comic, acrobat; (v) antic.
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THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS
FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604.% [Enter CHORUS.] CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians; Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt her heavenly verse: Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, And speak for Faustus in his infancy. Now is he born, his parents base of stock, In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up.
Thesaurus audacious: (adj) brash, arrogant, barefaced, bold, daring, impudent, intrepid, brave, shameless, enterprising, insolent. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, timid, cautious, polite, reserved, meek, humble, fearful, discreet, respectful. courts: (n) judges. dalliance: (n) delay, play, flirt, flirting, billing and cooing, coquetry, petting, holdup, hanky-panky, necking, love affair.
fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n) personal narrative, life, journal. heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, understatement, modesty. ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, sporting: (adj) fair, sportsmanlike, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, clean, gambling, betting, dissipated, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, athletic, adventurous, sporty; (v) tauromachy; (n) diversion. miserable, infernal, hellish, ANTONYM: (adj) unsporting. unappealing, dreadful, turbulent. marching: (n) walking, mar, drill; (adj) vaunt: (n, v) boast, gasconade; (v) ongoing, moving. brag, swagger, flourish, bluster, gas, pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, show off, blow, crow, gloat. ostentation, show, ceremony, glory,
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So soon he profits in divinity, The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes In heavenly matters of theology; Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; For, falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now with learning's golden gifts, He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: And this the man that in his study sits. [Exit.] [FAUSTUS discovered in his study.] FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: Having commenc'd, be a divine in shew, Yet level at the end of every art, And live and die in Aristotle's works. Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou hast ravish'd me! Bene disserere est finis logices. Is, %to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? Affords this art no greater miracle? Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that end: A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid Economy farewell, and Galen come, Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold,
Thesaurus cunning: (adj) crafty, canny, adroit, wily, sly, shrewd, tricky, artful; (n) craftiness, craft, cleverness. ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, honest, stupid, unimaginative, gullible, ingenuous, straightforward, candid, sincere; (n) frankness, straightforwardness. devilish: (adj, v) diabolic, satanic, infernal, mephistophelian, demoniacal; (adj) demonic, wicked,
diabolical, terrific; (v) Stygian; (adv) melting: (n) thawing, fusion, melt, devilishly. ANTONYMS: (adj) dissolution, warming, thaw, liquefaction, fusion range; (adj) cherubic, godlike, good, saintly, liquescent, pathetic; (adj, n) virtuous. finis: (n) finale, conclusion, last, close, dissolving. waxen: (adj) pale, waxy, white, finish, end, death, desinence, termination, closing curtain, ending. colorless, wan, ashen, yielding, soft, glutted: (adj) fleshed, fat, exceeding gray, drawn, cereous. wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, demand, corpulent, fuller, overfull, satiate, congested, blas, gorged, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) replete. flourish, rise, rally.
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And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body's health. Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, And thousand desperate maladies been eas'd? Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. Couldst thou make men to live eternally, Or, being dead, raise them to life again, Then this profession were to be esteem'd. Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? [Reads.] Si una eademque res legatur duobus, alter rem, alter valorem rei, &c. A pretty case of paltry legacies! [Reads.] Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c . Such is the subject of the institute, And universal body of the law: This study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash; Too servile and illiberal for me. When all is done, divinity is best: Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. [Reads.] Stipendium %peccati mors est. Ha! Stipendium, &c. The reward of sin is death: that's hard. [Reads.] Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas ;
Thesaurus hung: (n) hanging; (v) Heng; (adj) fatigued, puzzled, decorated. illiberal: (adj) close, churlish, covetous, intolerant, insular, bigoted, avaricious, small, mean, miserly; (adj, v) sordid. ANTONYM: (adj) generous. mercenary: (adj, n) hireling; (adj, v) sordid; (adj) mercantile, materialistic, covetous, commercial, greedy, venal, avaricious, selfish; (v) illiberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) altruistic,
philanthropic. cathartic, medication, healing, nisi: (conj) inconclusive. medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, paltry: (adj, n) mean; (adj) remedy; (v) heal. contemptible, measly, trifling, abject, servile: (adj) abject, obsequious, base, insignificant, inconsiderable, puny, fawning, ignoble, sordid, subservient, little, trivial, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) cringing, slavish; (adj, n) mean, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) bossy, assertive. generous, substantial, plentiful, wondrous: (adj) marvelous, enormous, important, profound. pater: (n) dad, pa, daddy, pappa, miraculous, marvellous, astonishing, papa, Dada, sire, begetter, pop, male tremendous, fantastic, phenomenal, extraordinary, rattling; (adv) parent, Dadaism. physic: (n) medicine, aperient, wonderfully, marvellously.
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If%we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why, then, belike we must sin, and so consequently die: Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera, What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! These metaphysics of magicians, And necromantic books are heavenly; Lines, circles, scenes, letters, and characters; Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. O, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, Is promis'd to the studious artizan! All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command: emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this, Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; A sound magician is a mighty god: Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity. [Enter WAGNER.] Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, The German Valdes and Cornelius; Request them earnestly to visit me. WAGNER. I will, sir. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. [Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL.]
Thesaurus adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale, valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio, adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYM: (n) greeting. belike: (adv) probably, likely, presumably, perhaps, believably, in all probability. magician: (n) enchanter, conjurer, illusionist, wizard, conjuror, thaumaturge, magicians, performer, magus, necromancer, prestidigitator. metaphysics: (n) ontology,
metaphysic, outside actual experience, ontological, cosmological, philosophy. necromantic: (adj) mystic, mysterious, necromantical. ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not. omnipotence: (n) state, providence, omniscience, omnipresence, power, mastery. plod: (v) tramp, trudge, toil, slog, drudge, labor, pad, grind, footslog; (n, v) clump, march.
rend: (v) pull, lacerate, break, divide, rive, tear, disrupt, mangle; (n, v) rip, split, slash. studious: (adj) scholarly, bookish, academic, assiduous, erudite, diligent, learned, careful, deliberate; (adj, v) thoughtful, reflective. ANTONYM: (adj) negligent. tire: (n, v) bore, jade; (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, harass, fag, weary, wear, pall, prostrate; (n) tyre. ANTONYMS: (v) interest, invigorate, energize.
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GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art Wherein all Nature's treasure is contain'd: Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky, Lord and commander of these elements. [Exeunt Angels.] FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I'll have them read me strange philosophy, And tell the secrets of all foreign kings; I'll have them wall all Germany with brass, And %make swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; I'll have them fill the public schools with silk, Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad; I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, And chase the Prince of Parma from our land, And reign sole king of all the provinces; Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge,
Thesaurus blasphemy: (n) profanity, desecration, caprice, quip. ANTONYMS: (n) burnished, aline, glassy; (adj) eastern; (n) Eastern Hemisphere. violation, profanation, oath, humility, timidity, selflessness, princely: (adj, v) August, grand, great, irreverence, curse, profaneness, humbleness, reserve. heap: (n, v) pile, aggregate, amass; (n) lordly, dignified, stately; (adj) discourtesy, cursing, insult. ANTONYMS: (n) adoration, respect, collection, accumulation, mound, generous, munificent, majestic, mass, group, lot; (v) bank, collect. reverence. magnificent, gorgeous. ANTONYM: brunt: (n) jolt, onset, push, shock, ANTONYM: (v) tidy. (adj) ungenerous. keel: (n) foot, hoof, carina, root, fin tempt: (adj, v) attract, allure; (v) entice, thrust, throw, impact, strain, blow, bang; (adj) stress. keel; (v) careen, cool, pitch, tumble, decoy, charm, inveigle, invite, coax, conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfdroop, flag. seduce, fascinate, attempt. ANTONYMS: (v) discourage, appall, esteem, pride, assumption, egotism, orient: (v) adjust, reorient, guide, fancy, haughtiness, conception, glossy, orientate, change orientation, repel.
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I'll%make my servile spirits to invent. [Enter VALDES and CORNELIUS.] Come, German Valdes, and Cornelius, And make me blest with your sage conference. Valdes, sweet Valdes, and Cornelius, Know that your words have won me at the last To practice magic and concealed arts: Yet not your words only, but mine own fantasy, That will receive no object; for my head But ruminates on necromantic skill. Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me. Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; And I, that have with concise syllogisms Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, Will be as cunning as Agrippa was, Whose shadow made all Europe honour him. VALDES. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, Shall make all nations to canonize us. As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, So shall the spirits of every element Be always serviceable to us three; Like lions shall they guard us when we please; Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides;
Thesaurus blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate, (adj) detestable, hideous, nasty, pitiful, little, worthless, unworthy, beatified, blissful, blame, blasted, miserable, ignoble, abominable, execrable, disgusting, abhorrent, shameful. ANTONYMS: (adj) blamed, golden, glorious, favored. abominable, heinous, forbidding. books: (n) notebook, account, ledger, ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant, estimable, admired, deserving, literature, accountancy. worthy, honorable, respectable, delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice. came: (v) arrive, come. serviceable: (adj) practical, helpful, respectful, noble, generous, canonize: (v) glorify, declare, hold, commendable, good. handy, profitable, beneficial, infernal: (adj) devilish, fiendish, bless, beatify, consecrate, canonise, effective, useful, convenient, efficient, hallow, worship, love, deify. diabolical, demonic, damned, cursed, operative, practicable. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (v) curse, desecrate, blasted, unholy, wicked; (adj, v) (adj) impractical, unusable, dishonor, disrespect. diabolic, satanic. unserviceable, useless, flimsy, contemptible: (adj) abject, mean, base, odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious; worthless.
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Sometimes%like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love: From Venice shall they drag huge argosies, And from America the golden fleece That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; If learned Faustus will be resolute. FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this As thou to live: therefore object it not. CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform Will make thee vow to study nothing else. He that is grounded in astrology, Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in minerals, Hath all the principles magic doth require: Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd, And more frequented for this mystery Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid Within the massy entrails of the earth: Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, That I may conjure in some lusty grove, And have these joys in full possession. VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,
Thesaurus cheers: (n) cheerio, bye, acclamation, so long, goodbye, au revoir, clapping, encore. conjure: (v) invoke, entreat, arouse, juggle, bewitch, beseech, bid, conjure up, evoke, implore, bring up. entrails: (n) bowels, gut, bowel, viscera, innards, internal organs, insides, intestines, guts, tripe, inside. forefathers: (n) patriarchs, forefather, ancestor, colony, lineage, family. heretofore: (adv) formerly, as yet,
before, so far, yet, already, until now, steady; (adj, v) determined; (adj) previously, once, hereunto; (adv, n) inflexible, brave, adamant, dogged, hitherto. unbending, courageous. lusty: (adj) energetic, stout, lustful, ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, uncertain, corpulent, potent, virile, vigorous, uncommitted, timid, fickle, feeble, hearty, sturdy, bouncing, dynamic. indecisive, flexible, flippant, hesitant, ANTONYM: (adj) feeble. undecided. massy: (adj) bulky, ample, shew: (v) demonstrate, prove, show, voluminous, heavy, considerable, contradict, establish, substantiate, weighty, ponderous, compacted, in support, sustain, indicate, exhibit, display. ANTONYM: (v) disprove. mass, beamy. resolute: (adj, n) constant, firm, fixed, unwedded: (adj) unwed.
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And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus' works, The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; And whatsoever else is requisite We will inform thee ere our conference cease. CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, Faustus may try his cunning by himself. VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. [Exeunt.] [Enter two SCHOLARS.] FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont to make our schools ring with sic probo. SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy.% [Enter WAGNER.] FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! where's thy master? WAGNER. God in heaven knows.
Thesaurus canvass: (n, v) campaign, discuss; (n) review; (v) beg, examine, scrutinize, view, agitate, inspect, survey, study. ANTONYM: (v) neglect. cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit, terminate, break, break off, close, conclude, discontinue, abstain. ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start, commence, persist, stay. dine: (v) feed, lunch, breakfast, dining, meal, give, have supper, take tea, grub, consume, entertain.
ANTONYM: (v) abstain. inform: (v) acquaint, impart, advise, enlighten, announce, tell, familiarize, explain, advertise, apprise, warn. instruct: (v) charge, educate, teach, advise, enlighten, direct, drill, inform, command, indoctrinate, tutor. perfecter: (adj) perfectible, immaculate. quiddity: (n) quibble, marrow, essence, pith, heart, gist, backbone,
crank, conceit; (adj, n) quintessence; (adj) incarnation. shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, bequeath, leave. thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage. wagner: (n) Richard Wagner. whatsoever: (adj) any, at all, possible; (pron) what, anything, no matter what, partly, somewhat, anything that, whatso.
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SECOND%SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us where he is. WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, being licentiates, should stand upon: therefore acknowledge your error, and be attentive. SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? WAGNER. Have you any witness on't? FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus naturale? and is not that mobile? then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty foot of the place of execution, although I do not doubt to see you both hanged the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set my countenance like a precisian, and begin to speak thus:-- Truly, my dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it could speak, would inform your
Thesaurus attentive: (adj) assiduous, diligent, heedful, watchful, observant, advertent, mindful, careful, aware, alert, respectful. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfocused, negligent, neglectful, forgetful, heedless, unobservant, rude, unprepared, unconscious, uncaring, inconsiderate. brethren: (n) congregation, assembly, brother, people, laity, family, flock, fold. heard: (n) hearing.
jesting: (adj) jocular, jocose, facetious, humorous, playful; (n) banter, humor, comedy, pleasantry, fun, joke. ANTONYM: (n) tragedy. lechery: (n) lasciviousness, vice, lubricity, lust, desire, lecherousness, sensuality, incontinency, concupiscence, salacity; (adj) pruriency. phlegmatic: (adj) indifferent, listless, stolid, unconcerned, phlegmatical, lethargic, passive, inert, nonchalant,
cold, careless. ANTONYM: (adj) demonstrative. precisian: (adj) puritan, Methodist, pietist, disciplinarian, vulture, religionist, tyrant; (n) pedant, stickler, bashaw, despot. sessions: (n) Roger sessions, Roger Huntington sessions. wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore; (adv, n) why; (n) reason, proof; (adv) accordingly, consequently, so, wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then.
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worships: and so, the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren! [Exit.] FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art for which they two are infamous through the world. SECOND SCHOLAR. Were he a stranger, and not allied to me, yet should I grieve for him. But, come, let us go and inform the Rector, and see if he by his grave counsel can reclaim him. FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. [Exeunt.] [Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.] FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, Leaps from th' antartic world unto the sky, And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath, Faustus, begin thine incantations, And %try if devils will obey thy hest, Seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them. Within this circle is Jehovah's name, Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd, Th' abbreviated names of holy saints, Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, And characters of signs and erring stars, By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise:
Thesaurus abbreviated: (adj) short, abridged, abbreviate, condensed, truncated, brief, compendious, cut, truncate, concise, reduced. adjunct: (n) addendum, addition, appendage, extra, attachment, adjutant, increment, coadjutor; (adj, n) assistant; (adj) auxiliary, appurtenant. ANTONYMS: (n) lessening, detriment. devils: (n) unclean spirits. drizzling: (adj) drizzle, sprinkle,
pouring, disgusting, drizzly, nasty, disagreeable, rainy, showery, raining, descending. erring: (adj) devious, sinful, fallible, wrong, amiss, at fault, guilty, perverse, reprehensible; (n) transgression. grieve: (n, v) distress, aggrieve, afflict, sorrow, annoy; (v) trouble, lament, deplore, bemoan, fret, bewail. ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice, celebrate, encourage.
pitchy: (adj) tarry, dusky, dark, fuliginous, jet, murky, obscure, pitch dark, inky, black, achromatic. reclaim: (v) recover, reform, cultivate, claim, repossess, claim back, regain, recycle, salvage, correct, redeem. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, discard. welkin: (n) sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sky, vault of heaven, celestial sphere, heaven, orbit, sphere of influence, surface.
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Then%fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, And try the uttermost magic can perform.-Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris: per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc surgat nobis dicatus Mephistophilis! [Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS.] I charge thee to return, and change thy shape; Thou art too ugly to attend on me: Go, and return an old Franciscan friar; That holy shape becomes a devil best. [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] I see there's virtue in my heavenly words: Who would not be proficient in this art? How pliant is this Mephistophilis, Full of obedience and humility! Such is the force of magic and my spells: No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, That canst command great Mephistophilis: Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar.] MEPHISTOPHILIS. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm the world.
Thesaurus conjuror: (n) magician, seer, illusionist, prestidigitator, conjure man, jockey, performer, wizard, witch, trickster, necromancer. devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. ANTONYM: (n) angel. numen: (n) spirit, gift. overwhelm: (v) overpower, defeat, inundate, flood, overthrow, drown, deluge, crush, engulf, astound,
overturn. ANTONYMS: (v) inept, amateur, untrained, encourage, amplify, capitulate, incite, inexperienced, bad. quod: (n) bilboes, Bastille, prison, install, lose, protect, submit. pliant: (adj, v) pliable, limber; (adj) stocks. triplex: (adj) ternary, treble, threefold, elastic, plastic, ductile, malleable, adaptable, compliant, flexile, supple, dual, double, soprano; (n) triplex lithe. ANTONYMS: (adj) inflexible, apartment, triplex building. uttermost: (adj, n) extreme; (adj, adv) rigid, rebellious. proficient: (adj, n) expert, professional; farthest; (n) maximum, level best; (adj) able, accomplished, practiced, (adj) furthest, utter, last, farthermost, good, adroit, capable, skillful, furthermost, ultimate, most. competent, deft. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYM: (adj) moderate.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. % I am a servant to great Lucifer, And may not follow thee without his leave: No more than he commands must we perform. FAUSTUS. Did not he charge thee to appear to me? MEPHISTOPHILIS. No, I came hither of mine own accord. FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. MEPHISTOPHILIS. That was the cause, but yet per accidens; For, when we hear one rack the name of God, Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; Nor will we come, unless he use such means Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath Already done; and holds this principle, There is no chief but only Belzebub; To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself. This word "damnation" terrifies not him, For he confounds hell in Elysium: His ghost be with the old philosophers! But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord?
Thesaurus abjure: (v) renounce, recant, abdicate, apart. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, excruciate, afflict, agonize. shortest: (adj) direct, brusk, brusque, deny, forswear, disavow, abandon, alienate, desecrate, dishonor, reject, recall, repudiate, revoke. disrespect, steal, take, withhold, choleric, curt, directer, hotheaded, commands: (n) orders, instructions, misuse, keep. least, irascible, lowest, most direct. devoutly: (adv) sincerely, godly, stoutly: (adv) sturdily, robustly, information, guidelines. conjuring: (n) magic, hocus-pocus, religiously, reverently, earnestly, strongly, solidly, lustily, vigorously, incantation, sorcery, witchcraft, solemnly, heartily, holy, purely, toughly, resolutely, stockily, portly, obstinately. ANTONYM: (adv) feebly. sleight of hand, adjuration, figgum, heartfeltly, at heart. conjury, evocation; (adj) magical. hither: (adv) here, whither, trifles: (n) jests, nonsense, nugae, dedicate: (v) apply, devote, commit, hitherward, thither. trivia. rack: (n, v) torment, wrack, Scud; (n) bless, render, sanctify, pay, inaugurate, give, destine; (prep, v) set manger, grid, cage, bracket, stand; (v)
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? MEPHISTOPHILIS. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; For which God threw him from the face of heaven. FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? MEPHISTOPHILIS. In hell. FAUSTUS. % How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?
Thesaurus angel: (n, v) sponsor, support; (n) ageless, aeonian; (adj, n) lasting. expensively, belovedly, intimately, ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, ephemeral, backer, cherub, messenger, patron, highly, heartfeltly, lovely. benefactor, saint; (adj) Dulcinea, eternal: (adj) constant, perpetual, fleeting, mortal, ending, terminating, goddess; (adj, n) darling. ceaseless, everlasting, lasting, inconstant, fragile, perishable. ANTONYMS: (n) fiend, devil, jerk, prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign, continual, aeonian, immortal, demon. boundless, deathless, enduring. duke, king, chief, maharaja, aspiring: (adj) aspirant, wishful, ANTONYMS: (adj) mortal, finite, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke. enterprising, envious, desirous, brief, ephemeral, fleeting, terminable, tormented: (adj) worried, tortured, coming; (v) aspire, vaulting. ending, fragile, inconstant. hagridden, troubled, beleaguered, ANTONYM: (adj) desperate. everlasting: (adj) eternal, ceaseless, beset, besieged, cruciate, cruciform, dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously, endless, constant, continual, distraught, distressed. ANTONYM: (adj) calm. darlingly, sweetly, petly, perpetual, immortal, deathless,
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O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to my fainting soul! FAUSTUS. What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate For being deprived of the joys of heaven? Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer: Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity, Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness; Having thee ever to attend on me, To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, And always be obedient to my will. Go and return to mighty Lucifer, And meet me in my study at midnight, % And then resolve me of thy master's mind. MEPHISTOPHILIS. I will, Faustus. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore,
Thesaurus fainting: (n) swoon, syncope, manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv) crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, deliquium, lipothymy, prostration, manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely; resistant. stupor; (adj) lipothymic. (adj, adv) stately. ANTONYMS: (adj) slay: (n, v) murder, assassinate; (v) frivolous: (adj) empty, foolish, dizzy, weak, unmanly, cowardly; (adv) dispatch, execute, slaughter, destroy, petty, idle, light, flighty, unmanfully. massacre, put to death, remove, master's: (n) postgraduate degree. unimportant, flippant, trivial, finish, butcher. superficial. ANTONYMS: (adj) obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, tidings: (n) intelligence, information, important, solemn, worthwhile, vital, good, conformable, tame, message, report, word, advice, weighty, staid, significant, sensible, acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, communication, dispute, wind, responsible, crucial, heavy. amenable, subservient. ANTONYMS: statement, tiding. manly: (adj) manlike, masculine, (adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious,
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And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again. [Exit.] [Enter WAGNER and CLOWN.] WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither.% CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys with such pickadevaunts as I have: boy, quotha! WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! the villain is bare and out of service, and so hungry, that I know he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood-raw. CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though 'twere bloodraw! not so, good friend: by'r lady, I had need have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like Qui mihi discipulus?
Thesaurus continent: (adj) chaste, celibate, abstemious, pure, temperate, abstinent, sober, austere; (n) land, peninsula, delta. ANTONYMS: (adj) impure, unchaste. contributory: (adj) conducive, auxiliary, contributive, ancillary, subservient, instrumental, subsidiary, additional, accessory, helpful, tributary. mutton: (n) lamb, em, mouton, mut, sheep, pork, red meat, white meat,
beef, area unit; (v) pilot bread. nakedness: (n) nudity, altogether, baldness, nude, nudeness, undress, birthday suit, openness, status, emptiness, frankness. potentate: (n) king, dictator, sovereign, autocrat, ruler, emperor, despot, lord, crown, prince, tyrant. roasted: (adj) fried, baked. sauce: (n) gravy, condiment, impudence, seasoning, garnish, impertinence, mole, bechamel, salad,
billingsgate, aioli. slave: (n) servant, bondman, thrall, bondsman, bondwoman, captive, vassal; (n, v) labor; (v) drudge, work; (adj, n) inferior. ANTONYMS: (adj) free; (v) slack. villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit, crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion. ANTONYMS: (n) heroine, hero.
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CLOWN. % How, in verse? WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre. CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of your living. WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your man, I should be full of vermin. WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee into familiars, and they shall tear thee in pieces. CLOWN. Do you hear, sir? you may save that labour; they are too familiar with me already: swowns, they are as bold with my flesh as if they had paid for their meat and drink. WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. [Gives money.] CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? WAGNER. Why, French crowns.
Thesaurus bind: (adj, v) attach, fix, fasten, affix; (n) band; (v) bandage, lace, fetter, bundle, truss, combine. ANTONYMS: (v) untie, unbind, free, unfasten, unravel, permit, loosen, loose, let; (n, v) release; (n) pleasure. bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious, manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless, spirited, heroic, daring, courageous, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) timid, modest, afraid, meek, shy, light, courteous, discreet, faint, fearful,
abashed. lice: (n) fleas, parasites, vermin. pieces: (n) debris, trash. presently: (adv) instantly, directly, currently, before long, shortly, soon, now, at present, readily, just, actually. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, now, formerly. silk: (adj) silky, down, silken, velure, velvet; (n) silks, satin, cloth, animal fiber, fabric, dental floss. tear: (n, v) rip, break, split, rupture,
crack, run, slit; (v) pull, rend, lacerate; (adj, v) rush. ANTONYMS: (v) wait, mend, idle, fix, amble, dawdle. unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before. vermin: (n) bug, varmint, louse, trash, pest, brute, varment, scum, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, rabble. verse: (n) rhyme, poem, stanza, poesy, strain, measure, song, paragraph, clause, couplet, vertex. whether: (pron) where.
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CLOWN. Mass, but for the name of French crowns, a man were as good have as many English counters. And what should I do with these? WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning, whensoever or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. WAGNER. Truly, I'll none of them. CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee away.--Baliol and Belcher! CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? "Do ye see yonder tall fellow in the round slop? he has killed the devil." So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over.% [Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying.] WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,--spirits, away! [Exeunt DEVILS.] CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile long nails. There
Thesaurus fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, get, attract; (adj, n) feint. folks: (n) people, folk, tribe, relations, household, house, relatives, relative, kindred, lineage, kin. killed: (n) casualty; (adj) fallen. knock: (n, v) hit, blow, bang, bump, tap, strike, whack, bash, punch, cuff; (n) crash. ANTONYMS: (n) improvement, boost; (v) encourage, bolster, approve.
runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness, (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, Montezuma's revenge. evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. slop: (v) spill, splash, slosh, smudge; ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, (adj, n) filth; (n) pigwash, slops; (n, v) nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, swill; (adj) dabble, dirt, soil. honorable, good, delightful, vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal, admirable, noble. wheresoever: (adv) wherever, retaliation, requital, avengement, wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance; whithersoever, whereso, wheresoe'er. (n, v) avenge, resentment. yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, ANTONYMS: (n) forgiveness, abroad, thither, further away, at that place; (adj) distant, yond, furious, acceptance. vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; fierce.
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was a he-devil and a she-devil: I'll tell you how you shall know them; all hedevils has horns, and all she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. CLOWN. How! a Christian fellow to a dog, or a cat, a mouse, or a rat! no, no, sir; if you turn me into any thing, let it be in the likeness of a little pretty frisking flea, that I may be here and there and every where: O, I'll tickle the pretty wenches' plackets! I'll be amongst them, i'faith. WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? WAGNER. How!--Baliol and Belcher! CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep.% WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis nostris insistere. [Exit.] CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, I'll follow him; I'll serve
Thesaurus cloven: (adj) bisulcate, cleaved, fustian: (adj, n) rant, jargon; (adj) divided. bombastic, inflated, pompous, flea: (n) chamois, chigger, chigoe, grandiloquent, highfalutin, prose run mad; (n) claptrap, blah, grandiosity. insect, frog, chigoe flea, epizoon, heel: (n) blackguard, dog, counter, goat, ectoparasite, chinch, dog flea. forgive: (v) absolve, excuse, acquit, cad, villain, scoundrel, shoe, sole, bounder, tree rest; (v) lean. remit, pardon, justify, to forgive, exonerate, overlook, clear, to excuse. likeness: (n) resemblance, copy, effigy, ANTONYMS: (v) condemn, punish, image, affinity, similarity, correspondence, facsimile; (adj, n) castigate. frisking: (n) search, hunt, hunting, figure, form, semblance. ANTONYMS: (n) difference, searching.
diversity, dissimilarity, unlikeness, contrast. mouse: (v) sneak, creep, steal, snoop, seek; (n) track, hunt, field mouse, fieldmouse, trace; (adj) small fry. quasi: (adv) nearly, almost, partly, practically, just as; (adj) mock, ostensible, similar, pseudo; (n) semi. speaks: (n) talks. tickle: (v) titillate, indulge, thrill, prickle, please, tingle, humor, flatter, vellicate, divert; (n) titillation.
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him, %that's flat. [Exit.] [FAUSTUS discovered in his study.] FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must Thou needs be damn'd, and canst thou not be sav'd: What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? Away with such vain fancies, and despair; Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, "Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. To God? he loves thee not; The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: To him I'll build an altar and a church, And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. [Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL.] GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of them? GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, That make men foolish that do trust them most. GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things.
Thesaurus altar: (n) shrine, Communion table, sanctuary, table, structure, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, construction, examination hall, holy of Holies. babes: (n) babies, babe. backward: (adj, adv) late, behindhand; (adj) tardy, retarded, reluctant, coy, slow, laggard, dilatory; (adv) behind, backwardly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) ahead; (adv) onward; (adj) quick, developing, advanced, confident, brilliant, bold.
execrable: (adj, adv) abominable, cold, listless, halfhearted, mild, cool, nefarious; (adj, v) cursed, hateful, unenthusiastic, apathetic, genial, odious; (adj) deplorable, damnable, frigid. ANTONYMS: (adj) hot, cool, abhorrent, atrocious, accursed, cold, keen. dreadful. ANTONYMS: (adj) savory, vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, laudable, outstanding, dandy, swell, fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, great, fabulous, superb, ineffectual, unproductive, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. praiseworthy. fancies: (n) stock. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, fruits: (n) revenue. possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, illusions: (n) fantasy. humble, useful, responsible, lukewarm: (adj) indifferent, warm, worthwhile, effective.
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EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of wealth. [Exeunt ANGELS.] FAUSTUS. Of wealth! Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe Cast no more doubts.--Come, Mephistophilis, And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-Is't not midnight?--come, Mephistophilis, Veni, veni, Mephistophile! [Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Now tell me what says Lucifer, thy lord? MEPHISTOPHILIS. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives, So he will buy my service with his soul. FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. MEPHISTOPHILIS. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; For that security craves great Lucifer. If thou deny it, I will back to hell.% FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Enlarge his kingdom. FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why he tempts us thus?
Thesaurus bequeath: (n, v) will; (v) leave, give, pass on, demise, entrust, endow, devise, transmit, remember, donate. ANTONYMS: (v) disown, withdraw, take. deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, doing, document, title, fact. ANTONYM: (n) failure. deny: (v) controvert, rebuff, contradict, disavow, gainsay, reject, oppose, refuse, disown, abnegate, renounce.
ANTONYMS: (v) affirm, claim, celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dishonor; (v) disrespect. acknowledge, declare, maintain, soul: (n) creature, human, person, agree, spoil, accept, accede, allow, argue. personification, ghost, individual, gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty, mind, essence, life, self; (adj, n) heart. ability, talent; (n) donation, flair, ANTONYMS: (n) surface, body. bestowal; (n, v) award, present, boon; wealth: (adj, n) abundance, plenty, (adj, n) capacity. ANTONYMS: (n) affluence, opulence; (n, v) money, gold; (n) treasure, property, fortune, penalty, forfeiture, failing. honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, capital; (adj) richness. ANTONYMS: (n) penury, scarcity, dearth, want, homage, celebrity, accolade, reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, need, lack.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. FAUSTUS. Why, have you any pain that torture others! MEPHISTOPHILIS. As great as have the human souls of men. But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Then, Faustus, stab thine arm courageously, And bind thy soul, that at some certain day Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; And then be thou as great as Lucifer. FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night! View here the blood that trickles from mine arm, And let it be propitious for my wish.% MEPHISTOPHILIS. But, Faustus, thou must Write it in manner of a deed of gift. FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, My blood congeals, and I can write no more.
Thesaurus manner: (adj, n) kind; (n) bearing, demeanor, method, form, appearance, carriage, way; (n, v) custom, style, habit. mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n) excavation, pit, fund, land mine, vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my, delve. perpetual: (adj) incessant, continual, constant, endless, eternal, everlasting, lasting, ceaseless, immortal, continuous, perennial. ANTONYMS:
(adj) temporary, intermittent, superintendent, curator, governor, viceroy; (adj) regnant. transitory, mortal, unstable, finite, stab: (n, v) thrust, impale, jab, pierce, inconstant, occasional, sporadic. propitious: (adj) fortunate, lucky, prod, dig, stick, pink; (n) try, prick; good, benign, happy, opportune; (adj, (v) spike. v) auspicious; (adj, n, v) friendly; (adj, torture: (n, v) pain, distress, agonize, n) promising, advantageous, kind. afflict; (n) agony, anguish, suffering, ANTONYMS: (adj) unfortunate, excruciation, grief; (v) rack, unlucky, unpropitious, inopportune, excruciate. ANTONYMS: (n) relief, hopeless. alleviation, content, ecstasy, joy, regent: (n) trustee, experrection, pleasure; (v) relieve, alleviate. protector, viceregent, vizier, vicar,
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. % I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? Is it unwilling I should write this bill? Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: ah, there it stay'd! Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals.] MEPHISTOPHILIS. Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on. FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; Now will I make an end immediately. [Writes.] MEPHISTOPHILIS. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? [Aside.] FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soul to Lucifer. But what is this inscription on mine arm? Homo, fuge: whither should I fly? If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell. My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-I see it plain; here in this place is writ, Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly.
Thesaurus chafer: (n) cockchafer. dissolve: (v) break up, disperse, dissipate, evaporate, fuse, melt, disband, fade, vanish, resolve, dispel. ANTONYMS: (v) solidify, appear, harden, thicken, coagulate, congeal, continue, integrate, materialize, open, start. inscription: (n) epigraph, entry, dedication, autograph, epitaph, registration, lettering, writing, record, superscription, title.
plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, intelligible, apparent, manifest, obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate, unclear, multicolored, mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned. senses: (adj) sober senses, sound mind; (n) reason, mind, conception, consciousness, judgment, faculties, mother wit, right mind, sanity. shine: (n, v) light, sheen, flash, glitter,
sparkle, polish, rub; (v) burnish, gleam, blaze; (n) radiance. unwilling: (adj) involuntary, loath, disinclined, averse, recalcitrant, backward, indisposed, grudging, loth, adverse, forced. ANTONYMS: (adj) inclined, amenable, keen, prepared, ready, eager, disposed, agreeable, accepting, happy. whither: (adv) hither, thither, whereunto, whereto, for.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. % I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. [Aside, and then exit.] [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, And to shew thee what magic can perform. FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. FAUSTUS. Then there's enough for a thousand souls. Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, A deed of gift of body and of soul: But yet conditionally that thou perform All articles prescrib'd between us both. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer To effect all promises between us made! FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] On these conditions following. First, that Faustus may be a spirit in form and substance. Secondly, that Mephistophilis shall be his servant, and at his command. Thirdly, that Mephistophilis shall do for him, and bring him whatsoever he desires. Fourthly, that he shall be in his chamber or house invisible. Lastly, that he shall appear to the said John Faustus, at all times, in what form or shape soever he please. I, John Faustus, of Wertenberg, doctor, by these
Thesaurus apparel: (n, v) garb, attire, garment, array, vesture; (n) clothing, finery, costume, clothes; (v) adorn, clothe. conditionally: (adv) provisorily, qualifiedly, contingently, dependently, supposing, guardedly, hypothetically, temporarily; (n) if, in case, provided. deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, doing, document, title, fact. ANTONYM: (n) failure.
depart: (v) go, deviate, decease, diverge, start, stray, wander, leave, die, vary, part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, arrive, enter, come, abide, conform, continue, remain, appear, converge, return. fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, get, attract; (adj, n) feint. fourthly: (adv) quaternarily. shew: (v) demonstrate, prove, show, contradict, establish, substantiate,
support, sustain, indicate, exhibit, display. ANTONYM: (v) disprove. thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage. whatsoever: (adj) any, at all, possible; (pron) what, anything, no matter what, partly, somewhat, anything that, whatso.
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presents, do give both body and soul to Lucifer Prince of the East, and his minister Mephistophilis; and furthermore grant unto them, that, twenty-four years being expired, the articles above-written inviolate, full power to fetch or carry the said John Faustus, body and soul, flesh, blood, or goods, into their habitation wheresoever. by me, John Faustus. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! MEPHISTOPHILIS. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Under the heavens. FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.% FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable.
Thesaurus bowels: (n) gut, compassion, pity, human, puppet, somebody. inside, bowel, viscera, innards, belly, expired: (adj) lapsed, deceased, guts, insides, intestines. invalid, dead, overdue, extinct, conclude: (n, v) complete; (v) finish, elapsed, out. gather, end, settle, resolve, terminate, fable: (n) legend, fiction, tale, story, determine, accomplish, cease, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, myth, assume. ANTONYMS: (v) start, anecdote; (adj, n) apologue, parable. ANTONYMS: (n) fact, history. begin, commence, open, unsettle, habitation: (adj, n) abode; (n) domicile, prolong, wait, hesitate, introduce, delay, postpone. residence, house, home, habitat, creature: (n) being, brute, animal, tool, lodging, place, occupancy, individual, person, body, entity, inhabitation, inhabitancy.
ANTONYM: (n) vacancy. heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial sphere, space, skies, area, vault of heaven. inviolate: (adj, v) intact; (adj) sacred, sacrosanct, whole, entire, pure; (v) in petto, clandestine, auricular, close, privy. self: (n) ego, person, me, individual, being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; (adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine That, after this life, there is any pain? Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales. MEPHISTOPHILIS. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, For I am damn'd, and am now in hell. FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd here: What! walking, disputing, &c. But, leaving off this, let me have a wife, The fairest maid in Germany; For I am wanton and lascivious, And cannot live without a wife.% MEPHISTOPHILIS. How! a wife! I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have one. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: I'll fetch thee a wife in the
Thesaurus disputing: (adj) opposed; (v) disputant. fond: (adj) affectionate, caring, devoted, tender, loving, amorous, delicate, adoring, doting, ardent, attached. ANTONYMS: (adj) aversion, cold, rough. instance: (n) exemplar, case, time, illustration, sample, affair, pattern, chance, cause; (v) exemplify, illustrate. maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass,
lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, maiden, housemaid, handmaid. necessity: (n) demand, need, lack, exigency, essential, compulsion, emergency, distress, must, constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS: (n) inessential, treat, unimportance, luxury. prithee: (v) pray; (int) prythee. wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light, licentious, unchaste, lewd, debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; (n,
v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, wise, nice, kind, gentle, decent, clean, careful, observant, justifiable, involuntary. willingly: (adv) readily, voluntarily, cheerfully, spontaneously, helpfully, disposedly, actively, openly, obligingly, eagerly; (adj, adv) freely. ANTONYMS: (adv) grudgingly, reluctantly, uncooperatively, unenthusiastically. wives: (n) woman.
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devil's name. [Exit.] [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, with fireworks.] MEPHISTOPHILIS. Tell me, Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! MEPHISTOPHILIS. Tut, Faustus, Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; If thou lovest me, think no more of it. I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, And bring them every morning to thy bed: She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have, Be she as chaste as was Penelope, As wise as Saba, or as beautiful As was bright Lucifer before his fall. Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: [Gives book.] The iterating of these lines brings gold; The framing of this circle on the ground Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, And men in armour shall appear to thee, Ready to execute what thou desir'st.% FAUSTUS. Thanks, Mephistophilis: yet fain would I have a book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations, that I might raise up spirits when I please.
Thesaurus armour: (n) armature, buckler, armour dirty, defiled, impure, tainted. cull: (v) pick, collect, pluck, select, plate, cataphract. behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, extract, glean, reap, gather, compile, regard, perceive, observe, look, amass, sort. fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly; (v) ignore, overlook. chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, optative. framing: (n) frame, casing, sash, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, severe, continent, spotless, decent. doorcase, cornice, cowcatcher, ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, coaming, deckle, clotheshorse, buffer, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, derrick.
iterating: (adj) iterant, redundant. peruse: (v) examine, look through, inspect, study, leaf, flip, flick, learn, review, to read, browse. ANTONYM: (v) skim. thrice: (adv) three times, thirdly. wherein: (adv) in what, in which, where. whore: (n) harlot, trollop, courtesan, tart, strumpet, hooker, streetwalker, cocotte, bawd, slattern, verticil.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Here they are in this book. [Turns to them.] FAUSTUS. Now would I have a book where I might see all characters and planets of the heavens, that I might know their motions and dispositions. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Here they are too. [Turns to them.] FAUSTUS. Nay, let me have one book more,--and then I have done,-- wherein I might see all plants, herbs, and trees, that grow upon the earth. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Here they be. FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Tut, I warrant thee. [Turns to them.] FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys.% MEPHISTOPHILIS. Why, Faustus, Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth. FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that?
Thesaurus characters: (n) letters, typescript, typeset, symbols, script, lettering, inscription, handwriting, font, cast, writing. curse: (n, v) blight, plague; (n) anathema, blasphemy, malediction, denunciation; (adj, v) beshrew; (v) swear, ban, damn, vituperate. ANTONYMS: (n) blessing, benediction, making; (v) communicate. deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided.
glorious: (adj) distinguished, beautiful, bright, celebrated, brilliant, eminent, magnificent, super, great, splendid; (adj, v) illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sorrowful, despicable, horrible, shameful, lowly. heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery. trees: (n) foliage. warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license,
assure, sanction, empower; (n) authority, authorization, security; (v) justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) break; (v) debar. wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious, evil, vile, depraved, mischievous, immoral, unholy, nasty, naughty. ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, pure, pious, moral, kind, admirable, kindhearted, helpful, decent, assisting, aiding.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: I will renounce this magic and repent. [Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL.] GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. EVIL ANGEL. Thou art a spirit; God cannot pity thee. FAUSTUS. Who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit? Be I a devil, yet God may pity me; Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. [Exeunt ANGELS.] FAUSTUS. My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent: Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, But %fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, "Faustus, thou art damn'd!" then swords, and knives, Poison, guns, halters, and envenom'd steel Are laid before me to despatch myself; And long ere this I should have slain myself, Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. Have not I made blind Homer sing to me Of Alexander's love and Oenon's death? And hath not he, that built the walls of Thebes With ravishing sound of his melodious harp,
Thesaurus despatch: (n) shipment, expedition, (adj) beautiful, gorgeous, charming, salvation: (n) redemption, rescue, communique, mission, consignment, fascinating, enchanting, delightful, delivery, preservation, savior, sending, forwarding; (v) transmit, stunning, irresistible, heavenly. deliverance, liberation, expiation, renounce: (v) abandon, abdicate, propitiation; (adj, n) justification; (adj) expedite, quicken, send. ears: (n) antenna. abjure, relinquish, desert, reject, give conversion. ANTONYMS: (n) melodious: (adj) harmonious, musical, up, disown, deny, quit, forgo. damnation, destruction. ANTONYMS: (v) acknowledge, slain: (v) slay; (adj) overthrown, mat, sweet, tuneful, mellow, dulcet, soft, gentle, full, canorous, mellifluous. reassert, assert, continue, retain, fallen, dejected, cast down. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, thunder: (adj, n, v) boom; (n, v) roar, persist. repent: (v) deplore, bewail, rue, bang, roll, bellow; (adj, n) peal; (adj, v) unmelodious, inharmonious, tuneless, grating, loud. mourn, lament, atone, sorry, bemoan, explode, detonate; (v) howl, rumble, ravishing: (adj, n) rapturous, ecstatic; feel remorse, grieve, be sorry. fulminate.
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Made%music with my Mephistophilis? Why should I die, then, or basely despair? I am resolv'd; Faustus shall ne'er repent.-Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, And argue of divine astrology. Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon Are all celestial bodies but one globe, As is the substance of this centric earth? MEPHISTOPHILIS. As are the elements, such are the spheres, Mutually folded in each other's orb, And, Faustus, All jointly move upon one axletree, Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole; Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter Feign'd, but are erring stars. FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et tempore? MEPHISTOPHILIS. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon the poles of the zodiac. FAUSTUS. Tush, These slender trifles Wagner can decide: Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? Who knows not the double motion of the planets? The first is finish'd in a natural day; The second thus; as Saturn in thirty years; Jupiter in twelve; Mars in four; the Sun, Venus, and Mercury in a year; the Moon in twenty-eight days. Tush, these are freshmen's suppositions. But, tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia?
Thesaurus basely: (adv) vilely, bottomly, dominion: (n) authority, control, commonly, in agreement. sordidly, shamefully, foully, domain, command, reign, rule, sway, ANTONYM: (adv) individually. slender: (adj, v) lean, meager; (adj) menially, lowly, depravedly, power, kingdom, mastery, supremacy. ANTONYM: (n) villainously, badly, poorly. little, thin, fine, lithe, slight, delicate, bodies: (n) people, public. subjugation. lissom, flimsy, faint. ANTONYMS: celestial: (adj) ethereal, divine, folded: (adj) plaited, pleated, doubled, (adj) stocky, fat, wide, considerable, supernal, angelic, holy, sacred, artful, braided, corrugated, doubled short, substantial, good, adequate, astronomical, unworldly, over, fluted. stout, thick. superlunary, from on high; (n) jointly: (adv) conjointly, collectively, stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate. heaven. ANTONYMS: (adj) zodiac: (n) band, girth, constellation, unitedly, mutually, together, mundane, secular, terrestrial, mortal. communally, combinedly, baldric, circle, tyre, Pleiades, centric: (adj) central, centre, medial. cooperatively, reciprocally, diagram, girdle, Great Bear, girt.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Ay. FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal heaven. FAUSTUS. Well, resolve me in this question; why have we not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses, all at one time, but in some years we have more, in some less? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? MEPHISTOPHILIS. I will not. FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned.% FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world.
Thesaurus aspects: (adj) moods, features. bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border, bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n) boundary, barrier, compass. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, amble, crawl, limp, permit; (adj) permitted, released, unbound, allowed, unlikely. empyreal: (adj) empyrean, celestial, heavenly, sublime, ethereal, supernal, glorious, ultimate, ineffable. firmament: (n) sphere, welkin, heaven, heavens, celestial sphere, expanse,
arena, field, vault of heaven, domain, settle; (n) determination, firmness, area. decision, resolution. ANTONYMS: hell: (n) blaze, Hades, underworld, (n) weakness, irresoluteness, perdition, inferno, pandemonium, vacillation, cowardice, flexibility, indecisiveness, indifference; (v) netherworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, purgatory, trial. ANTONYM: (n) aggravate, complicate, exacerbate, paradise. waver. kingdom: (n) domain, realm, state, seven: (adj, n) VII; (n) September, empire, dominion, territory, nation, septet, week, nine, knave, king, jack, crown, monarchy, department, land. queen, digit, Sevener. resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine, solve, decide, dissolve, decompose,
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Remember this. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! 'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. Is't not too late? [Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL.] EVIL ANGEL. Too late. GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. [Exeunt ANGELS.] FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, Seek to save distressed Faustus' soul! [Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS.] LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: There's none but I have interest in the same.% FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that look'st so terrible? LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, And this is my companion-prince in hell.
Thesaurus accursed: (adj) execrable, abominable, wicked, destructive, depraved; (adj, n) ill, detriment; (n) adversity, detestable, accurst, hateful, damned, damnable, maledict, blasted; (v) disaster, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) atrocious, stranded. goodness, righteousness, morality; distressed: (adj) worried, distraught, (adj) kindhearted, righteous, benign, anxious, sad, disturbed, downcast, moral, pure, upright, virtuous, hurt, distracted, wretched, shocked, sinless. troubled. ANTONYMS: (adj) lucifer: (n) Satan, Beelzebub, the Devil, composed, content, euphoric, happy, match, fusee, fuzee, friction match, comforted, glad, joyful, collected, light, archfiend, Vesta, vesuvian. raze: (v) dismantle, destroy, demolish, unconcerned, unaffected. evil: (adj) bad, criminal, corrupt, devastate, expunge, level, rase,
overthrow, erase, bulldoze, flatten. ANTONYM: (v) raise. ugly: (adj, adv) surly; (adj) nasty, repulsive, frightful, forbidding, disagreeable, hideous, gruesome, evil, offensive, shocking. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, flowing, ornamental, nice, lovely, pleasant, safe, kind, gentle, appealing, agreeable.
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FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; Thou talk'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise: Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, And of his dam too. FAUSTUS. Nor will I henceforth: pardon me in this, And Faustus vows never to look to heaven, Never to name God, or to pray to him, To burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers, And make my spirits pull his churches down. LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, As Paradise was to Adam, the first day Of his creation. LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise nor creation; but mark this show: talk of the devil, and nothing else.--Come away! [Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS.] Now, Faustus, examine them of their several names and dispositions.% FAUSTUS. What art thou, the first? PRIDE. I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea; I can creep
Thesaurus disdain: (n, v) despise, contemn, slight, ridicule; (n) contempt, derision, arrogance, haughtiness, pride; (v) scoff, disparage. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, admiration, reverence, worship, approval, regard; (v) approve, admire, praise, accept, participate. gratify: (v) delight, please, appease, accommodate, satisfy, amuse, suit, indulge, cater; (n, v) humor; (adj) contented. ANTONYMS: (v)
dissatisfy, displease, disappoint. henceforth: (adv) hence, in future, after this; (adj) following. injure: (n, v) damage, harm, impair; (v) contuse, disfigure, maim, bruise, blemish, wound, insult; (adj, v) abuse. ANTONYMS: (v) heal, enable, repair, protect, help. pastime: (n) game, avocation, entertainment, recreation, hobby, distraction, interest, fun, pursuit, amusement, sideline.
shew: (v) demonstrate, prove, show, contradict, establish, substantiate, support, sustain, indicate, exhibit, display. ANTONYM: (v) disprove. slay: (n, v) murder, assassinate; (v) dispatch, execute, slaughter, destroy, massacre, put to death, remove, finish, butcher.
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into every corner of a wench; sometimes, like a perriwig, I sit upon her brow; or, like a fan of feathers, I kiss her lips; indeed, I do--what do I not? But, fie, what a scent is here! I'll not speak another word, except the ground were % perfumed, and covered with cloth of arras. FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an old leathern bag: and, might I have my wish, I would desire that this house and all the people in it were turned to gold, that I might lock you up in my good chest: O, my sweet gold! FAUSTUS. What art thou, the third? WRATH. I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother: I leapt out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce half-an-hour old; and ever since I have run up and down the world with this case of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be my father. FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? ENVY. I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt. I am lean with seeing others eat. O, that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone! then thou shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? come down, with a vengeance! FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!--What art thou, the fifth?
Thesaurus arras: (n) hanging. begotten: (adj) generated, biological, create. churl: (adj, n) niggard; (n) peasant, clown, curmudgeon, crosspatch, skinflint, countryman, tyke, tike, scrooge; (adj) miser. ANTONYMS: (n) aristocrat, gentleman. covetousness: (n) cupidity, greed, rapacity, desire, stinginess, greediness, acquisitiveness,
vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal, avariciousness, avaritia, envy, enviousness. ANTONYM: (n) retaliation, requital, avengement, generosity. wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance; perfumed: (adj) fragrant, odoriferous, (n, v) avenge, resentment. ANTONYMS: (n) forgiveness, odorous, scented, sweet, honeyed, mellifluous, angelic, angelical, fresh, acceptance. gratifying. ANTONYM: (adj) withal: (adv) nevertheless, odorless. notwithstanding, however, even so, thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage. enough.
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GLUTTONY. Who I, sir? I am Gluttony. My parents are all dead, and the devil a penny they have left me, but a bare pension, and that is thirty meals a-day and ten bevers,--a small trifle to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, and well-beloved in every good town and city; her name was Mistress Margery March-beer. Now, Faustus, thou hast heard all my progeny; wilt thou bid me to supper? FAUSTUS. No, I'll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals.% GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? SLOTH. I am Sloth. I was begotten on a sunny bank, where I have lain ever since; and you have done me great injury to bring me from thence: let me be carried thither again by Gluttony and Lechery. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom. FAUSTUS. What are you, Mistress Minx, the seventh and last? LECHERY. Who I, sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish; and the first letter of my name begins with L. FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell! [Exeunt the SINS.]
Thesaurus a-day: (n) target date. parentage: (n) family, extraction, thence: (adv) therefore, thus, choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle, origin, descent, ancestry, lineage, therefrom, thereof, consequently, back up, clog up, gag, suffocate, foul, stock, birth, pedigree, kinship, then, so, thereafter, thenceforth, strangle, smother, obstruct. bloodline. since, on account of. ANTONYMS: (v) free, open, release, progeny: (n) posterity, child, children, thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that family, lineage, successor, seed; (n, v) point, in that respect, at that place, in unblock. gentlewoman: (n) lady, madam, that location; (adj) further, ulterior, issue, breed, brood, generation. sloth: (n) laziness, idleness, indolence, remoter, succeeding, more distant. dame, woman, noblewoman, doll, trifle: (n, v) play; (adj, n, v) trinket; (v) bird, adult female, noble, chick, lethargy, lazy, acedia, inactivity, dally, fiddle, flirt, fool, frivol; (n) ma'am. inaction, inertia, listlessness, godmother: (n) sponsor, godchild, slothfulness. ANTONYMS: (n) nothing, triviality, detail; (adj, n) godparent. energy, liveliness. bagatelle.
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LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! LUCIFER. Tut, Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight. FAUSTUS. O, might I see hell, and return again, How happy were I then! LUCIFER. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight. In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! This will I keep as chary as my life. LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] Come, Mephistophilis.% [Exeunt.] [Enter CHORUS.] CHORUS. Learned Faustus, To know the secrets of astronomy Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top,
Thesaurus chary: (adj) careful, cagey, cagy, guarded, frugal, wary, reluctant, safe, stingy, watchful, illiberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) careless, rash, imprudent, reckless, heedless, trusting, forgetful, unwary, eager. delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement, rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish, amuse, please, captivate, transport, enrapture. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, dismay, dissatisfaction, sadness, nuisance, discontent; (v) depress,
displease, sadden, irk; (n, v) bore. board, arise, advance, jump, increase; feeds: (n) feeding. (n) hill, mountain; (adj, v) ride. meantime: (adv) meanwhile, in the ANTONYMS: (v) drop, decrease, meantime, simultaneously; (n) wane, dismount; (n) valley, hollow. secrets: (n) secrecy. interval, interlude, while, at times, thanks: (n) acknowledgment, whiles, mean, instrument. mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, gratitude, blessing, grace, praise, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, gratefulness, recognition, credit, large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. benediction, thankfulness; (int) thank ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, you. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, insignificant. blame. mount: (n, v) rise, climb, frame; (v)
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Being%seated in a chariot burning bright, Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. He now is gone to prove cosmography, And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, To see the Pope and manner of his court, And take some part of holy Peter's feast, That to this day is highly solemniz'd. [Exit.] [Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.] FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier, Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, Not to be won by any conquering prince; From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; Then up to Naples, rich Campania, Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, Quarter the town in four equivalents: There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, The way he cut, an English mile in length, Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space; From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, That threats the stars with her aspiring top. Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: But tell me now what resting-place is this?
Thesaurus airy: (adj) light, windy, aery, aerial, ethereal, insubstantial, sprightly, perky, volatile, aeriform, aired. ANTONYMS: (adj) airless, hot, massive, wooden, weighty, substantial, stifling, sluggish, ponderous, musty, lumbering. chariot: (n) car, wagon, carriage, waggon, vehicle, wain, equipage, char. coasting: (adj) drugged; (v) to slide. conquering: (adj) triumphant,
winning, overcoming, glorious, proud, successful; (n) conquest, seizure, reverse, subjection, subjugation. fruitful: (adj) fertile, copious, profitable, abundant, plentiful, rich, fecund, good, fat, productive, lucrative. ANTONYMS: (adj) unproductive, barren, infertile, unfruitful, unprofitable, sterile, fruitless, destructive. stately: (adj) solemn, imposing,
elegant; (adj, v) noble, dignified, grand, proud, great; (adj, adv) regal, majestic, royal. ANTONYMS: (adj) boisterous, humble, modest, lowly. streets: (n) street. sumptuous: (adj) magnificent, luxurious, opulent, splendid, gorgeous, deluxe, costly, lush, lavish, grand, plush. ANTONYMS: (adj) unadorned, humble, ascetic, meager, scanty, impoverished.
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Hast thou, as erst I did command, Conducted me within the walls of Rome? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, I have taken up his Holiness' privy-chamber for our use. FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Tut, 'tis no matter; man; we'll be bold with his good cheer. And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive What Rome containeth to delight thee with, Know that this city stands upon seven hills That underprop the groundwork of the same: Just through the midst runs flowing Tiber's stream With winding banks that cut it in two parts; Over the which four stately bridges lean, That make safe passage to each part of Rome: Upon the bridge call'd Ponte Angelo Erected is a castle passing strong, Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, And double cannons fram'd of carved brass, As match the days within one complete year; Besides the gates, and high pyramides, Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa.% FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, Of Styx, of Acheron, and the fiery lake Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear That I do long to see the monuments And situation of bright-splendent Rome: Come, therefore, let's away.
Thesaurus erst: (adv) once, formerly, ago, time groundwork: (n) bottom, basis, base, was, over, whilom, heretofore, foundation, bed, ground, footing, previously, before, erewhile, at one bedrock, fundament, background, time. substructure. fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, midst: (adj, n) middle; (adv) mid, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, between; (prep) among, amid; (n) fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, v) core, center, thick, interior, heart, fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) waist. ordnance: (n) artillery, cannon, calm, passionless, dispassionate, indifferent, placid, gentle, cool; (adv) armament, munitions, arsenal, easygoing. weapons, heavy weapon, catapult, gates: (n) bill Gates. bricole, munition, ordinance.
underprop: (v) support, prop. unprovided: (adj) unorganized, unarranged, unbegun, untrimmed, unequipped, unready; (v) unsupplied. winding: (n) twist, wind, turn; (adj) indirect, crooked, circuitous, meandering, twisty, wandering; (adj, n) twisting, twisted. ANTONYMS: (adj) direct, unbent.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know you'd fain see the Pope, And take some part of holy Peter's feast, Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. FAUSTUS. Well, I'm content to compass then some sport, And by their folly make us merriment. Then charm me, that I May be invisible, to do what I please, Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. [Mephistophilis charms him.] MEPHISTOPHILIS. So, Faustus; now Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. [Sound a Sonnet. Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending.] POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, will't please you draw near? FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! POPE. How now! who's that which spake?--Friars, look about.% FIRST FRIAR. Here's nobody, if it like your Holiness. POPE. My lord, here is a dainty dish was sent me from the Bishop of Milan. FAUSTUS. I thank you, sir. [Snatches the dish.]
Thesaurus banquet: (v) junket, revel, regale; (n) charms: (n) trinkets, jewelry, jewels. thick. compass: (n) scope, range, room, dish: (n) basin, disk, plate, meal, party, celebration, carousal, treat, extent, area, circumference, reach; (n, platter, food, saucer, beauty, meat, entertainment, spread, dinner, reception. ANTONYM: (n) snack. v) round, grasp, circle; (v) get. repast; (n, v) hollow. charm: (n, v) allure, captivate, appeal, ANTONYM: (v) lose. folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, spell, fascinate, bewitch, conjure; (adj, dainty: (adj, v) nice; (adj, n, v) delicacy; tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity, v) attract; (n) amulet; (v) enchant, (adj) fastidious, savory, tasteful, craziness, density, freak; (adj, n) entrance. ANTONYMS: (n) ugliness, irrationality, trifling. ANTONYM: (n) squeamish, particular, mincing, refined; (adj, n) tidbit; (n) luxury. repulsion, repulsiveness, sense. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, vulgar, troop: (n) group, corps, gang, crowd, awkwardness, hatefulness, unpleasantness; (v) repulse, offend, rough, inelegant, harsh, gross, band, brigade, crew, herd, swarm, irritate, disgust, bore. awkward, accepting, heavy, careless, horde; (n, v) flock.
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POPE. % How now! who's that which snatched the meat from me? Will no man look?-My lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal of Florence. FAUSTUS. You say true; I'll ha't. [Snatches the dish.] POPE. What, again!--My lord, I'll drink to your grace. FAUSTUS. I'll pledge your grace. [Snatches the cup.] C. OF LOR. My lord, it may be some ghost, newly crept out of Purgatory, come to beg a pardon of your Holiness. POPE. It may be so.--Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury of this ghost.--Once again, my lord, fall to. [The POPE crosses himself.] FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. [The POPE crosses himself again.] Well, there's the second time. Aware the third; I give you fair warning. [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box of the ear; and they all run away.] Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, and candle.
Thesaurus candle: (n) candela, light, taper, bougie, CD, candlepower, lamp, wax light, Standard candle; (v) examine, illuminate. crossing: (n) transit, ford, intersection, hybridization, crossbreeding, passage, voyage, mating, crossway, crosswalk, cruise. cursed: (adj) damned, doomed, execrable, cussed, wretched, unlucky, accursed, blamed, blasted, confounded; (v) accurst.
ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, honorable, nice, sweet, kine. dirge: (n) coronach, threnode, threnody, requiem, lamentation, epicedium, elegy, song, monody; (adj) deep death song, nenia. fury: (n) anger, exasperation, force, resentment, delirium, furor, frenzy, indignation, craze; (adj, n) wrath, ferocity. ANTONYMS: (n) composure, calmness, mildness, calm, pleasure, serenity.
ghost: (n, v) apparition, specter; (n) shade, spirit, demon, soul, spook, spectre, goblin, appearance, monster. pledge: (n, v) bond, gage, wager, engage, promise, plight, guarantee, bet, contract; (n) assurance; (v) covenant. ANTONYM: (v) redeem. snatched: (adj) hasty, speedy, brief, hurried, quick, rapid, short, sudden, swift. ANTONYM: (adj) slow.
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FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,-Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, Because it is Saint Peter's holiday. [Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge.] FIRST FRIAR. Come, brethren, let's about our business with good devotion. [They sing.] Cursed be he that stole away his Holiness' meat from the table! maledicat Dominus! Cursed be he that struck his Holiness a blow on the face! maledicat Dominus! Cursed be he that took Friar Sandelo a blow on the pate! maledicat Dominus! Cursed be he that disturbeth our holy dirge! maledicat Dominus! Cursed be he that took away his Holiness' wine! maledicat Dominus? Et omnes Sancti! Amen! [MEPHISTOPHILIS %and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] [Enter CHORUS.] CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure ta'en the view Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, He stay'd his course, and so returned home; Where such as bear his absence but with grief, I mean his friends and near'st companions, Did gratulate his safety with kind words,
Thesaurus bell: (n, v) chime; (n) gong, Alexander Graham Bell, ring, doorbell, handbell, tocsin, alarum, Alexander Bell, buzz, angelus. bleat: (v) blat, kvetch, gripe, moan, whimper, cry, blate, quetch, utter, emit; (n) baaing. calf: (n) calves, calfskin, sura, foal, shorthorn, pup, kitten, colt, leather, kid, box calf. devotion: (n) allegiance, attachment, dedication, loyalty, worship,
mumble; (n, v) cry; (n) groan, affection, enthusiasm, fondness, devotedness; (adj, n) veneration, cottonwick. passion. ANTONYMS: (n) disloyalty, sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone, negligence, apathy, disobedience, intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch; (n, v) twitter, squeak. neglect, hatred, separation, stole: (n) wrap, stolen, scarf, stolon, dishonesty, infidelity. fling: (n, v) toss, throw, pitch, slam, stealing, robe, alb, tunicle, surplice, hurl; (v) chuck, shoot, dash, rush, alba, cassock. discard; (n) crack. ANTONYM: (v) struck: (adj, v) smitten; (v) stroke; (adj) collect. affected, afflicted, doting, dotty, grunt: (v) growl, croak, mutter, enamored, gaga, hurt, in love, complain, murmur, moan, clamor, infatuated.
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And in their conference of what befell, Touching his journey through the world and air, They put forth questions of astrology, Which Faustus answer'd with such learned skill As they admir'd and wonder'd at his wit. Now is his fame spread forth in every land: Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now Faustus is feasted 'mongst his noblemen. What there he did, in trial of his art, I leave untold; your eyes shall see['t] perform'd. [Exit.] [Enter ROBIN the Ostler, with a book in his hand.] ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor Faustus' conjuring-books, and, i'faith, I mean to search some circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so by that means I shall see more than e'er I felt or saw yet. [Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN.] RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; there's a gentleman tarries to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away.% ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece of work. RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst not read?
Thesaurus admirable: (adj) fine, outstanding, beautiful, great, commendable, lovely, good, creditable, praiseworthy, worthy, grand. ANTONYMS: (adj) appalling, poor, unworthy, despicable, contemptible, detestable, dishonorable, rotten, unimpressive, loathsome, low. chafing: (n) abrasion, soreness, tenderness, rubbing, resistance, roughness; (v) irritate, to chafe; (adj) impatient.
dismembered: (adj) broken. disguised, ornate, fuzzy, indistinct, e'er: (adv) ever, forever. soft, romantic, fussy, hidden, dim, roaring: (n) bellowing, roar, bellow, abundant, mild. thunder; (adj) booming, prosperous, stolen: (adj) stealed, stole, stealing, thriving, flourishing, deafening, steal, steals, furtive, stealthy, secret, noisy, boisterous. taken, misbegotten, sly. rubbed: (adj) polished, refined, terse, untold: (adj) infinite, incalculable, attrite, marked, accomplished, innumerable, vast, uncounted, unnumbered, unlimited, endless; (v) fretten. stark: (adj) severe, plain, bare, bleak, unsaid, untalked of, unpublished. desolate, mere, simple, bald, positive, ANTONYMS: (adj) little, minor, pure, barren. ANTONYMS: (adj) small, tiny, open, slight.
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ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, he for his forehead, she for her private study; she's born to bear with me, or else my art fails. RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring that e'er was invented by any brimstone devil. RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can make thee drunk with ippocras at any tabern in Europe for nothing; that's one of my conjuring works. RALPH. Our Master Parson says that's nothing. ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse-bread as long as he lives, of free cost.% ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our boots, which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the devil's name. [Exeunt.] [Enter ROBIN and RALPH with a silver goblet.]
Thesaurus brimstone: (n) native sulphur, sulfur, native sulfur, atomic number. drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto, drunken, inebriated; (adj, n) inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac, drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, clearheaded; (n) teetotaler. forehead: (n) brow, front, foreland, lineament, mut, phiz, physiognomy, visage, eyebrow, skull; (adv) foremost. foul: (adj, v) nasty, base, corrupt,
coarse; (adj) filthy, disgusting, evil, nice, understandable, lovable, unclean, putrid; (n, v) defile, soil. excusable, inoffensive, manageable. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure; invented: (adj) fictional, fabricated, (adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive, imaginary, unreal, fake, mythical, humane, attractive, honest, pleasing, legendary, fictive, fancied, fabulous, fragrant; (v) unclog. ben trovato. ANTONYMS: (adj) intolerable: (adj) unbearable, genuine, factual, true, actual. midnight: (n) dark, noon, hour. insupportable, painful, obnoxious, mistress: (n) dame, concubine, detestable, inexcusable, deplorable, undesirable, hard, excruciating, madame, inamorata, lady, lover, difficult. ANTONYMS: (adj) bearable, fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept tolerable, acceptable, reasonable, woman, missis.
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ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a simple purchase for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as long as this lasts. RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. ROBIN. Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally. [Enter VINTNER.] Drawer, I hope all is paid; God be with you!--Come, Ralph. VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid from you, ere you go. ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!--I scorn you; and you are but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. [Searches ROBIN.] ROBIN. How say you now? VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.--You, sir! RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter of truth.% VINTNER. Well, tone of you hath this goblet about you.
Thesaurus ashamed: (adj) hangdog, guilty, embarrassed, sheepish, remorseful, regretful, bashful, disconcerted, contrite, chagrined; (v) dashed. ANTONYMS: (adj) proud, arrogant, unremorseful, unashamed, pleased, blatant, bold, happy, unabashed, unrepentant. burden: (n, v) bother, weight, pack, burthen, trouble, clog, strain; (n) anxiety, bale, responsibility; (v) afflict. ANTONYMS: (v) relieve,
scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, lighten, free, disburden, alleviate, relax; (n, v) help; (n) tranquility, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride, slight; (n) contempt, derision, relaxation, peace, pleasure. goblet: (n) bowl, chalice, cup, mug, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value, grail, beaker, basin, tumbler, rummer, flask; (v) glass. approve, admire, accept; (n) gull: (n, v) fool, cheat, deceive; (v) admiration, commendation, humility. beguile, bamboozle, cod, befool, take vintner: (n) wine merchant, wine in, kid; (n) chump, cully. maker, shaper, maker, merchandiser, robin: (n) robin redbreast, robinmerchant. ruddock , robin-redbreast, American robin, thrush, old world robin.
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ROBIN. % You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me [Aside].--Sirrah you, I'll teach you to impeach honest men;--stand by;--I'll scour you for a goblet;--stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of Belzebub.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? ROBIN. I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum Periphrasticon-nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH].-[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. [Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then exit. They run about.] VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no goblet. RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's thy goblet, good Vintner. [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exits.] ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive me now, and I'll never rob thy library more. [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS.] MEPHISTOPHILIS. Monarch of Hell, under whose black survey Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, How am I vexed with these villains' charms? From Constantinople am I hither come, Only for pleasure of these damned slaves.
Thesaurus afore: (adv) ahead, along, before, forwards, formerly, beforehand, previously; (adj) erewhile, aforehand, theretofore, preceding. damned: (adj) accursed, doomed, blasted, condemned, damn, cussed, wretched, infernal, hateful, goddamned; (adv) damnably. ANTONYM: (adj) saved. drawer: (n) draftsman, drawers, till, designer, box car, cartoonist, commode, engraver, chest, case,
cleanse, graze, buff; (adj, v) flush. locker. impeach: (v) accuse, criminate, blame, ANTONYM: (v) dirty. censure, query, denounce, challenge, slaves: (n) helotry, bondsmen. question, condemn; (n, v) arraign, teach: (v) enlighten, educate, instruct, indict. coach, indoctrinate, drill, learn, kneel: (v) genuflect, cringe, stoop, bob, lecture, school; (adj, v) guide, show. vexed: (adj) troubled, irritated, angry, cry for quarter, dip, duck, humble oneself; (n) kneeling, knee, pestered, peeved, harassed, sore, movement. harried, uneasy, cross, offended. meanest: (adj) last, least. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, scour: (v) scrub, ransack, burnish, uncomplicated. abrade, furbish, polish, search,
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ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and be gone? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! [Exit.] ROBIN. How, into an ape! that's brave: I'll have fine sport with the boys; I'll get nuts and apples enow. RALPH. And I must be a dog. ROBIN. I'faith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. [Exeunt.] [Enter EMPEROR, FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS.] EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus, I have heard strange report of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged.% KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. [Aside.] FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far inferior to the
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accommodating, civil; (adj, n) benevolent, congenial, gentle. ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, boorish, discourteous, reserved, rude, abrupt, critical, unkind, hardhearted, harsh, poor. prejudiced: (adj) biased, partisan, bigoted, jaundiced, interested, opinionated, narrow, intolerant, colored, inequitable, subjective. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbiased, broadminded, balanced, impartial,
unprejudiced, objective, just, tolerant. presumption: (n) effrontery, confidence, assurance, premise, arrogance, guess, conjecture, surmise, insolence, impertinence, belief. ANTONYM: (n) respect. purse: (n) bag, pouch, money, handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook, pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease. sixpence: (n) bender, coin, teston, testern. witnesses: (n) audience.
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report men have published, and nothing answerable to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty shall command me. EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. As I was sometime solitary set Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose About the honour of mine ancestors, How they had won by prowess such exploits, Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, As we that do succeed, or they that shall Hereafter possess our throne, shall (I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree Of high renown and great authority: Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, The bright shining of whose glorious acts Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, As when I hear but motion made of him, It grieves my soul I never saw the man: If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, Where lies entomb'd this famous conqueror, And bring with him his beauteous paramour, Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire They us'd to wear during their time of life, Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live.% FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform.
Thesaurus answerable: (adj, v) amenable, liable, secret, private. ANTONYM: (adj) anonymity. riches: (n, v) money; (n) affluence, responsible, subject, exposed, bound; open. (v) uncommendable, exceptionable; prowess: (n) bravery, valor, art, abundance, fortune, opulence, plenty, (adj) conformable, adequate, heroism, proficiency, mastery, prosperity, exuberance, treasure, responsal. ANTONYMS: (adj) resources; (v) gold. expertise, gallantry, intrepidity, chivalry, skill. ANTONYMS: (n) sundry: (adj) several, different, irrefutable, unaccountable. beauteous: (adj) pretty, lovely, fair, inability, ineptitude. diverse, assorted, miscellaneous, renown: (n, v) fame; (n) glory, comely, good-looking, handsome, many, varied, mixed, divers, various; (n) sundries. ANTONYMS: (adj) stunning. distinction, eminence, notoriety, closet: (n) cupboard, cubicle, cell, kudos, name, popularity, prestige, uniform, homogeneous. prominence, honor. ANTONYMS: (n) thereunto: (adv) thereto. latrine, bathroom, wardrobe, water closet; (adj) clandestine, confidential, infamy, commonness; (adj)
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KNIGHT. I'faith, that's just nothing at all. [Aside.] FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in you, when you will confess the truth. [Aside.] FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that they both lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his paramour before the Emperor! FAUSTUS. How then, sir? KNIGHT. I'faith, that's as true as Diana turned me to a stag.% FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for you.--Mephistophilis, be gone. [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.]
Thesaurus consumed: (adj) exhausted, finished, state, asset, assets. magnificence, stateliness, greatness, flourishing: (adj) thriving, palmy, used up, worn, depleted, obsessed, king, royalty, highness. ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, possessed, lost, tired, immersed, healthy, successful, luxuriant, gone. booming, verdant, lush, auspicious, simplicity. deceased: (adj, n) departed; (n) dead favorable, rich. ANTONYMS: (adj) paramour: (n) love, courtesan, doxy, person, cadaver, decedent; (adj) arid, declining, fading, poor, mistress, lover, beau, sweetheart, favorite, odalisque; (adj) gallant, defunct, asleep, passed away, passed unhealthy. knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, leman. on, extinct, lifeless, late. ANTONYMS: (adj) living, awake, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, resemble: (v) seem, imitate, compare, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub. animated. correspond, to resemble, agree, look, estate: (n) land, order, demesne, rank, majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, simulate; (adj) look like; (n) nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, resemblance; (adv) alike. domain, property, acres, substance,
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KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, I'll be gone. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. I'll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. --Here they are, my gracious lord. [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER and his PARAMOUR.] EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial bodies of those two deceased princes. [Exeunt Spirits.] FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight that was so pleasant with me here of late? EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. [Exit ATTENDANT.] [Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head.] How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head.% KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock,
Thesaurus anon: (adv) directly, immediately, (adj, n) crescent; (v) stove in. grievous, ugly, flagitious, dreadful; ANTONYM: (adj) curved. (adj, v) grotesque. ANTONYMS: (adj) early, readily, soon, instantly, again, highness: (n) excellency, altitude, forthwith, promptly, shortly, rath. tiny, minute, beautiful, good, small, bachelor: (adj) single, unmarried, loftiness, nobility, greatness, lovely, attractive. unattached; (n) unmarried man, wart: (n) verruca, condyloma eminence, size, stateliness, majesty, graduate, knight bachelor, widower, high, grandeur. acuminatum, bulge, tit, growth, interrupting: (adj) cross, interchanged, lump, swelling, exostosis, bump, old bachelor, spinster, adult male, agamist. ANTONYMS: (adj) married; interpelling, meddlesome, adverse, protuberance, venereal wart. (n) husband. wretch: (n) victim, villain, scoundrel, defensive, contrary, interpellant, concave: (n) indentation, depression, interruptive. reprobate, reptile, miscreant, martyr, concavity; (adj) cavernous, biconcave, monstrous: (adj) huge, atrocious, object of compassion, poor devil, cupped, dipped, arched, indented; heinous, monster, immense, gigantic, prey, wreak.
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How dar'st thou thus abuse a gentleman? Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! there's no haste: but, good, are you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath done penance sufficient. FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:--and, sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.--Mephistophilis, transform him straight. [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] --Now, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, Expect from me a bounteous reward. [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis, the restless course That time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life, Calls for the payment of my latest years: Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us Make haste to Wertenberg.% MEPHISTOPHILIS. What, will you go on horse-back or on footFAUSTUS. Nay, till I'm past this fair and pleasant green, I'll walk on foot.
Thesaurus bounteous: (adj) bountiful, liberal, to come, great beyond, future life. ample, copious, plentiful, bighearted, humbly: (adv) lowly, meanly, generous, munificent, handsome, modestly, submissively, low, shyly, benevolent, affluent. ANTONYM: lowlily, naturally, regretfully, (adj) scarce. remorsefully, repentantly. entreaty: (n) plea, prayer, request, ANTONYMS: (adv) conceitedly, petition, adjuration, supplication, haughtily, pompously, suit, demand, desire, invocation; (v) ostentatiously, unrepentantly, solicitation. affluently, brashly, pretentiously. hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now injurious: (adj) evil, harmful, hurtful, on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter, destructive, bad, disadvantageous, afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity, time detrimental, adverse, deleterious,
inimical, damaging. ANTONYMS: (adj) healing, favorable, healthy, helpful, advantageous, beneficial. till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to. worthily: (adv) excellently, honorably, becomingly, praiseworthily, deservingly, splendidly, generously, meritoriously, virtuously, uprightly, goodly. ANTONYMS: (adv) badly, dishonorably.
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[Enter a HORSE-COURSER.] HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: mass, see where he is!-God save you, Master Doctor! FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars for your horse. FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take him. HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for me. MEPHISTOPHILIS. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money: [HORSE-COURSER gives FAUSTUS the money] my boy will deliver him to you. But I must tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the water, at any hand. HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, but not into the water.% HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not leave my horse for forty: if he had but the quality of hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye,
Thesaurus brave: (adj, n) bold, hardy; (adj) hand over, bring; (adj, v) utter. skirt, duck, avoid, circumvent, ANTONYMS: (v) capture, confine, equivocate; (n) barrier, hedging. audacious, fearless, courageous, virile, intrepid, valiant; (adj, v) ANTONYM: (v) confront. imprison, hold, oppress, enslave, endure; (v) defy, face. ANTONYMS: pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, restrain, retain, collect, withhold, (adj) cowardly, frightened, pathetic, shackle. invite, plead, beseech, appeal, gutless, afraid, cautious, fainthearted, ditch: (n) canal, channel, dike; (v) importune, adjure, invoke. meek, mousy, nervous; (v) skip. ANTONYM: (v) reject. desert, dump, chuck, abandon, buttock: (n) posterior, seat, croup, tail, discard, cut, leave; (n, v) moat. slick: (adj) clever, glib, glossy, silky, ANTONYMS: (v) accept, take, adopt, adroit, foxy, silken, crafty, cunning, rump, bottom, breech, posteriors, maintain; (n) ridge. artful; (adj, v) smooth. ANTONYMS: dorsum, loin, backside. deliver: (v) consign, bear, carry, save, dollars: (n) bread. (adj) dry, rough, unsophisticated, hedge: (v) fudge, dodge, elude, evade, shoddy, hesitant, dull. rescue, abandon, send, pronounce,
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sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell me what it is? FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts: Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. [Sleeps in his chair.] [Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying.] HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor Lopus was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had some rare quality that he would not have had me know of, I, like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass, where's your master? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him.% HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him.
Thesaurus alas: (adv) unluckily, regrettably, sadly, unhappily, sorry to say; (n) oh; (int) lackaday. ANTONYM: (adv) luckily. bade: (v) bid, command, bad. dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; (adj) precious, intimate, sweet. distrust: (n, v) mistrust, discredit; (n) suspicion, misgiving, disbelief, uncertainty, hesitation; (v) suspect, disbelieve, question; (adj) distrustful.
ANTONYMS: (n) confidence, faith, trustingness, certainty, belief, optimism; (v) believe, entrust, depend, confide. drowning: (n) masking, demersion. hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look. pond: (n) lake, mere, pool, plash, loch, fishpond, sea, tank, reservoir, millpond, broad. purgation: (n) purification, abreaction, katharsis, lustration, cleaning,
cleansing, cleanup, clearing, purging, purge, colonic. quoth: (v) quod. thief: (n) burglar, bandit, pirate, plunderer, filcher, stealer, pickpocket, pilferer, crook, brigand, despoiler. venturous: (adj) daring, adventurous, audacious, risky, hazardous, fearless, bold, foolhardy, rash, reckless, courageous.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS. Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time. HORSE-COURSER. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his glass-windows about his ears. MEPHISTOPHILIS. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll speak with him. MEPHISTOPHILIS. See, where he is, fast asleep. HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars for a bottle of hay! MEPHISTOPHILIS. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall I do? FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the officers.--My leg, my leg! MEPHISTOPHILIS. Come, villain, to the constable.% HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty dollars more! MEPHISTOPHILIS. Where be they?
Thesaurus asleep: (adj) sleeping, deceased, sleepy, dormant, numb, dead, sound asleep, snoozing, slumbering, napping, gone. ANTONYMS: (adj) up, attentive, alert, conscious. bottle: (n) container, jug, flask, cruet, vial, pot, phial, jar, decanter, carboy; (n, v) can. fast: (adj, v) firm; (adj) dissolute, instant, agile, staunch, quick, hurried, fixed, rapid; (adv) soon, hard. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, loosely,
sluggishly; (n) binge; (adj) sluggish, loose, unattached, plodding; (adj, adv) leisurely; (v) gorge, eat. forty: (adj, n) XL; (n) two score, forties; (adj) twoscore. hears: (v) hear. nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night. save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, maintain, preserve, free, protect, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) except; (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander, use, abandon,
endanger, capture, asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy. undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand, decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v) accursed, to be pitied, devoted. wake: (v) awaken, awake, rouse, stir, vigil, provoke, arouse, waken, excite; (n) train, trail. ANTONYMS: (v) nap, dissuade, discourage, snooze, stifle.
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HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry, and I'll give them you. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Be gone quickly. [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, and the Horsecourser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. [Enter WAGNER.] How now, Wagner! what's the news with thee? WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your company. FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom I must be no niggard of my cunning.--Come, Mephistophilis, let's away to him. [Exeunt.] [Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.] DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased me. FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. --But it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it.% DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes.
Thesaurus courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable, attentive, gracious, decorous, chivalrous, bland, thoughtful, urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite, boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff, improper, vulgar, unhelpful, neglectful, graceless. dainties: (n) delicacies, food, cates. desires: (n) requirements, needs. earnestly: (adj, adv) seriously; (adv) eagerly, intently, zealously, solemnly,
ardently, fervently, heartily, gravely, warmly, passionately. ANTONYMS: (adv) indifferently, insincerely, unconcernedly, jokingly. entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject. grapes: (v) clam, chupatty, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, chowder; (n) vintage. meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core,
kernel, heart, substance, marrow, crux, matter, beef. merriment: (n) fun, amusement, cheerfulness, hilarity, glee, jollity, frolic, gaiety, happiness, festivity; (adj, n) mirth. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, gloom, seriousness, despondency, boredom. niggard: (n) churl, skinflint, tightwad, scrooge, hunks, screw, scrimp, curmudgeon; (adj, n) miser; (adj) niggardly, stingy.
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FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, that's nothing!--Mephistophilis, be gone. [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it would content you, you should have it. [Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes.] Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of January, how you should come by these grapes. FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, Saba, and farther countries in the east; and by means of a swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. --How do you like them, madam? be they good? DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that e'er I tasted in my life before. FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you.% DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest beholding for this courtesy. FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward.
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graciousness, humanity, goodness, affection; (adj, n) courtesy, gentleness. ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, spite, nastiness, callousness, cruelty, unfriendliness, maliciousness, thoughtlessness, sourness, severity, disservice. madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd.
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[Exeunt.] [Enter%WAGNER.] WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, For he hath given to me all his goods: And yet, methinks, if that death were near, He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill Amongst the students, as even now he doth, Who are at supper with such belly-cheer As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. [Exit.] [Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS.] FIRST SCHOLAR. Master Doctor Faustus, since our conference about fair ladies, which was the beautifulest in all the world, we have determined with ourselves that Helen of Greece was the admirablest lady that ever lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us that favour, as to let us see that peerless dame of Greece, whom all the world admires for majesty, we should think ourselves much beholding unto you. FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, For that I know your friendship is unfeign'd, And Faustus' custom is not to deny The just requests of those that wish him well, You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, No otherways for pomp and majesty Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with her, And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. Be silent, then, for danger is in words.
Thesaurus beheld: (adj) visual. carouse: (n, v) carousal, wassail; (adj, n, v) booze; (adj, v) bouse; (v) riot, drink, roister; (n) bender, revelry, racket; (adj) tipple. ANTONYM: (v) lament. custom: (n) habit, convention, usage, practice, consuetude, fashion, method, mores; (n, v) use, accustom; (adj) bespoke. ANTONYMS: (n) fad, innovation, phenomenon, rage, rarity.
dame: (n) lady, female, queen, girl, superlative, unequaled, unmatchable. ANTONYM: (adj) vulnerable. gentlewoman, wench, skirt, matron, requests: (n) desires, requirements, madam, ma'am, woman. feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) needs, wants. entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, spoils: (n) prize, stolen goods, booty, celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) plunder, haul, swag, pickings, feed, eat. ANTONYMS: (v) abstain, trophy, boodle, prize money, starve; (n) snack. treasure. methinks: (adv) meseems. supper: (n) meal, tea, lunch, repast, peerless: (adj) matchless, nonpareil, reception, mealtime, siesta, social affair; (v) dejeuner, bever, whet. unique, unmatched, unrivaled, one and only, inimitable, supreme,
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[Music%sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.] SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, Whom all the world admires for majesty. THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursu'd With ten years' war the rape of such a queen, Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Nature's works, And only paragon of excellence, Let us depart; and for this glorious deed Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] [Enter an OLD MAN.] OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail To guide thy steps unto the way of life, By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, Tears falling from repentant heaviness Of thy most vile and loathsome filthiness, The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin As no commiseration may expel, But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt.
Thesaurus commiseration: (n) pity, compassion, sympathy, condolence, ruth, mercy, commiserate, bowels, consolation, fellow feeling, acknowledgement. evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, ever; (adv) everlastingly, forevermore, perpetually, ever and again, for all time, until the end of time. ANTONYMS: (adv) temporarily, suddenly. flagitious: (adj) heinous, atrocious, wicked, evil, monstrous, criminal,
nefarious, felonious, vicious, noble, inoffensive, pleasant, grievous; (adj, v) flagrant. admirable, good, attractive. heinous: (adj) atrocious, grievous, evil, paragon: (n) exemplar, ideal, model, wicked, flagrant, flagitious, perfection, paradigm, pattern, monstrous, hateful; (adj, v) gross, jimdandy, idol; (adj, n) beau ideal; (adj) phenix, pink. nefarious, infamous. ANTONYM: (adj) good. repentant: (adj) contrite, remorseful, loathsome: (adj) foul, hideous, regretful, sorry, apologetic, ashamed, distasteful, disgusting, hateful, compunctious, penitential, rueful, abominable, revolting, execrable, humble, doing penance. ANTONYMS: (adj) impenitent, loathly, nauseous, horrible. ANTONYMS: (adj) delightful, nice, unremorseful, glad.
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FAUSTUS. % Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die! Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice Says, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost come;" And Faustus now will come to do thee right. [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, And, with a vial full of precious grace, Offers to pour the same into thy soul: Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? I do repent; and yet I do despair: Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: What shall I do to shun the snares of death? MEPHISTOPHILIS. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul For disobedience to my sovereign lord: Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh.
Thesaurus conquest: (n) defeat, triumph, conquering, achievement, reduction, coup, rout, overthrow, subjection, mastery, success. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, loss, victory. disobedience: (n) contumacy, intractableness, rebelliousness, breach, recalcitrance, rebellion, refusal, noncompliance, mutiny, contravention, defiance. ANTONYMS: (n) compliance, meekness, conformity, devotion,
order, fulfillment, loyalty. flee, refuse, shirk, ostracize, banish, o'er: (adv) on, upon, across. parry; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS: ponder: (v) meditate, consider, (v) befriend, invite, seek, welcome, cogitate, deliberate, think, reflect, woo, court, participate, include. conceive, mull, mull over; (n, v) traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, muse, study. ANTONYMS: (v) Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) decide, wander, ignore. pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter, insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalist, patriot. stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem, infuse; (n, v) overflow. ANTONYMS: vial: (n) ampul, ampoule, bottle, flask, (v) drizzle, trickle. stoup, noggin, ampule, beaker, shun: (v) evade, escape, elude, dodge, container, syringe, cruet.
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FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord To pardon my unjust presumption, And with my blood again I will confirm My former vow I made to Lucifer. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Do it, then, quickly, with unfeigned heart, Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, With greatest torments that our hell affords. MEPHISTOPHILIS. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; But what I may afflict his body with I will attempt, which is but little worth. FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee, To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-That I might have unto my paramour That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean Those thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer.% MEPHISTOPHILIS. Faustus, this, or what else thou shalt desire, Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. [Re-enter HELEN.] FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
Thesaurus afflict: (n, v) pain, distress; (v) trouble, grieve, torment, hurt, strike, aggrieve, smite, bother, disturb. ANTONYMS: (v) aid, comfort, encourage, help, soothe. crave: (v) covet, ask, want, beseech, implore, wish, long, entreat, desire, fancy, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, spurn, loathe, hate, detest, grant. dissuade: (v) discourage, deter, advise, remonstrate, divert, expostulate,
(n, v) undersupply; (n) emptiness, dehort, hinder, repress, reason, detain. ANTONYMS: (v) persuade, scarcity, lack, dearth, deficit; (v) encourage, induce, influence. nibble, empty. extinguish: (v) destroy, exterminate, twinkling: (n) moment, jiffy, minute, eradicate, douse, annihilate, second, flash, trice, twinkle, wink, split second, breath; (adj) sparkling. consume, wipe out, end, suppress, quash; (adj, v) allay. ANTONYMS: (v) ANTONYM: (adj) dull. unfeigned: (adj) sincere, true, genuine, ignite, build, create, encourage, inflame, sustain, protect. honest, unaffected, heartfelt, truthful, glut: (v) fill, cloy, cram, stuff, deluge, frank, hearty, straight, natural. satiate; (n) excess, plethora; (n, v) surfeit, flood, gorge. ANTONYMS:
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And%burnt the topless towers of Ilium-Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-[Kisses her.] Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. I will be Paris, and for love of thee, Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd; And I will combat with weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appear'd to hapless Semele; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms; And none but thou shalt be my paramour! [Exeunt.] [Enter the OLD MAN.] OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven, And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat! [Enter DEVILS.] Satan begins to sift me with his pride: As in this furnace God shall try my faith, My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile
Thesaurus dross: (n) trash, rubbish, scoria, refuse, furnace: (n) forge, heater, blast ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, slag, waste, impurity, dregs, garbage, furnace, fireplace, hearth, stove, forgettable, perishable, temporary. plumed: (adj) plumate, crested, offal, cinder. oven, kiln, electric furnace, cupola, dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, crematorium. emplumed, plumy, plumose, hapless: (adj) unlucky, poor, wretched, decorated, flying, feathery. live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) luckless, miserable, sad, unhappy, ill- sift: (v) screen, filter, investigate, wander. fated, inauspicious, jinxed, untoward. riddle, sieve, examine, sprinkle, flaming: (adj, n) burning, ardent, ANTONYM: (adj) fortunate. separate, sort; (n, v) scrutinize, glowing, passionate; (adj) blazing, immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, analyze. ablaze, aflame, hot; (n) enthusiastic, undying, endless, monumental; (adj, topless: (adj) unclothed. flame, fire. ANTONYMS: (adj) v) deathless, imperishable, towers: (n) edifice. celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. extinguished, placid, gentle, quiet.
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At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. [Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] [Enter FAUSTUS, with SCHOLARS.] FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes he not? comes he not? SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being over-solitary. FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians to cure him. --'Tis but a surfeit; never fear, man. FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body and soul.% SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember God's mercies are infinite. FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both
Thesaurus eternally: (adv) always, permanently, incessantly, perpetually, constantly, ceaselessly, endlessly, unendingly, unceasingly, lastingly; (adj, adv) forever. ANTONYMS: (adv) briefly, sporadically. gentlemen: (n) sirs, messieurs. infinite: (adj) absolute, eternal, endless, countless, immense, incalculable, boundless, innumerable, immeasurable, everlasting, spaceless. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, limited,
restricted, small, tiny, slight. rattlesnake, colubrid, contrafagotto, pants: (n) knickers, trousers, drawers, cor anglais, hautboy; (v) goose. knickerbockers, underpants, chinos, surfeit: (n) overabundance, excess, cords, denim, bloomers, flannel, knee repletion, satiety, plethora, overflow, congestion; (v) cloy, gorge, satiate, pants. repulse: (n, v) rebuff, defeat; (v) repel, pall. ANTONYMS: (n) shortage, need, necessity, deficit; (v) deplete. nauseate, disgust, drive back, revolt, reject, refuse, beat back; (n) refusal. tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v) quiver, ANTONYMS: (v) attract, accept, shudder, thrill, palpitate; (adj, v) delight, yield, please; (n, v) welcome. totter, quake; (n) throb; (v) flutter, serpent: (n) snake, ophidian, viper, quail, falter. ANTONYMS: (v) steady, snake in the grass, reptile, calm.
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Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they hold them, they hold them! ALL. Who, Faustus? FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them my soul for my cunning! ALL. God forbid! FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me.% FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, that divines might have prayed for thee? FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me.
Thesaurus blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed, sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted, fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, condemned, damned, disapproved, unhappy, unholy, secular. divinity: (n) God, theology, divineness, immortal, godship, godhead, spirit, demiurge, apologetics, demigod; (adj, n) the Deity. ANTONYM: (n) devil. felicity: (n) happiness, bliss,
ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) blessedness, beatitude, luck, felicitousness, joy, fortune, ecstasy, survive, live, appear. stays: (n) bodice, stay, girdle, panty enjoyment, appropriateness. ANTONYM: (n) infelicity. girdle, stayed, staying, foundation, forbade: (v) prohibit, to prohibit. corselette, sash, slip, corselet. forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet, whimper; (n) tear. frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, authorize, stand. judicial writ, injunction, order, act, perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, prescription, scripture, writing, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass, ukase.
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SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save Faustus? FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. THIRD SCHOLAR. God will strengthen me; I will stay with Faustus. FIRST SCHOLAR. Tempt not God, sweet friend; but let us into the next room, and there pray for him. FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have mercy upon thee. FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. ALL. Faustus, farewell.% [Exeunt SCHOLARS.--The clock strikes eleven.] FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Thesaurus bare: (adj) naked, austere, bald, stark, bleak, exposed, desolate, plain; (adj, v) empty, vacant; (v) show. ANTONYMS: (adj) cultivated, ornate, concealed, elaborate, adorned, decorated, dressed, clothed, embellished; (v) cover, conceal. farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, salutation, welcome.
mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, capture; (v) endanger, lose, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, aggravate. grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) strengthen: (v) confirm, corroborate, quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, brace, enhance, encourage, harshness, unkindness, severity, invigorate, intensify, fortify, toughen, stiffen, increase. ANTONYMS: (v) mercilessness, ruthlessness, impatience, inhumanity. undermine, damage, sap, decrease, rescue: (n, v) release, ransom, salvage; atrophy, demoralize, dilute, (n) deliverance, delivery, relieve; (v) diminish, exhaust, reduce. extricate, recover, free, save, redeem. yourselves: (pron) themselves, myself, ANTONYMS: (n) involvement, loss, herself. abandonment, downfall; (n, v)
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O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?-See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!-Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! No, no! Then will I headlong run into the earth: Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! You stars that reign'd at my nativity, Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. Into %the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], That, when you vomit forth into the air, My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! [The clock strikes the half-hour.] Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon O God, If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, Impose some end to my incessant pain; Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd! O, no end is limited to damned souls! Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul?
Thesaurus ascend: (n, v) mount; (v) arise, scale, uprise, climb, go up, come up, increase, elevate; (n) ascending, ascent. ANTONYMS: (v) descend, drop, decline, fall, lower, set, sink. foggy: (adj) hazy, misty, brumous, murky, blurred, bleary, fuzzy, opaque, thick, indefinite, nebulous. ANTONYMS: (adj) precise, sunny. gape: (v) gawk, yawn, open, glare, goggle, split, dehisce, ogle, see; (adj, n) stare; (n, v) look.
headlong: (adj, adv) headfirst; (adv) directly, hastily, precipitately; (adj) rash, hurried, desperate, precipitous, impetuous, sudden, precipitate. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautiously, considered; (adv) carefully. incessant: (adj) endless, continual, everlasting, eternal, constant, continuous, perpetual, unremitting, interminable, persistent; (adj, v) frequent. ANTONYMS: (adj) intermittent, occasional, sporadic,
broken, finite. ireful: (adj) irate, angry, heated, acrimonious, greatly incensed, incensed, irascible. labouring: (adj) drudging, work, working, busy, toiling. twill: (adj, v) curl, wrinkle; (adj) corded, crisp; (v) braid, plexus, felt, plat, plait, mesh; (n) cloth. vomit: (n, v) spew, puke, sick; (v) heave, throw up, retch, disgorge, cast, gag, eject; (n) vomiting.
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Or%why is this immortal that thou hast? Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd Unto some brutish beast! all beasts are happy, For, when they die, Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. [The clock strikes twelve.] O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! [Thunder and lightning.] O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! [Enter DEVILS.] My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis! [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] [Enter CHORUS.] CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
Thesaurus brutish: (adj) brutal, barbarous, bestial, brute, savage, fierce, boorish, ferocious, cruel, indelicate; (adj, adv) beastly. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, humane, refined. deepness: (n) profundity, profoundness, thickness, consistency, viscosity, astuteness, abstruseness, gravity, lowness, intensity, huskiness. ANTONYMS: (n) shallowness, height, flippancy. entice: (n, v) lure, attract, seduce,
tempt; (v) cajole, bait, draw, charm, n) stare; (n, v) look. coax, allure, captivate. ANTONYMS: hellish: (adj, v) diabolic, satanic; (adj) (v) dissuade, repulse, discourage, infernal, diabolical, fiendish, force. demonic, beastly, wicked, unholy, exhort: (v) admonish, urge, advise, detestable; (v) mephistophelian. advocate, caution, expostulate, press, metempsychosis: (n) rebirth, counsel, entreat, bid, goad. phenomenon, reincarnation, ANTONYMS: (v) prohibit, block, mutagenesis transanimation, discourage, dissuade, restrain, conversion. ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not. demand. gape: (v) gawk, yawn, open, glare, goggle, split, dehisce, ogle, see; (adj,
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To practice more than heavenly power permits. [Exit.] % Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus.
Thesaurus heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, dominion, faculty; (n) potency, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, energy, control, authority, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, domination, strength. ANTONYMS: sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, (n) powerlessness, helplessness, miserable, infernal, hellish, weakness, inability, subjugation, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent. moderation, calmness, meekness, opus: (n) work, piece of music, piece, inferiority, feebleness, ease. writing, octet, musical composition, practice: (n, v) exercise, drill, discipline, use; (n) fashion, medley, canon, divertimento, duet, bagatelle. convention, habitude, habit, power: (n, v) might, ability, influence, experience, form, observance.
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GLOSSARY abbreviated: (adj) short, abridged, abbreviate, condensed, truncated, brief, compendious, cut, truncate, concise, reduced ability: (n) hand, power, faculty, dexterity, aptitude, capacity, expertise, flair, genius; (adj, n) cleverness; (adj, n, v) talent. ANTONYMS: (n) inability, injury, incompetence, ineptitude, paralysis, limitation, weakness, stupidity, ineptness, ignorance, impotence abjure: (v) renounce, recant, abdicate, deny, forswear, disavow, abandon, reject, recall, repudiate, revoke able: (adj) dexterous, competent, clever, ingenious, accomplished, gifted, effective, fit, expert; (adj, n) talented, efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj) incapable, incompetent, weak, untrained, inept, delicate, feeble, infirm, clumsy, ineffective, ineffectual above: (adv, prep) beyond, aloft, on, in excess of; (adv) up, supra, on top; (adj) preceding, former; (adj, prep) past; (prep) surpassing. ANTONYMS: (prep) beneath, under, deficient, underneath; (adj) inferior, following absence: (n) absenteeism, deficiency, lack, default, dearth, want, nonattendance, scarcity, paucity, shortage, privation. ANTONYMS: (n) attendance, existence, fulfillment, inclusion, occurrence, abundance, glut, confirmation, supply, excess abuse: (n, v) affront, insult, outrage, reproach, harm, wrong; (v) mistreat, injure, violate; (adj, v) maltreat, profane. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect; (v) compliment, protect, nurture, laud, honor, help, flatter; (n) compliments, kindness, flattery accomplish: (v) perform, reach, do, compass, perfect, attain, make,
fulfill, realize, execute, carry out. ANTONYMS: (v) abandon, neglect, choke, blow, lose accord: (n) agreement, consensus, harmony; (n, v) consent, concord, assent; (adj, v) agree; (v) give, bestow, suit, grant. ANTONYMS: (n) discord, strife, antagonism, hostility, friction, dissidence, dissension; (n, v) conflict; (v) withhold, question, oppose accursed: (adj) execrable, abominable, detestable, accurst, hateful, damned, damnable, maledict, blasted; (v) atrocious, stranded acknowledge: (v) recognize, confess, accept, profess, own, admit, concede, appreciate, notice, declare, approve. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, overlook, reject, repudiate, snub, refuse, renounce, abjure, disavow, disregard, refute adam: (n) ecstasy, x; (adj) sin a-day: (n) target date adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale, valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio, adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYM: (n) greeting adjunct: (n) addendum, addition, appendage, extra, attachment, adjutant, increment, coadjutor; (adj, n) assistant; (adj) auxiliary, appurtenant. ANTONYMS: (n) lessening, detriment admirable: (adj) fine, outstanding, beautiful, great, commendable, lovely, good, creditable, praiseworthy, worthy, grand. ANTONYMS: (adj) appalling, poor, unworthy, despicable, contemptible, detestable, dishonorable, rotten, unimpressive, loathsome, low advise: (v) recommend, propose, warn, inform, acquaint, suggest, notify, announce, tell, offer, forewarn. ANTONYMS: (v) betray, deceive, delude, fool, trick
afflict: (n, v) pain, distress; (v) trouble, grieve, torment, hurt, strike, aggrieve, smite, bother, disturb. ANTONYMS: (v) aid, comfort, encourage, help, soothe afore: (adv) ahead, along, before, forwards, formerly, beforehand, previously; (adj) erewhile, aforehand, theretofore, preceding africa: (n) Afric, Rana Goliath, genus Dovyalis, Goliath frog, Negro peach, Dovyalis again: (adv) more, then, repeatedly, anew, encore, furthermore, yet, also, often, once again, once more against: (adj, adv) counter; (prep) toward, versus, from; (pref) by; (v) oppose; (adv, prep) on; (n) opposition; (adj) unwilling, repugnant; (adv) athwart. ANTONYMS: (prep) for; (adj) eager airy: (adj) light, windy, aery, aerial, ethereal, insubstantial, sprightly, perky, volatile, aeriform, aired. ANTONYMS: (adj) airless, hot, massive, wooden, weighty, substantial, stifling, sluggish, ponderous, musty, lumbering alas: (adv) unluckily, regrettably, sadly, unhappily, sorry to say; (n) oh; (int) lackaday. ANTONYM: (adv) luckily alexander: (n) Alexanders, horse parsley, black lovage allied: (adj) related, confederate, united, cognate, connected, joined, relative, near, associated, linked, confederative. ANTONYMS: (adj) unrelated, disunited, independent, sole, unfriendly, unconnected, unallied allotted: (adj) agreed, chosen, fixed, selected almain: (n) Almayne, Alman almost: (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv) nearly, all but, near, nigh; (adv, prep) just about, approximately;
72 (adv) just, mostly, virtually, most. ANTONYMS: (adv) surely, exactly, definitely, certainly alone: (adj) forlorn, individual, lonely, lonesome; (adj, adv) only, apart; (adv) solely, entirely, exclusively, separately, individually. ANTONYMS: (adj) overshadowed, ordinary, mobbed, equaled, crowded, accompanied, common, grouped, surpassed; (adv) jointly; (n) foe already: (adv) beforehand, previously, before, formerly, even now, just now, at present, once, heretofore, yet, in advance altar: (n) shrine, Communion table, sanctuary, table, structure, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, construction, examination hall, holy of Holies alter: (v) change, adapt, move, convert, adjust, amend, affect, transform, correct, vary, shift. ANTONYMS: (v) continue, keep, leave, preserve, worsen, retain, standardize, straighten, clarify although: (adv, prep) notwithstanding; (prep) in spite of, even though, however; (adv, conj) though; (conj) whereas; (adv) even, tho, when, anyway, tho' always: (adv) continuously, whenever, permanently, ever, usually, eternally, unceasingly; (adj) perpetual, still, eternal; (adj, adv) without exception. ANTONYMS: (adv) erratically, intermittently, temporarily amen: (adj) right, correct; (n) Amon; (adv) positively, yes america: (n) United States, United States of America, USA, us, American, north, Psilotum nudum, New world, union, Columbia, the Americas among: (prep) between, amidst, mid, in, amongst, in the middle of, inter, in the midst of, with, within, middle. ANTONYM: (prep) outside amongst: (prep) amid, between, amidst, surrounded by, in the midst of, in the middle of, along with, with; (v) inter angel: (n, v) sponsor, support; (n) backer, cherub, messenger, patron, benefactor, saint; (adj) Dulcinea, goddess; (adj, n) darling. ANTONYMS: (n) fiend, devil, jerk, demon angry: (adj) anger, furious, provoked, incensed, vehement, fierce, irate, raging, maddened, shirty,
Dr. Faustus indignation. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleased, gentle, joyful, content, euphoric, mild, happy, resigned, joyous, gleeful, quiet anon: (adv) directly, immediately, early, readily, soon, instantly, again, forthwith, promptly, shortly, rath another: (adj) second, more, alternative, additional, new, further, fresh, extra; (adj, v) other; (adj, pron) some other; (n) the other. ANTONYMS: (n, pron) same answerable: (adj, v) amenable, liable, responsible, subject, exposed, bound; (v) uncommendable, exceptionable; (adj) conformable, adequate, responsal. ANTONYMS: (adj) irrefutable, unaccountable apparel: (n, v) garb, attire, garment, array, vesture; (n) clothing, finery, costume, clothes; (v) adorn, clothe appear: (v) occur, seem, sound, come out, turn up, show, emerge, break, arrive, feel, arise. ANTONYMS: (v) vanish, hide, stop, sink, recede, go, depart argue: (v) contend, quarrel, oppose, altercate, debate, declare, contest, discuss, convince; (n, v) reason, question. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, harmonize, assent, concur, abstain, comply, dissuade argument: (n) proof, debate, matter, controversy, hassle, independent variable, contention, difference, justification, discussion, fight. ANTONYMS: (n) harmony, concord, accord, consensus, accusation, defense armour: (n) armature, buckler, armour plate, cataphract arras: (n) hanging arrest: (n, v) halt, check, catch, capture, hold, collar; (n) apprehension, custody; (v) apprehend, retard, inhibit. ANTONYMS: (n, v) discharge; (v) liberate, promote, forward, encourage, activate, advance, prompt, help; (n) freeing, liberation arrive: (n, v) come, appear; (v) mature, reach, attain, succeed, turn up, land, fall, get in, show. ANTONYMS: (v) go, depart, fail, fall, lose, exit articles: (n) canons, articles of agreement, equipment, statute, doctrine, system of opinions, stock, school ascend: (n, v) mount; (v) arise, scale, uprise, climb, go up, come up, increase, elevate; (n) ascending,
ascent. ANTONYMS: (v) descend, drop, decline, fall, lower, set, sink ashamed: (adj) hangdog, guilty, embarrassed, sheepish, remorseful, regretful, bashful, disconcerted, contrite, chagrined; (v) dashed. ANTONYMS: (adj) proud, arrogant, unremorseful, unashamed, pleased, blatant, bold, happy, unabashed, unrepentant aside: (adv) apart, away, beside, alongside, in reserve, off, abreast; (adj, adv) by; (n) digression, divagation, parenthesis. ANTONYMS: (adv) erectly, uprightly, vertically asleep: (adj) sleeping, deceased, sleepy, dormant, numb, dead, sound asleep, snoozing, slumbering, napping, gone. ANTONYMS: (adj) up, attentive, alert, conscious aspects: (adj) moods, features aspiring: (adj) aspirant, wishful, enterprising, envious, desirous, coming; (v) aspire, vaulting. ANTONYM: (adj) desperate attain: (v) make, reach, achieve, acquire, gain, strike, catch, arrive at, find, obtain, come to. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, fail, abandon, surrender, differ attempt: (n, v) endeavor, offer, struggle, assay, essay, attack; (n) effort, trial; (v) undertake, chance, aim. ANTONYMS: (n) success, fulfillment, achievement, accomplishment; (v) succeed, fulfill, achieve, accomplish, perform attend: (n, v) tend, escort, nurse, conduct; (v) assist, serve, minister, aid, look, partake, follow. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave, ignore, disregard, desert, abandon attendants: (n) entourage, followers, retinue, tendance, persons present, suite attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, nursing, care, appearing, observation; (adj) concomitant, attendant, ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, inattention attentive: (adj) assiduous, diligent, heedful, watchful, observant, advertent, mindful, careful, aware, alert, respectful. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfocused, negligent, neglectful, forgetful, heedless, unobservant, rude, unprepared, unconscious, uncaring, inconsiderate audacious: (adj) brash, arrogant, barefaced, bold, daring, impudent,
Christopher Marlowe intrepid, brave, shameless, enterprising, insolent. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, timid, cautious, polite, reserved, meek, humble, fearful, discreet, respectful avoid: (v) shun, parry, avert, escape, evade, ward off, duck, circumvent, prevent, ignore; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS: (v) associate, tackle, face, validate, participate, invite, seek, embrace, court, permit, encourage aware: (adj) awake, attentive, conscious, realize, vigilant, perceive, mindful, heedful, alive, sentient, sensible. ANTONYMS: (adj) unconscious, insensitive, ignorant, unfamiliar, unwitting, incognizant, unmindful, unconcerned, unprepared, oblivious, indifferent away: (adj, adv) abroad, absent; (adj, adv, int) out; (adj) distant; (adv) aside, aloof, afar, way, by, forth; (adv, int) off. ANTONYMS: (adj) adjacent, neighboring, nearby, near, close; (adv) intermittently, haltingly, discontinuously, in awful: (adj) fearful, dreadful, terrible, abominable, appalling, nasty, abhorrent, atrocious, bad, horrible, lousy. ANTONYMS: (adj) excellent, wonderful, marvelous, great, lovely, nice, pleasant, beautiful, pleasing, good, minor babes: (n) babies, babe bachelor: (adj) single, unmarried, unattached; (n) unmarried man, graduate, knight bachelor, widower, old bachelor, spinster, adult male, agamist. ANTONYMS: (adj) married; (n) husband backward: (adj, adv) late, behindhand; (adj) tardy, retarded, reluctant, coy, slow, laggard, dilatory; (adv) behind, backwardly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) ahead; (adv) onward; (adj) quick, developing, advanced, confident, brilliant, bold bacon: (n) Francis bacon, statesman, solon, philosopher, lard, gammon, livelihood, pay, middlings, Roger bacon, salary bade: (v) bid, command, bad band: (n) cluster, set, party, swathe, lace, knot, collar, circle, strip, zone, company. ANTONYMS: (v) disperse, divide, scatter, disband bank: (n) dam, coast, limit, stack; (n, v) store, slope, gradient, embankment, heap, hill; (v) deposit. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, spend,
align, disburse, distrust, plumb, straighten; (n) hollow banks: (n) thumb index, sir Joseph Banks, sidewalls, bank shares, bank balance banquet: (v) junket, revel, regale; (n) party, celebration, carousal, treat, entertainment, spread, dinner, reception. ANTONYM: (n) snack bare: (adj) naked, austere, bald, stark, bleak, exposed, desolate, plain; (adj, v) empty, vacant; (v) show. ANTONYMS: (adj) cultivated, ornate, concealed, elaborate, adorned, decorated, dressed, clothed, embellished; (v) cover, conceal base: (adj) abject, mean, dishonorable, low, vile, ignoble, bad, contemptible; (n) foundation; (n, v) ground; (v) found. ANTONYMS: (n) top, summit, frill, ceiling, apex; (adj) noble, honest, good, principled, grand, pleasant basely: (adv) vilely, bottomly, sordidly, shamefully, foully, menially, lowly, depravedly, villainously, badly, poorly bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit, abide, allow, wear, comport, tolerate, convey, teem. ANTONYMS: (v) release, avoid, destroy, dodge, take, eradicate, evade, kill, refuse, erase; (n) bull beast: (n) animal, monster, swine, fiend, creature, scavenger, savage, critter, animate being, barbarian; (adj) bear. ANTONYM: (n) man beasts: (n) stock beat: (n, v) pulse, throb, tick, flap, knock; (v) batter, whip, trounce, pulsate, bat; (n) round. ANTONYMS: (v) protect, help, divide, cede, aid, separate, surrender; (adj) invigorated, energized; (n) caress, pat beaten: (adj) overpowered, routed, conquered, overcome, prostrate, frothy, trounced, worsted; (v) beat, lose, fail. ANTONYMS: (adj) heartened, uplifted, triumphant, encouraged, loose beauteous: (adj) pretty, lovely, fair, comely, good-looking, handsome, stunning beauty: (n) attractiveness, beaut, charm, pulchritude, loveliness, exquisiteness, grace, grandeur, looker, good looks; (adj) beautiful. ANTONYMS: (n) hag, plainness, shortcoming, flaw, witch, dog, disadvantage, detraction,
73 repulsiveness, eyesore, awkwardness become: (v) grow, suit, be, match, come about, arise, get, sit, to become, fall; (adj) becoming. ANTONYMS: (v) halt, stay, lower, stop, reduce, clash becomes: (v) become beelzebub: (n) Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, fiend, Satan, Zamiel, the Devil, Samael, Old Nick, the tempter before: (adv) ahead, ago, in front, previously, already, forth; (adv, prep) fore, afore; (adj) preceding, prior; (adj, adv) earlier. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) later, behind, afterward, after; (adv) subsequently, ahead; (adj) subsequent begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate, become, enter, rise, originate, undertake, create, dawn, set out. ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease, terminate, die, delay, complete, conclude begotten: (adj) generated, biological, create beheld: (adj) visual behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook beholding: (n) fusion, seeing, visual perception, look belike: (adv) probably, likely, presumably, perhaps, believably, in all probability bell: (n, v) chime; (n) gong, Alexander Graham Bell, ring, doorbell, handbell, tocsin, alarum, Alexander Bell, buzz, angelus bends: (n) caisson disease, aeroembolism, air embolism, bend, gas embolism, compressed air sickness bequeath: (n, v) will; (v) leave, give, pass on, demise, entrust, endow, devise, transmit, remember, donate. ANTONYMS: (v) disown, withdraw, take best: (adj, n) supreme, most, elite; (adj) superior, great, leading, choice, superlative; (v) beat, outdo; (adj, n, v) top. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) worst; (v) lose, surrender; (adj) minimum, lowest, least, inferior, incorrect, fewest; (n) loser; (adv) insincerely better: (adj, v) improve, mend; (adj, adv, v) best; (v) recover, ameliorate, emend, reform, advance, enhance, surpass; (n) bettor. ANTONYMS:
74 (adj, adv) worse; (adj, n) inferior; (v) worsen, deteriorate; (adj) lesser, lower, tinier, ill, unhealthy, smaller, sicker bible: (n) scripture, scriptures, book, Holy Scripture, word of God, good book, bibliography, bibliotheca, Holy Bible, handbook, word bill: (n, v) placard; (n) beak, card, advertisement, poster, invoice, receipt, act, bank note, check; (v) advertise. ANTONYM: (n) credit bills: (n) currency, folding money bind: (adj, v) attach, fix, fasten, affix; (n) band; (v) bandage, lace, fetter, bundle, truss, combine. ANTONYMS: (v) untie, unbind, free, unfasten, unravel, permit, loosen, loose, let; (n, v) release; (n) pleasure bishop: (n) pontiff, primate, chessman, prelate, minister, metropolitan, Martin, lord; (v) wassail, flip, punch black: (adj) sable, dark, ebony, colored, bleak, dirty, evil, nigger, darkie, unclean; (adj, n) blackamoor. ANTONYMS: (v) whiten; (adj) spotless, snowy, saintly, pale, optimistic, merry, light, angelic, ivory, bright blasphemy: (n) profanity, desecration, violation, profanation, oath, irreverence, curse, profaneness, discourtesy, cursing, insult. ANTONYMS: (n) adoration, respect, reverence bleat: (v) blat, kvetch, gripe, moan, whimper, cry, blate, quetch, utter, emit; (n) baaing bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, condemn, disapprove, damn, disallow, deny blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed, sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted, fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, condemned, damned, disapproved, unhappy, unholy, secular blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate, beatified, blissful, blame, blasted, blamed, golden, glorious, favored blind: (n) curtain, shutter, veil, drape, awning, trick; (v) bedazzle, dazzle, daze; (adj) sightless; (adj, v) obscure. ANTONYMS: (adj) sighted, uncovered, understanding, sharp, seeing, revealed, quick, perceptive, open, controlled, cautious
Dr. Faustus blood: (n) birth, gore, nature, origin, kindred, lineage, descent, family, beau, pedigree; (adj) juice blow: (n) beat, knock, shock, wallop, gust, jolt; (adj, n, v) gasp, puff; (n, v) blast, slap; (v) squander. ANTONYMS: (n, v) calm; (v) save, conserve, store, stillness, inhale, come, arrive; (n) luck, comfort, caress blown: (adj) puffy, panting, swollen, winded, inflated, moving, high, haughty lofty, late; (v) puffing and blowing; (n) blowen bodies: (n) people, public body: (n) cadaver, corpse, organization, cluster, set, carcass, figure, consistency, aggregate, association; (adj, n) mass. ANTONYMS: (n) handful, mind, minority, soul, few bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious, manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless, spirited, heroic, daring, courageous, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) timid, modest, afraid, meek, shy, light, courteous, discreet, faint, fearful, abashed boldly: (adj, adv) courageously, valiantly, heroically; (adv) fearlessly, daringly, bravely, intrepidly, impudently, audaciously, shamelessly, brashly. ANTONYMS: (adv) discreetly, modestly, nervously, hesitantly, shyly, fearfully, meekly, submissively, secretly, respectfully, diffidently book: (v) order, reserve, inscribe, apply, write; (n) account book, pamphlet, journal, volume; (n, v) list, record. ANTONYMS: (v) free, exonerate books: (n) notebook, account, ledger, literature, accountancy boots: (n) Bootes, bell boy, bootblack, counterjumper, boy, shoeblack, footwear born: (adj) native, natural, congenital, inbred, inborn, innate, inherent, untutored; (v) be born, to be born, arise. ANTONYMS: (adj) learned, unborn, acquired, trained bottle: (n) container, jug, flask, cruet, vial, pot, phial, jar, decanter, carboy; (n, v) can bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border, bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n) boundary, barrier, compass. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, amble, crawl, limp, permit; (adj) permitted, released, unbound, allowed, unlikely
bounteous: (adj) bountiful, liberal, ample, copious, plentiful, bighearted, generous, munificent, handsome, benevolent, affluent. ANTONYM: (adj) scarce bowels: (n) gut, compassion, pity, inside, bowel, viscera, innards, belly, guts, insides, intestines brains: (n) cleverness, intellect, intelligence, sense, mind, wisdom, pate, wit, wits, reason; (adj, n) head. ANTONYM: (n) stupidity branch: (n, v) fork; (n) wing, jump, affiliate, ramus, member, stem, limb, agency, stick, subdivision. ANTONYMS: (n) composite, trunk; (v) converge, merge brave: (adj, n) bold, hardy; (adj) audacious, fearless, courageous, virile, intrepid, valiant; (adj, v) endure; (v) defy, face. ANTONYMS: (adj) cowardly, frightened, pathetic, gutless, afraid, cautious, fainthearted, meek, mousy, nervous; (v) skip bravely: (adv) courageously, fearlessly, valiantly, boldly, intrepidly, dauntlessly, gallantly, audaciously, undauntedly, heroically, doughtily. ANTONYMS: (adv) timidly, fearfully, execrably, nervously break: (n, v) crack, fracture, breach, burst, rupture, stop, pause; (n) interruption, respite, suspension; (v) infringe. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, honor, lose, make, observe, resume, stay, strengthen; (n, v) mend; (n) continuation, misfortune breasts: (n) chest, booby breathe: (n, v) respire, subsist, imply; (n) breath, bespeak; (adj, n, v) live; (v) exhale, exist, emit, rest, be. ANTONYMS: (v) suffocate, hide, choke, asphyxiate, drain, die, inhale brethren: (n) congregation, assembly, brother, people, laity, family, flock, fold bridge: (n, v) span, stretch; (n) pontoon, tie, nosepiece, footbridge, crossing; (v) bridge over, connect, link, traverse. ANTONYMS: (n) split, separation, chasm, break, division; (v) unlink, detach, disjoin bright: (adj) alive, vivid, intelligent, apt, shining, brilliant, lustrous, luminous, light, beaming, shiny. ANTONYMS: (adj) cloudy, stupid, gloomy, dim, unintelligent, dreary, dark, overcast, shadowy, thick, leaden brimstone: (n) native sulphur, sulfur,
Christopher Marlowe native sulfur, atomic number bring: (v) convey, get, take, bear, carry, put, conduct, return, reduce, set, bring in. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, free, leave, lose, remove, avoid brow: (n) peak, brink, brows, height, summit, forehead, eyebrow, edge, crown, brim, border. ANTONYM: (n) trough brunt: (n) jolt, onset, push, shock, thrust, throw, impact, strain, blow, bang; (adj) stress brutish: (adj) brutal, barbarous, bestial, brute, savage, fierce, boorish, ferocious, cruel, indelicate; (adj, adv) beastly. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, humane, refined build: (n, v) make, shape; (v) erect, establish, raise, rise, found, base, fabricate, fashion; (n) frame. ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, dismantle, raze, overturn, obliterate, decrease, decelerate, ruin, disassemble buildings: (n) edifice, construction, lane, passage, place, property, quad, quadrangle, parade, rents, road built: (v) establish, create; (adj) made, shapely, robust, curvaceous, reinforced, improved, heavy, buxom, assembled burden: (n, v) bother, weight, pack, burthen, trouble, clog, strain; (n) anxiety, bale, responsibility; (v) afflict. ANTONYMS: (v) relieve, lighten, free, disburden, alleviate, relax; (n, v) help; (n) tranquility, relaxation, peace, pleasure burn: (adj, v) glow; (n, v) bite, fire, sunburn; (v) sting, scorch, incinerate, blaze, flare, ignite, cremate. ANTONYMS: (v) smother, give, subdue, help, quench, repay, stifle, extinguish, wet burned: (adj) baked, scorched, tempered, sore, hurt, heated, hardened, destroyed, bleak, parched, adust burning: (adj) blazing, ablaze, boiling, afire, flaming, hot; (n) combustion, firing; (adj, n) passionate, zealous, glowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, trivial, cool, out, painless, quenched, soothing, unimportant, apathetic, insignificant, unconcerned burnt: (adj) adust, heated, baked, torrid, sunburnt, seared, scorched, well done, tempered, overdone, combust. ANTONYMS: (adj) underdone, unburned, wet business: (n) subject, matter, event,
vocation, job, profession, affair, work, corporation, occupation; (adj, n) trade. ANTONYMS: (adj) charitable, private; (n) pleasure, avocation, fun, entertainment, hobby buttock: (n) posterior, seat, croup, tail, rump, bottom, breech, posteriors, dorsum, loin, backside caesar: (n) dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar, king calf: (n) calves, calfskin, sura, foal, shorthorn, pup, kitten, colt, leather, kid, box calf call: (n, v) appeal, shout, bellow, name, yell, howl, request, appoint; (v) bid, summon; (n) call option. ANTONYMS: (v) whisper, mutter, cancel, listen, stop, suppose, murmur; (n) dismissal, give, grant, silence called: (adj) named, titled, chosen, known as; (v) nempt, ycleped calling: (n) business, occupation, call, avocation, job, trade, career, employment, walk, pursuit; (n, v) profession. ANTONYMS: (n) entertainment, hobby calls: (n) securities, puts, bonds, preferred stock, common stock calm: (adj, n, v) assuage, appease, lull; (adj, v) cool, pacify, peaceful, easy, steady; (adj, adv, n, v) still; (n, v) allay; (v) mollify. ANTONYMS: (adj) agitated, wild, stormy, nervous, angry, scared, terrified, tense; (v) agitate, provoke; (adj, v) upset came: (v) arrive, come candle: (n) candela, light, taper, bougie, CD, candlepower, lamp, wax light, Standard candle; (v) examine, illuminate canonize: (v) glorify, declare, hold, bless, beatify, consecrate, canonise, hallow, worship, love, deify. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, desecrate, dishonor, disrespect canvass: (n, v) campaign, discuss; (n) review; (v) beg, examine, scrutinize, view, agitate, inspect, survey, study. ANTONYM: (v) neglect cardinal: (adj) capital, fundamental, central, main, key, chief, primal; (adj, n) paramount, essential, vital, radical. ANTONYMS: (adj) secondary, inessential, insignificant, minor, ordinal, unimportant carouse: (n, v) carousal, wassail; (adj, n, v) booze; (adj, v) bouse; (v) riot, drink, roister; (n) bender, revelry, racket; (adj) tipple. ANTONYM: (v)
75 lament carried: (adj) conveyed, imported carry: (v) convey, bring, take, conduct, acquit, behave, accept, transport, comport, hold, pack. ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, lose, censor, fail, hold, conceal carved: (adj) cut, incised, sculptured; (v) graven, engraved, stamped, fixed, imprinted. ANTONYM: (adj) uncarved case: (n) example, box, bin, cover, jacket, shell, bag, affair, briefcase, business; (adj, n) eccentric castle: (n) fortification, stronghold, castling, fort, palace, mansion, tower, house; (n, v) fortress, citadel, keep. ANTONYMS: (n) shack, cottage cause: (n) case, action, account; (n, v) occasion, allow; (v) breed, do, induce, beget, motivate, provoke. ANTONYMS: (n) effect, result, outcome; (v) foil, deter, forestall, prevent, stop, halt, quell, retard cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit, terminate, break, break off, close, conclude, discontinue, abstain. ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start, commence, persist, stay celestial: (adj) ethereal, divine, supernal, angelic, holy, sacred, astronomical, unworldly, superlunary, from on high; (n) heaven. ANTONYMS: (adj) mundane, secular, terrestrial, mortal centric: (adj) central, centre, medial ceremonial: (n) ceremony, observance, rite, service, liturgy, formality, etiquette, observation; (adj) formal, solemn, official. ANTONYMS: (adj) unstructured, relaxed, casual certain: (adj) definite, sure, assured, absolute, reliable, indisputable, dependable, unquestionable, undeniable, unavoidable, unequivocal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsure, doubtful, questionable, hesitant, debatable, erratic, faulty, indistinct, vague, doubting, undecided chafer: (n) cockchafer chafing: (n) abrasion, soreness, tenderness, rubbing, resistance, roughness; (v) irritate, to chafe; (adj) impatient chair: (n, v) chairman; (n) bench, president, chairperson, throne, couch, armchair, electric chair, chairwoman; (v) moderate, lead chamber: (n) hall, bedchamber,
76 cavity, cell, council, compartment, assembly, apartment, ventricle, dormitory, cubicle change: (n, v) shift, barter, twist, cash; (v) alter, alternate, adapt, convert; (n) alteration, modification, variation. ANTONYMS: (v) leave, maintain, idle, hold, establish, standardize; (n) stability, bills, constancy, preservation, uniformity characters: (n) letters, typescript, typeset, symbols, script, lettering, inscription, handwriting, font, cast, writing charge: (n, v) blame, care, burden, commission, command, attack, bill, load, tax; (n) accusation; (v) bid. ANTONYMS: (v) request, discharge, plead, beg, compensate, aid, credit, calm; (n, v) retreat, absolve, unload chariot: (n) car, wagon, carriage, waggon, vehicle, wain, equipage, char charm: (n, v) allure, captivate, appeal, spell, fascinate, bewitch, conjure; (adj, v) attract; (n) amulet; (v) enchant, entrance. ANTONYMS: (n) ugliness, repulsion, repulsiveness, awkwardness, hatefulness, unpleasantness; (v) repulse, offend, irritate, disgust, bore charms: (n) trinkets, jewelry, jewels chary: (adj) careful, cagey, cagy, guarded, frugal, wary, reluctant, safe, stingy, watchful, illiberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) careless, rash, imprudent, reckless, heedless, trusting, forgetful, unwary, eager chase: (v) pursue, trail, follow, track, stalk, expel, banish, go after; (n, v) hunt, search; (n) game. ANTONYMS: (v) escape, lead, find, precede chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, severe, continent, spotless, decent. ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, dirty, defiled, impure, tainted cheers: (n) cheerio, bye, acclamation, so long, goodbye, au revoir, clapping, encore chest: (n) bosom, ark, bust, box, chest of drawers, case, hutch, bureau, caisson, casket, dresser chief: (adj, n) principal, head, cardinal, capital, arch, essential, paramount; (n) administrator, boss, executive, leader. ANTONYMS: (adj) associate, secondary, junior, smallest, inessential, unimportant, least, trivial; (n) subordinate,
Dr. Faustus underling, inferior child: (n) baby, babe, bairn, infant, kid, toddler, tot, girl, brat, juvenile, minor. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, parent choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle, back up, clog up, gag, suffocate, foul, strangle, smother, obstruct. ANTONYMS: (v) free, open, release, unblock chorus: (n, v) choir; (v) chant; (n) ensemble, coir, refrain, chorale, acclamation, Greek chorus; (adv) descant, glee, madrigal. ANTONYMS: (n) disagreement, discord christ: (n) Jesus, Messiah, rescuer, word, Christly, deliverer, God the Son, redeemer, Good Shepherd, Jesus of Nazareth, logos christian: (adj) Catholic, scriptural, pietist, monotheistic, divine, evangelical, Christianly, moral, theist; (n) Christianity, devotee churl: (adj, n) niggard; (n) peasant, clown, curmudgeon, crosspatch, skinflint, countryman, tyke, tike, scrooge; (adj) miser. ANTONYMS: (n) aristocrat, gentleman circle: (n) association, field, range, beat, set; (n, v) ring, band, compass, turn, whirl; (v) encircle city: (adj) municipal, urban, civic, public; (n) borough, the City, burgh, village, metropolis, municipality, state. ANTONYMS: (adj) suburban, country, private claim: (n, v) call, charge, need, requisition; (n) allegation, privilege; (v) assert, exact, ask, want, arrogate. ANTONYMS: (v) disclaim, forfeit, waive, question, lose, grant, refute, request; (n) denial, disclaimer, response clean: (adj, adv) fair; (v) cleanse, brush, bathe, disinfect; (adj) antiseptic, blank, pure, chaste, unblemished; (n, v) wash. ANTONYMS: (adj) filthy, unclean, muddy, unhygienic, tainted, unwholesome, syrupy, full; (v) soil, contaminate, pollute clear: (adj) clean, certain, distinct; (adj, v) acquit, absolute, free, net, absolve, empty; (adj, n) open; (v) exculpate. ANTONYMS: (adj) opaque, cloudy, incomprehensible, uncertain, dark, hazy, vague, fuzzy, obscure, confused, puzzling clock: (n) chronometer, horologe, alarm, alarm clock, clepsydra, ticker, cuckoo clock, clock radio; (n, v)
time, stopwatch; (v) measure closet: (n) cupboard, cubicle, cell, latrine, bathroom, wardrobe, water closet; (adj) clandestine, confidential, secret, private. ANTONYM: (adj) open cloth: (n) drapery, fabric, clothes, clothing, rag, stuff, linen, tapestry, silk, flannel; (v) napkin cloven: (adj) bisulcate, cleaved, divided clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor, harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic, comic, acrobat; (v) antic coals: (n) ashes, fire, residue, embers coasting: (adj) drugged; (v) to slide coin: (v) invent, mint, originate, create, strike, cast; (n, v) forge; (n) specie, money, penny, piece colours: (n) banner, ensign, emblem, colour, colouring, standard, flag, color, tone combat: (n, v) fight, clash, encounter, conflict, war; (n) contest, action, brawl, fighting, fray, hostility. ANTONYMS: (n) peace; (v) cooperate, agree, pacify, surrender, compromise, favor comfort: (n, v) ease, allay, support, aid, alleviate; (n) consolation, relief, amenity, assistance; (adj, n, v) assuage; (v) cheer. ANTONYMS: (n) discomfort, aggravation, agony; (v) alarm, annoy, frighten, afflict, aggravate, bother, burden, disappoint command: (n, v) order, charge, call, control, decree; (n) instruction, bidding, direction, behest; (v) direct, commission. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, follow, contradict, countermand, revoke, recall, oppose; (n) beg, plead, plea commander: (n) chief, leader, commandant, head, governor, chieftain, commanding officer, conductor, major, skipper, master. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, follower, subordinate commands: (n) orders, instructions, information, guidelines commend: (v) approve, exalt, acclaim, praise, applaud, recommend, endorse, entrust, extol, compliment, cite. ANTONYMS: (v) rebuke, criticize, censure, reproach, keep, chastise, reprimand, deny, disparage, refuse, smear commiseration: (n) pity, compassion, sympathy, condolence, ruth, mercy, commiserate, bowels, consolation, fellow feeling, acknowledgement
Christopher Marlowe common: (adj) coarse, mutual, vulgar, mean, mediocre, ignoble, plebeian, base; (adj, n) cheap, habitual; (adj, n, v) usual. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncommon, rare, unusual, characteristic, specific, unique, extraordinary, exclusive, aristocratic, infrequent, refined company: (adj, n) society, business; (n) band, association, collection, cohort, brigade, troop, club, partnership; (v) accompany. ANTONYMS: (n) isolation, enmity, host, hostess, absence compare: (adj, v) liken; (v) confront, equate, to compare, associate, contrast, correlate, equalize, resemble, equal; (n, v) comparison. ANTONYMS: (v) imbalance, contrast compass: (n) scope, range, room, extent, area, circumference, reach; (n, v) round, grasp, circle; (v) get. ANTONYM: (v) lose complete: (adj, v) perfect, consummate; (adj, n) absolute, stark; (v) achieve, finish, accomplish, execute; (adj, n, v) close; (adj) whole, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfinished, partial, abridged, sketchy, shortened, lacking, qualified, narrow, missing; (v) neglect, start concave: (n) indentation, depression, concavity; (adj) cavernous, biconcave, cupped, dipped, arched, indented; (adj, n) crescent; (v) stove in. ANTONYM: (adj) curved concealed: (adj) covert, clandestine, blind, occult, secret, mysterious, obscure, buried, invisible, secreted, surreptitious. ANTONYMS: (adj) unconcealed, available, overt, open, divulged, Shown, revealed, disclosed, uncovered, noticeable, mainstream conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfesteem, pride, assumption, egotism, fancy, haughtiness, conception, caprice, quip. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, timidity, selflessness, humbleness, reserve concise: (adj) brief, compendious, terse, curt, short, succinct, laconic, pithy, summary, condensed; (v) close. ANTONYMS: (adj) wordy, lengthy, long, rambling, prolix, confused, redundant, expansive, convoluted conclude: (n, v) complete; (v) finish, gather, end, settle, resolve, terminate, determine, accomplish, cease, assume. ANTONYMS: (v)
start, begin, commence, open, unsettle, prolong, wait, hesitate, introduce, delay, postpone condition: (n) position, status, provision, standing, clause, circumstances, term, predicament, rank; (n, v) aspect; (v) provide. ANTONYMS: (v) disqualify; (n) option conditionally: (adv) provisorily, qualifiedly, contingently, dependently, supposing, guardedly, hypothetically, temporarily; (n) if, in case, provided conditions: (n) climate, environment, situation, circumstances, setting, surroundings, terms, provisions, ambiance, background, bound conduct: (v) bring, direct, carry, show; (n, v) act, administration, manage, administer, carriage, bearing; (adj, v) acquit. ANTONYMS: (v) mismanage, leave, follow conference: (n) meeting, colloquy, council, interview, consultation, negotiation, talk, discussion, congress, sitting, session confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor confirm: (v) corroborate, verify, approve, validate, bear out, prove, clinch, assert, demonstrate, authenticate; (adj, v) establish. ANTONYMS: (v) contradict, deny, weaken, cancel, void, veto, undermine, repudiate, question, open, negate conjure: (v) invoke, entreat, arouse, juggle, bewitch, beseech, bid, conjure up, evoke, implore, bring up conjuring: (n) magic, hocus-pocus, incantation, sorcery, witchcraft, sleight of hand, adjuration, figgum, conjury, evocation; (adj) magical conjuror: (n) magician, seer, illusionist, prestidigitator, conjure man, jockey, performer, wizard, witch, trickster, necromancer conquering: (adj) triumphant, winning, overcoming, glorious, proud, successful; (n) conquest, seizure, reverse, subjection, subjugation conquest: (n) defeat, triumph, conquering, achievement, reduction, coup, rout, overthrow, subjection, mastery, success. ANTONYMS: (n)
77 failure, defeat, loss, victory consequently: (adv) therefore, subsequently, as a result, then, sequentially, followingly, so, naturally, in consequence, hence; (conj) ergo constable: (n) police officer, policeman, alderman, burgomaster, Petty constable, portreeve, alguazil, gendarme, tipstaff, peon, patrolman constantinople: (n) Stambul, Stamboul consumed: (adj) exhausted, finished, used up, worn, depleted, obsessed, possessed, lost, tired, immersed, gone contemptible: (adj) abject, mean, base, pitiful, little, worthless, unworthy, miserable, ignoble, abominable, shameful. ANTONYMS: (adj) estimable, admired, deserving, worthy, honorable, respectable, respectful, noble, generous, commendable, good content: (n) meaning, matter, capacity, contents, subject; (n, v) contentment; (v) appease, please, satisfy, suffice; (adj) happy. ANTONYMS: (n, v) discontent; (adj) tormented, unhappy, dissatisfied, rebellious, discontented, troubled; (adj, v) upset; (n) unhappiness, sadness; (v) trouble contents: (n) substance, content, matter, inside, subject matter, list, volume, synopsis, conspectus, cargo, catalogue continent: (adj) chaste, celibate, abstemious, pure, temperate, abstinent, sober, austere; (n) land, peninsula, delta. ANTONYMS: (adj) impure, unchaste contrary: (adj, n) contradictory, reverse; (adj) adverse, conflicting, unfavorable, perverse, cross, disobedient, alien, different, obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj) similar, harmonious, helpful, obliging, compatible, complaisant, concordant, parallel, agreeable, cooperative, favorable contributory: (adj) conducive, auxiliary, contributive, ancillary, subservient, instrumental, subsidiary, additional, accessory, helpful, tributary corner: (n) bend, angle, nook, dilemma, recess, hole, coign, predicament, niche; (n, v) turn; (adj) angular. ANTONYMS: (v) free; (n) solution
78 corners: (adj) cornered corpus: (n) substance, stuff, collection, material, principal, capital, assemblage, aggregation, matter, Corpus uteri, quadrigemina cost: (n, v) price; (n) charge, amount, expense, toll, expenditure, payment, disbursement, worth, damage, fee counsel: (v) advise, consult, admonish, confer, warn; (n, v) caution, advocate; (n) barrister, advisement, consultation, admonition. ANTONYMS: (v) betray, trick, deceive, conceal, oppose; (n) warning countenance: (n) aspect, expression, brow, complexion; (n, v) face, sanction, support, favor; (v) allow, tolerate, uphold. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, oppose, discourage, disapprove, prohibit countries: (n) country country: (n) nation, home, land, place, area, territory, commonwealth, soil, kingdom, realm; (adj) rustic. ANTONYMS: (adj) urban, metropolitan; (adj, n) city; (n) metropolis course: (n, v) stream, flow; (n) bearing, route, career, track, path, road, channel; (adj, n) current; (v) chase. ANTONYM: (v) trickle courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable, attentive, gracious, decorous, chivalrous, bland, thoughtful, urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite, boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff, improper, vulgar, unhelpful, neglectful, graceless courtesy: (adj, n) civility, complaisance; (n) propriety, chivalry, comity, politeness, gallantry, decency, attention, breeding, etiquette. ANTONYMS: (n) rudeness, discourtesy, unkindness, informality, impoliteness, disservice, brusqueness, incivility, vulgarity, crudeness, neglect courts: (n) judges covered: (adj) veiled, concealed, covert, coated, secret, wrapped, thick, obscured, masked, shrouded; (adj, prep) cloaked. ANTONYMS: (adj) bare, uncovered, open, plain, exposed, outdoor, empty covetousness: (n) cupidity, greed, rapacity, desire, stinginess, greediness, acquisitiveness, avariciousness, avaritia, envy, enviousness. ANTONYM: (n)
Dr. Faustus generosity crave: (v) covet, ask, want, beseech, implore, wish, long, entreat, desire, fancy, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, spurn, loathe, hate, detest, grant creation: (n) world, production, invention, composition, conception, fabrication, foundation, formation, founding, piece, creature. ANTONYMS: (n) end, annihilation creature: (n) being, brute, animal, tool, individual, person, body, entity, human, puppet, somebody creep: (v) grovel, sneak, steal, fawn, lurk, truckle, cringe; (n) creeping, crawling, toady, sycophant. ANTONYMS: (v) race, dash, hasten, hurry, speed, fly crooked: (adj) bent, corrupt, dishonest, curved, unfair, deformed; (adj, n, v) awry; (adj, v) irregular, askew, wry, indirect. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, honest, principled, even, aboveboard, lawful, level, moral, flat, aligned, honorable crossed: (adj) crossbred, mixed, hybrid, interbred, decussated, intercrossed; (v) matted, disconcerted dashed, unhinged, frustrated crossing: (n) transit, ford, intersection, hybridization, crossbreeding, passage, voyage, mating, crossway, crosswalk, cruise crown: (n, v) top, cover; (v) cap, complete; (n) apex, pinnacle, crest, summit, peak, kingdom, acme. ANTONYMS: (n) base, bottom; (v) dishonor, dethrone, begin, commence, start, depose crying: (adj, v) exigent, instant, pressing, urgent; (adj) insistent, clamant, imperative, blatant; (n) weeping; (v) weep; (adj, n) sniveling cull: (v) pick, collect, pluck, select, extract, glean, reap, gather, compile, amass, sort cunning: (adj) crafty, canny, adroit, wily, sly, shrewd, tricky, artful; (n) craftiness, craft, cleverness. ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, honest, stupid, unimaginative, gullible, ingenuous, straightforward, candid, sincere; (n) frankness, straightforwardness cure: (n, v) correct, medicine, help; (n) antidote, salve, therapy, treatment; (v) treat, pickle, preserve, restore. ANTONYMS: (n) poison; (v) injure, hurt, harm, wound, damage, exacerbate
curse: (n, v) blight, plague; (n) anathema, blasphemy, malediction, denunciation; (adj, v) beshrew; (v) swear, ban, damn, vituperate. ANTONYMS: (n) blessing, benediction, making; (v) communicate cursed: (adj) damned, doomed, execrable, cussed, wretched, unlucky, accursed, blamed, blasted, confounded; (v) accurst. ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, honorable, nice, sweet, kine custom: (n) habit, convention, usage, practice, consuetude, fashion, method, mores; (n, v) use, accustom; (adj) bespoke. ANTONYMS: (n) fad, innovation, phenomenon, rage, rarity dagger: (n) bodkin, sword, blade, obelisk, knife, stiletto, dirk, cutlass, grapheme, saber, skean dainties: (n) delicacies, food, cates dainty: (adj, v) nice; (adj, n, v) delicacy; (adj) fastidious, savory, tasteful, squeamish, particular, mincing, refined; (adj, n) tidbit; (n) luxury. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, vulgar, rough, inelegant, harsh, gross, awkward, accepting, heavy, careless, thick dalliance: (n) delay, play, flirt, flirting, billing and cooing, coquetry, petting, holdup, hanky-panky, necking, love affair dame: (n) lady, female, queen, girl, gentlewoman, wench, skirt, matron, madam, ma'am, woman damnation: (n) damn, condemnation, anathema, state, curse, execration, judgment, oath, imprecation, denunciation, denouncement damned: (adj) accursed, doomed, blasted, condemned, damn, cussed, wretched, infernal, hateful, goddamned; (adv) damnably. ANTONYM: (adj) saved dance: (v) caper, bop, to dance, cavort, play, skip, to show courage, step; (n, v) hop, jump, shake danger: (n) risk, peril, hazard, chance, jeopardy, threat, trouble, precariousness, slipperiness, disaster, insecurity. ANTONYMS: (n) security, ease, privilege date: (n) appointment, engagement, period, meeting, epoch, assignation, dating, day of the month; (n, v) escort; (v) register, determine days: (n) period, life, time, age, existence, generation, years, being, era, living, lifetime
Christopher Marlowe dead: (adj) lifeless, defunct, cold, inanimate, idle, gone, fallen, numb, deceased, vapid; (adv) right. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) living; (adj) alive, animate, live, spirited, responsive, working, partial, operative; (adv) partly, partially deadly: (adj, adv) deathly; (adj) baneful, lethal, fatal, destructive, mortal, pernicious, virulent, toxic; (adv) lifelessly, lethally. ANTONYMS: (adj) interesting, uplifting, readable, mild, healthy, healthful, benign, innocuous, exciting dear: (adj, adv) close, near; (adj, n) darling; (adj) costly, expensive, lovely, precious, affectionate, adorable, cherished; (n) love. ANTONYMS: (adj) worthless, inexpensive, valueless, despised, modest, loathed, hateful, distant; (n) rival, foe, enemy dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; (adj) precious, intimate, sweet dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously, darlingly, sweetly, petly, expensively, belovedly, intimately, highly, heartfeltly, lovely death: (n) expiration, end, close, exit, fate, mortality, departure, cessation, decease, dissolution; (adj) quietus. ANTONYMS: (n) existence, delivery, living, nascency, being, survival, life, beginning deceased: (adj, n) departed; (n) dead person, cadaver, decedent; (adj) defunct, asleep, passed away, passed on, extinct, lifeless, late. ANTONYMS: (adj) living, awake, animated deceive: (v) cheat, circumvent, bamboozle, pretend, hoax, fool, cozen, trick, beguile; (n, v) dupe; (n) fraud. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, inform, undeceive, protect deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided dedicate: (v) apply, devote, commit, bless, render, sanctify, pay, inaugurate, give, destine; (prep, v) set apart. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, alienate, desecrate, dishonor, disrespect, steal, take, withhold, misuse, keep deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, doing, document, title, fact. ANTONYM: (n) failure deep: (adj) thick, profound, strong, rich, broad, sound, absorbed, wide, abstruse, dark; (adj, v) intense.
ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial, high, weak, soft, light, open, frivolous, lightweight, narrow, straightforward, simple deepness: (n) profundity, profoundness, thickness, consistency, viscosity, astuteness, abstruseness, gravity, lowness, intensity, huskiness. ANTONYMS: (n) shallowness, height, flippancy delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement, rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish, amuse, please, captivate, transport, enrapture. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, dismay, dissatisfaction, sadness, nuisance, discontent; (v) depress, displease, sadden, irk; (n, v) bore deliver: (v) consign, bear, carry, save, rescue, abandon, send, pronounce, hand over, bring; (adj, v) utter. ANTONYMS: (v) capture, confine, imprison, hold, oppress, enslave, restrain, retain, collect, withhold, shackle delphian: (adj) delphic, Delphinian, enigmatic, cryptic, dark, oracular, prophetic deny: (v) controvert, rebuff, contradict, disavow, gainsay, reject, oppose, refuse, disown, abnegate, renounce. ANTONYMS: (v) affirm, claim, acknowledge, declare, maintain, agree, spoil, accept, accede, allow, argue depart: (v) go, deviate, decease, diverge, start, stray, wander, leave, die, vary, part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, arrive, enter, come, abide, conform, continue, remain, appear, converge, return deprived: (adj) bereft, poor, destitute, depressed, needy, broke, bankrupt, denuded, humble, indigent, insolvent. ANTONYMS: (adj) rich, exalted, salubrious depth: (n) abyss, profoundness, profundity, chasm, intensity, abstruseness, wisdom, extent, strength, width; (adj) profound. ANTONYMS: (n) height, superficiality, weakness, tallness, shallowness, narrowness, thinness, flippancy desire: (n) ambition, aspiration, craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire, seek. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) aversion, reality, revulsion, apathy; (v) spurn, abhor, answer, command, insist desires: (n) requirements, needs despair: (n) disappointment,
79 desolation, dejection, melancholy, gloom, desperation, depression, dismay, discouragement, pessimism, sorrow. ANTONYMS: (n) happiness, hopefulness, expectation, joy, cheer, cheerfulness, resilience, elation, joyfulness despatch: (n) shipment, expedition, communique, mission, consignment, sending, forwarding; (v) transmit, expedite, quicken, send desperate: (adj) despairing, dire, critical, abject, dangerous, in despair, grave, awful, despondent, drastic; (adj, v) forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) hopeful, optimistic, rational, promising, minor, cautious, casual, careful, trivial, secure, satisfied determined: (adj) constant, definite, decided, stubborn, certain, inflexible, decisive, determinate, ambitious, set; (adj, v) resolved. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncertain, irresolute, unmotivated, feeble, indecisive, waffling, undetermined, undecided, wavering, vacillating, fickle devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. ANTONYM: (n) angel devilish: (adj, v) diabolic, satanic, infernal, mephistophelian, demoniacal; (adj) demonic, wicked, diabolical, terrific; (v) Stygian; (adv) devilishly. ANTONYMS: (adj) cherubic, godlike, good, saintly, virtuous devils: (n) unclean spirits devotion: (n) allegiance, attachment, dedication, loyalty, worship, affection, enthusiasm, fondness, devotedness; (adj, n) veneration, passion. ANTONYMS: (n) disloyalty, negligence, apathy, disobedience, neglect, hatred, separation, dishonesty, infidelity devoutly: (adv) sincerely, godly, religiously, reverently, earnestly, solemnly, heartily, holy, purely, heartfeltly, at heart diana: (n) princess Diana, Lucretia, princess of Wales, satellite, orb of night, moon, lady Diana Frances spencer; (adj) Dian differ: (v) disagree, contradict, clash, diverge, deviate, depart, difference, discrepancy, conflict, vary, contrast. ANTONYMS: (v) correspond, concur, conform, match, resemble, harmonize, equal, consent, accord,
80 accede, support dine: (v) feed, lunch, breakfast, dining, meal, give, have supper, take tea, grub, consume, entertain. ANTONYM: (v) abstain dinner: (n) banquet, lunch, dinner party, meal, party, beanfeast, spread; (v) tiffin, dejeuner, bever; (adj) dinnerly dirge: (n) coronach, threnode, threnody, requiem, lamentation, epicedium, elegy, song, monody; (adj) deep death song, nenia discovered: (adj) revealed, disclosed, exposed, naked, detected, determined, observed, open, unconcealed, bare. ANTONYM: (adj) concealed disdain: (n, v) despise, contemn, slight, ridicule; (n) contempt, derision, arrogance, haughtiness, pride; (v) scoff, disparage. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, admiration, reverence, worship, approval, regard; (v) approve, admire, praise, accept, participate dish: (n) basin, disk, plate, meal, platter, food, saucer, beauty, meat, repast; (n, v) hollow dismembered: (adj) broken disobedience: (n) contumacy, intractableness, rebelliousness, breach, recalcitrance, rebellion, refusal, noncompliance, mutiny, contravention, defiance. ANTONYMS: (n) compliance, meekness, conformity, devotion, order, fulfillment, loyalty dispute: (adj, n, v) quarrel, debate, question; (n) conflict, difference; (n, v) argue, wrangle, row, fight, squabble; (v) discuss. ANTONYMS: (n) agreement, understanding, accord, concord; (v) surrender, concede, concur, confess, support, accept disputing: (adj) opposed; (v) disputant dissolve: (v) break up, disperse, dissipate, evaporate, fuse, melt, disband, fade, vanish, resolve, dispel. ANTONYMS: (v) solidify, appear, harden, thicken, coagulate, congeal, continue, integrate, materialize, open, start dissuade: (v) discourage, deter, advise, remonstrate, divert, expostulate, dehort, hinder, repress, reason, detain. ANTONYMS: (v) persuade, encourage, induce, influence distressed: (adj) worried, distraught,
Dr. Faustus anxious, sad, disturbed, downcast, hurt, distracted, wretched, shocked, troubled. ANTONYMS: (adj) composed, content, euphoric, happy, comforted, glad, joyful, collected, unconcerned, unaffected distrust: (n, v) mistrust, discredit; (n) suspicion, misgiving, disbelief, uncertainty, hesitation; (v) suspect, disbelieve, question; (adj) distrustful. ANTONYMS: (n) confidence, faith, trustingness, certainty, belief, optimism; (v) believe, entrust, depend, confide ditch: (n) canal, channel, dike; (v) desert, dump, chuck, abandon, discard, cut, leave; (n, v) moat. ANTONYMS: (v) accept, take, adopt, maintain; (n) ridge divided: (adj) cleft, detached, distributed, forked, shared, separated, separate, disjointed, branched, pronged, disunited divine: (adj) sacred, wonderful, blessed, holy, exquisite; (n) clergyman; (v) guess, conjecture, augur, anticipate; (adj, n) almighty. ANTONYMS: (adj) imperfect, profane, earthly, dreadful, physical, ugly, secular divinity: (n) God, theology, divineness, immortal, godship, godhead, spirit, demiurge, apologetics, demigod; (adj, n) the Deity. ANTONYM: (n) devil doctor: (v) cure, mend, repair, remedy, attend, adulterate, fix, heal; (n) doc, Dr; (adj) doctorly. ANTONYMS: (v) purify, clean, distill, harm, hurt, injure, wound doctrine: (n) creed, philosophy, belief, dogma, credo, conviction, lesson, canon, faith, gospel, school dollars: (n) bread dominion: (n) authority, control, domain, command, reign, rule, sway, power, kingdom, mastery, supremacy. ANTONYM: (n) subjugation dominus: (n) dominie, dominee, reverend, a clergyman, clergyman done: (adj, adv) finished, ended; (adj) complete, completed, over, made, gone, accomplished, concluded, through, cooked. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsettled, disapproved, incomplete, rare, raw, rejected, uncooked, undone, unfulfilled, unsanctioned double: (adj, n) twin; (adj) dual, duple, twofold; (v) fold, bend, geminate; (adj, v) reduplicate; (n) substitute, mate, image.
ANTONYMS: (adj, n) single; (v) decrease, divide, halve; (adj) multivalent, univalent, lone doubt: (n, v) suspicion, question, query, dispute; (n) disbelief, misgiving, incertitude, apprehension, uncertainty; (adj, n) skepticism; (v) suspect. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, confidence, conclusiveness, belief, certitude, faith, approval; (v) accept, believe, consider, swallow drag: (v) attract, draw, lug, cart, heave, tow; (n, v) pull, puff; (adv, v) trail; (n) bother; (adj) dragging. ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure; (v) hasten, hurry, shove, speed, rush, propel, fly draw: (n, v) drag, pull, delineate, tie, design, puff; (v) depict, describe, derive, bring; (n) attraction. ANTONYMS: (v) repel, deposit, shove, shorten, thrust, cut, curtail, contract, alienate; (n) repulsion, win drawer: (n) draftsman, drawers, till, designer, box car, cartoonist, commode, engraver, chest, case, locker drift: (adj, n) stream; (n) current, course, tendency, tone, intent; (adj, n, v) flow; (n, v) aim, blow; (v) ramble, float. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, struggle, set, sink, aim, repel drink: (n, v) beverage, draught, swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion, intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib, swig. ANTONYMS: (v) regurgitate, sip, abstain drive: (n, v) ride, push, force, crusade, urge, thrust, campaign, cause; (v) compel, chase, actuate. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, inertia, lethargy, walk, indifference; (v) discourage, repress, stop, prevent, inhibit, dissuade drizzling: (adj) drizzle, sprinkle, pouring, disgusting, drizzly, nasty, disagreeable, rainy, showery, raining, descending drop: (n, v) decline, dribble, deposit, decrease, jump, ebb; (adj, n, v) collapse; (v) droop, sink, cast, drip. ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase; (v) lift, pour, sharpen, raise, recuperate; (n) growth, mass, lot, upswing, elevation dross: (n) trash, rubbish, scoria, refuse, slag, waste, impurity, dregs, garbage, offal, cinder drowning: (n) masking, demersion drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto, drunken, inebriated; (adj, n)
Christopher Marlowe inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac, drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, clearheaded; (n) teetotaler duchess: (n) princess, queen, lady, czarina, begum, margravine, noblewoman, peeress, marchioness, sultana, infanta duke: (n) lord, prince, hand, nobleman, fist, chief; (v) pass, box, deliver during: (prep) within, on, by, of, for, pending, inside; (adv) whilst, while; (adj) throughout; (n) at. ANTONYM: (prep) out dust: (v) sprinkle, clean, spray, wipe, spread; (n) dirt, earth, relics, grit, remains, soil. ANTONYMS: (n) newness; (v) dirty dutch: (n) Hollander, Dutchman, the Netherlands, Dutchmen; (adj) Hollandish duty: (n) function, commitment, obligation, chore, assignment, office, dues, job, responsibility, must; (n, v) charge. ANTONYMS: (n) disobedience, option dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) wander each: (adv) apiece, either, individually; (adj) every, various, singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone, an, anybody, everyone earnestly: (adj, adv) seriously; (adv) eagerly, intently, zealously, solemnly, ardently, fervently, heartily, gravely, warmly, passionately. ANTONYMS: (adv) indifferently, insincerely, unconcernedly, jokingly ears: (n) antenna earth: (n) world, dust, ground, land, lair, dry land, terra firma, clay, creation, ball, country ease: (v) alleviate, assuage, relieve, allay; (n) convenience, rest, leisure, relief, satisfaction; (adj, v) facilitate; (n, v) relax. ANTONYMS: (n) discomfort, formality, awkwardness, worry, toil, problem, pain, maladroitness; (v) aggravate, worsen, impede easily: (adv) lightly, smoothly, facilely, fluently, readily, plainly, comfortably, uncomplicatedly, calmly, slowly, conveniently. ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly, unquestionably, laboriously, difficultly, barely, arduously, affectedly, inconveniently, seriously,
formally east: (n) orient, e, Levant, easting, east side, EST, cardinal compass point; (adj) eastern; (adv) eastwards. ANTONYM: (adj) west economy: (adj) economic, economical; (n) saving, thrift, parsimony, conservation, curtailment, business, economics, providence, thriftiness. ANTONYMS: (n) extravagance, generosity, spending, squandering, wastefulness, lavishness; (adj) luxury e'er: (adv) ever, forever effect: (n, prep) consequence; (v) accomplish, achieve, bring about, create, complete, cause, do; (n) product, sequel; (n, v) result. ANTONYMS: (n) reason, cause; (v) impede, fail effects: (n) goods, property, stuff, chattels, gear, effect, possessions, personal effects, commodity, baggage, special effects eight: (n) eighter, eleven, nine, ten, team, queen, ogdoad, octonary, octet, ace, octad elements: (n) rudiments, grammar, outlines, fundamentals, basics, weather, ABC, atmospheric condition, contents, principia eleven: (adj, n) xi; (n) eight, squad, football team, team else: (adv) besides, yet, to boot, in addition, moreover; (pron) another; (n) or; (adj) different, other, further, additional emperor: (n) sovereign, ruler, monarch, imperator, mikado, king, Saturnia pavonia, crowned head, emperors, protector, saturniid empire: (adj, n) rule, authority, control; (n) kingdom, domain, realm, reign, nation, sway, command, territory empyreal: (adj) empyrean, celestial, heavenly, sublime, ethereal, supernal, glorious, ultimate, ineffable english: (n) English language, Englishwoman, Britain, Englishman, side, the English, English people; (adj) Anglican; (v) Anglify enough: (adj) ample, adequate, competent, decent; (n) adequacy, sufficiency, fill; (adv) rather, amply, adequately; (adv, n) plenty. ANTONYMS: (adj) insufficient, deficient, wanting, scant; (adv) insufficiently, inadequately; (n) insufficiency, deficiency,
81 inadequacy, shortage enter: (v) enroll, embark, chronicle, book, record, input, arrive, come, pierce, register, penetrate. ANTONYMS: (v) depart, exit, delete, stop, refrain, erase, egress, abstain, cancel, exclude, disembark enterprise: (n) business, company, concern, endeavor, activity, adventure, energy, effort, courage, venture, endeavour. ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, apathy, laziness, passiveness, sloth, idleness entice: (n, v) lure, attract, seduce, tempt; (v) cajole, bait, draw, charm, coax, allure, captivate. ANTONYMS: (v) dissuade, repulse, discourage, force entrails: (n) bowels, gut, bowel, viscera, innards, internal organs, insides, intestines, guts, tripe, inside entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject entreaty: (n) plea, prayer, request, petition, adjuration, supplication, suit, demand, desire, invocation; (v) solicitation envious: (adj) covetous, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, begrudge, greedy, resentful, grudging, green, begrudging, enviable. ANTONYMS: (adj) fulfilled, satisfied, undesirous, contented envy: (v) begrudge, want; (n) enviousness, desire, heartburning, resentment, envies, heartburn, jealousy, hatred; (adj) jealous. ANTONYM: (n) generosity erring: (adj) devious, sinful, fallible, wrong, amiss, at fault, guilty, perverse, reprehensible; (n) transgression error: (n) blunder, fault, mistake, delusion, lapse, oversight, miss, guilt, crime, defect; (adj, n) wrong. ANTONYMS: (n) correctness, fact, accuracy erst: (adv) once, formerly, ago, time was, over, whilom, heretofore, previously, before, erewhile, at one time estate: (n) land, order, demesne, rank, domain, property, acres, substance, state, asset, assets eternal: (adj) constant, perpetual, ceaseless, everlasting, lasting, continual, aeonian, immortal, boundless, deathless, enduring. ANTONYMS: (adj) mortal, finite, brief, ephemeral, fleeting,
82 terminable, ending, fragile, inconstant eternally: (adv) always, permanently, incessantly, perpetually, constantly, ceaselessly, endlessly, unendingly, unceasingly, lastingly; (adj, adv) forever. ANTONYMS: (adv) briefly, sporadically europe: (n) Io, Europa, EC, Eleusine indica, goose grass, silverweed, wild strawberry, wild hop, starry saxifrage, star saxifrage, east Asia evening: (n) even, dusk, dark, eve, twilight, sunset, eventide, nightfall, sundown, night, period. ANTONYMS: (n) daybreak, sunrise, sunup, morning ever: (adj, adv) always, continually; (adj) constantly, still, forever; (adv) never, e'er, before, once, perpetually; (n) Evers. ANTONYM: (adv) erratically everlasting: (adj) eternal, ceaseless, endless, constant, continual, perpetual, immortal, deathless, ageless, aeonian; (adj, n) lasting. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, ephemeral, fleeting, mortal, ending, terminating, inconstant, fragile, perishable evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, ever; (adv) everlastingly, forevermore, perpetually, ever and again, for all time, until the end of time. ANTONYMS: (adv) temporarily, suddenly every: (adj) each, total, whole, any, thorough; (n) everybody, everyone, everything; (adv) apiece, either; (pron) every one evil: (adj) bad, criminal, corrupt, wicked, destructive, depraved; (adj, n) ill, detriment; (n) adversity, disaster, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) goodness, righteousness, morality; (adj) kindhearted, righteous, benign, moral, pure, upright, virtuous, sinless examine: (v) assay, audit, overhaul, try, consider, control, check, search, survey, ask, ascertain. ANTONYMS: (v) reply, skim, glance excellent: (adj, n) estimable, worthy, capital; (adj) superior, admirable, beautiful, distinctive, superb, great, good, splendid. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, abysmal, awful, mediocre, terrible, imperfect, inadequate, middling, shoddy, bad, used except: (adj, conj, prep) save; (v) exclude, demur, omit, elide; (adv, conj, prep) but; (adv, prep) besides;
Dr. Faustus (prep) excepting, excluding, aside from; (conj, n) without. ANTONYMS: (prep) including; (v) receive, admit execrable: (adj, adv) abominable, nefarious; (adj, v) cursed, hateful, odious; (adj) deplorable, damnable, abhorrent, atrocious, accursed, dreadful. ANTONYMS: (adj) savory, laudable, outstanding, dandy, swell, great, fabulous, superb, praiseworthy execute: (v) do, achieve, complete, perform, accomplish, act, effect, carry out, enforce, make, fulfill. ANTONYMS: (v) abandon, ignore, disregard, Miss, forget, shirk, revive execution: (n) accomplishment, achievement, enforcement, implementation, effect, action, carrying out, executing, discharge, death penalty, capital punishment. ANTONYM: (n) omission exhort: (v) admonish, urge, advise, advocate, caution, expostulate, press, counsel, entreat, bid, goad. ANTONYMS: (v) prohibit, block, discourage, dissuade, restrain, demand exit: (n) departure, door, egress, outlet, going, gate, way out; (v) leave, go, go out, die. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, entry, entrance, greeting; (v) arrive, come experience: (v) endure, suffer, examine, meet, live, know, receive; (adj, v) see; (n) event, episode, happening. ANTONYMS: (n) inexperience, greenness, naivete, inability, ignorance expired: (adj) lapsed, deceased, invalid, dead, overdue, extinct, elapsed, out external: (adj, n, prep) exterior; (adj) outside, extrinsic, extraneous, outward, outlying, foreign, peripheral, superficial, formal, objective. ANTONYMS: (adj) inner, internal, domestic, inmost, inside, indoor, outgoing, inward, intrinsic, deep, relevant extinguish: (v) destroy, exterminate, eradicate, douse, annihilate, consume, wipe out, end, suppress, quash; (adj, v) allay. ANTONYMS: (v) ignite, build, create, encourage, inflame, sustain, protect eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby blues, guard, propensity, eyen fable: (n) legend, fiction, tale, story, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, myth, anecdote; (adj, n) apologue, parable.
ANTONYMS: (n) fact, history face: (adj, n, v) front; (v) confront, audacity; (n, v) look, aspect, top; (n) side, expression, countenance, exterior, facade. ANTONYMS: (n, v) back; (n) timidity, nobody, underside, shyness, rear; (v) evade, elude, hide, withdraw, submit fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready, favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly; (v) optative fainting: (n) swoon, syncope, deliquium, lipothymy, prostration, stupor; (adj) lipothymic fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet, reasonable, dispassionate, average, fine, impartial; (adj, v) bright; (adj, adv) clean; (n) blonde. ANTONYMS: (adj) biased, unjust, exceptional, dark, partial, mismatched, unwarranted, foul, imbalanced, prejudiced, poor faith: (n) confidence, belief, conviction, trust, credence, credit, creed, assurance, cult, expectation, dependence. ANTONYMS: (n) disbelief, distrust, dubiosity, skepticism, despair, uncertainty, doubt, independence fall: (n, v) decline, dip, rain, decrease, plunge, dive; (n) downfall, descent, autumn; (v) descend, sink. ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase, win, climb, triumph; (n) ascent, improvement, rising; (v) ascend, advance, conquer, elevate fallen: (adj) drop, decline, prostrate, flat, destroyed, down, lapsed, alight, degenerate, lose, get. ANTONYMS: (adj) esteemed, honorable, honored, lauded, prestigious falling: (n) descent, fall, downfall, degradation, depreciation; (adj) descending, decreasing, declining, tumbling, ebb, down. ANTONYMS: (adj) standing, increasing, burgeoning fame: (n, v) credit, celebrity, report, reputation, renown, cry; (n) distinction, bruit, honor, prestige, buzz. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, obscurity, anonymity, ignominy, dishonor, commonness, oblivion, criticism familiar: (adj) conversant, everyday, usual, ordinary, commonplace; (adj, n) customary, common, intimate, habitual, accustomed; (n) companion. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, strange, foreign, unaccustomed, new, unknown,
Christopher Marlowe ignorant, formal, shy, rare, distant famine: (n) scarcity, shortage, privation, deficiency, deficit, starvation, drought, hunger, poverty, penury, failure. ANTONYMS: (n) abundance, plenty, glut, feast, bounty, excess famous: (adj) celebrated, splendid, distinguished, renowned, illustrious, famed, capital, prominent, well-known, fine, stunning. ANTONYMS: (adj) infamous, ordinary, anonymous, insignificant, obscure, inglorious, undistinguished fancies: (n) stock farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, salutation, welcome farther: (adj, adv, prep) beyond; (adj) additional, more, distant; (adv) furthermore, besides, abroad, in addition, too; (adj, prep) outside; (pron) another. ANTONYMS: (prep) within; (adv) nearer, closer fast: (adj, v) firm; (adj) dissolute, instant, agile, staunch, quick, hurried, fixed, rapid; (adv) soon, hard. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, loosely, sluggishly; (n) binge; (adj) sluggish, loose, unattached, plodding; (adj, adv) leisurely; (v) gorge, eat fatal: (adj) deadly, pestilent, lethal, disastrous, destructive, dangerous, deathly, fateful, murderous, critical; (adj, v) mortal. ANTONYMS: (adj) harmless, nourishing, healthful, benign, uncritical, mild father: (n) dad, begetter, creator, abba, patriarch, beginner, founder, padre; (n, v) sire; (v) engender, generate. ANTONYMS: (n) disciple, follower favour: (n) relief, goodness, assistance, office, favoritism, benignity; (v) choose, prefer, privilege, facilitate, approve fear: (n) awe, dismay, alarm, fright, consternation, care, anguish; (n, v) apprehension, doubt, concern, reverence. ANTONYMS: (n) fearlessness, reassurance, confidence, courage, valor, calm, boldness, security, equanimity, peace; (v) brave fearful: (adj, n) afraid; (adj, v) dreadful, cowardly; (adj) terrible, apprehensive, awful, timid, anxious, craven, frightful, eerie.
ANTONYMS: (adj) rational, calm, confident, bold, unimpressed, charming, fearless, courageous, reassuring, unafraid, wonderful feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) feed, eat. ANTONYMS: (v) abstain, starve; (n) snack feathers: (n) plumage, fur, indument, garment, garb, fine hair, clothing, dress, apparel, attire, array feed: (v) eat, dine, browse, encourage, board, diet, nourish, fatten; (n, v) nurture, provender; (n) aliment. ANTONYMS: (v) thwart, crave, desire, sap feeds: (n) feeding feel: (v) experience, finger, handle, consider, find; (n, v) sense, sound; (n) feeling, texture, atmosphere, air. ANTONYMS: (v) observe, doubt, question, mistrust, ignore, disregard, disbelieve, challenge feet: (v) legs, pegs, pins, trotters; (n) foots, ft, fete, meter, rescue felicity: (n) happiness, bliss, blessedness, beatitude, luck, felicitousness, joy, fortune, ecstasy, enjoyment, appropriateness. ANTONYM: (n) infelicity fell: (v) cut, chop, bring down, drop, cut down; (adj) barbarous, cruel; (adj, v) prostrate, floor, knock down; (n) skin. ANTONYMS: (v) construct, erect, raise, build fellow: (adj, n) comrade, associate; (n) boy, equal, brother, peer, chap, colleague, compeer, buddy; (adj, n, v) concomitant. ANTONYMS: (n) female, woman, girl, foe, enemy, antagonist, competitor felt: (v) mat, tangle, snarl, braid, entangle, lace, perceive; (adj) sensed, perceived, conscious, sensible fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, get, attract; (adj, n) feint fields: (n) field, domains, plain, notification fields, rotation, alternation of crops, grounds fierce: (adj) bitter, acute, cruel, ferocious, brutal, grim, nasty, intense, ardent; (adj, v) savage, furious. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, mild, calm, quiet, tame, docile, weak, peaceful, pleasant fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, v) fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, passionless, dispassionate,
83 indifferent, placid, gentle, cool; (adv) easygoing fifth: (n) interval, twenty percent, common fraction, fifth part; (adv) fifthly; (v) decimate fifty: (adj, n) l; (n) half a hundred, fifty dollar bill, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre fight: (n, v) battle, dispute, contest, quarrel, engagement, feud, squabble, argue, struggle, clash; (adj, n, v) brawl. ANTONYMS: (n, v) withdrawal, retreat; (n) fear, surrender, agreement; (v) compromise, favor, submit fill: (v) block, clog, stuff, line, charge, execute, accomplish, complete, brim, fulfill; (n) crowd. ANTONYMS: (v) empty, free, deplete, unpack, unload, notch, deflate, desert final: (adj) conclusive, definite, extreme, latter, decisive, definitive, ultimate, last, irrevocable, decided, net. ANTONYMS: (adj) opening, preliminary, initial, inconclusive, foremost, introductory, beginning, fore, impermanent, flexible, provisional find: (v) catch, detect, encounter, come across, feel, attain, ascertain; (n) detection, disclosure, search, discovery. ANTONYMS: (v) misplace, search, fail; (n) loss fine: (adj) delicate, dainty, agreeable, nice, thin, elegant, capital, excellent, brave; (n) penalty; (v) punish. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, thick, wide, coarse, unsatisfactory, substantial, wretched, unpleasant, unimpressive, dark, cloudy finest: (adj, n) elite; (adj) top, select, excellent, most favorable, most excellent, most advantageous, exclusive, classic, best possible; (n) cream finis: (n) finale, conclusion, last, close, finish, end, death, desinence, termination, closing curtain, ending fire: (v) eject, dismiss, kindle, ignite; (n, v) discharge, blaze, flame, explode; (n) ardor, conflagration, fervor. ANTONYMS: (v) hire, defuse, deflate, employ, dampen, detain; (n) laziness firmament: (n) sphere, welkin, heaven, heavens, celestial sphere, expanse, arena, field, vault of heaven, domain, area fits: (v) epilepsy, bustle, racket, fuss, hubbub, megrims, rout, subsultus, staggers fixed: (adj, v) determined, durable;
84 (adj, adv, v) stable; (adj) definite, intent, fast, determinate, certain, set; (adj, adv, n) steady; (adj, n, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) flexible, separate, adaptable, adjustable, changeable, movable, variable, compliant, temporary, removable, portable flagitious: (adj) heinous, atrocious, wicked, evil, monstrous, criminal, nefarious, felonious, vicious, grievous; (adj, v) flagrant flaming: (adj, n) burning, ardent, glowing, passionate; (adj) blazing, ablaze, aflame, hot; (n) enthusiastic, flame, fire. ANTONYMS: (adj) extinguished, placid, gentle, quiet flea: (n) chamois, chigger, chigoe, insect, frog, chigoe flea, epizoon, goat, ectoparasite, chinch, dog flea flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, frame, person, mankind, humanity, meat fling: (n, v) toss, throw, pitch, slam, hurl; (v) chuck, shoot, dash, rush, discard; (n) crack. ANTONYM: (v) collect flint: (adj) stone, pebble, fossil, granite, marble; (n) quartz, silica, flint river, gunflint, crystal, crag florence: (n) Firenze flourishing: (adj) thriving, palmy, healthy, successful, luxuriant, booming, verdant, lush, auspicious, favorable, rich. ANTONYMS: (adj) arid, declining, fading, poor, unhealthy flowering: (adj) blooming, abloom, efflorescent, flourishing; (n) bloom, blossom, flower, anthesis, inflorescence, efflorescence, florescence flowing: (adj) fluent, running, graceful, smooth, fluid, soft, liquid; (n) current, flux, flow; (adj, v) loose. ANTONYMS: (adj) secure, ugly, still, stilted, jerky, harsh, halting foggy: (adj) hazy, misty, brumous, murky, blurred, bleary, fuzzy, opaque, thick, indefinite, nebulous. ANTONYMS: (adj) precise, sunny folded: (adj) plaited, pleated, doubled, artful, braided, corrugated, doubled over, fluted folks: (n) people, folk, tribe, relations, household, house, relatives, relative, kindred, lineage, kin follow: (v) chase, adopt, adhere, succeed, accompany, abide by, comprehend, ensue, track; (adj, v) catch, grasp. ANTONYMS: (v)
Dr. Faustus guide, lead, head, disobey, deny, ignore, misunderstand, predate, exceed, defy, break following: (adj) consequent, ensuing, subsequent, consecutive, succeeding; (adj, v) consequential; (n) entourage, pursuit, followers; (adv) under, after. ANTONYMS: (adj) leading, previous, alternate, earlier; (n) nonbelievers folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity, craziness, density, freak; (adj, n) irrationality, trifling. ANTONYM: (n) sense fond: (adj) affectionate, caring, devoted, tender, loving, amorous, delicate, adoring, doting, ardent, attached. ANTONYMS: (adj) aversion, cold, rough foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy, dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly. ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible, shrewd, prudent, visionary, diplomatic, levelheaded, sane, rational, mature, judicious foot: (n) base, feet, foundation, footing, pes, paw, basis, leg, measure; (v) hoof, pay. ANTONYMS: (v) owe; (n) head forbade: (v) prohibit, to prohibit forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, authorize, stand force: (n, v) drive, squeeze, pressure, thrust; (n) energy, strength, agency; (v) coerce, push, press, compel. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, ineffectiveness, inertia, apathy, moderation; (v) request, wheedle, pull, push, restrain, prevent forefathers: (n) patriarchs, forefather, ancestor, colony, lineage, family forehead: (n) brow, front, foreland, lineament, mut, phiz, physiognomy, visage, eyebrow, skull; (adv) foremost foreign: (adj) extraneous, extrinsic, alien, exterior, external, exotic, strange, oversea, adventitious, unfamiliar, stranger. ANTONYMS: (adj) familiar, domestic, internal, relevant, national, natural forgive: (v) absolve, excuse, acquit, remit, pardon, justify, to forgive, exonerate, overlook, clear, to excuse. ANTONYMS: (v) condemn, punish, castigate form: (n, v) make, fashion, design,
build, arrange, shape; (adj, n) figure; (v) establish, constitute, do; (n) ceremony. ANTONYMS: (v) deform, destroy former: (adj) previous, antecedent, anterior, bygone, earlier, prior, foregoing, original, deceased, past; (adv) formerly. ANTONYMS: (adj) future, last, next, current, following, present, subsequent, later; (n) latter forth: (adv) away, along, onward, ahead, before, on, off, on the high road, on the road, on the way, under way fortune: (n) estate, fate, fluke, destiny, luck, accident, means, assets, riches, abundance, doom. ANTONYM: (n) design fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune, personal narrative, life, journal forty: (adj, n) XL; (n) two score, forties; (adj) twoscore forward: (adj, prep) bold; (adj, adv) onward; (adj) audacious; (adj, n, v) promote; (v) expedite, dispatch; (adv) fore, along, ahead; (adv, n, v) further; (adj, adv, n) early. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) backward; (adj) posterior, timid, reverse, abashed, late, formal; (adv) behind, rearward, back, aft foul: (adj, v) nasty, base, corrupt, coarse; (adj) filthy, disgusting, evil, unclean, putrid; (n, v) defile, soil. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure; (adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive, humane, attractive, honest, pleasing, fragrant; (v) unclog found: (v) erect, build, base, form, construct, constitute, appoint, institute, set up, create, ground. ANTONYMS: (v) abolish, disband; (adj) lost four: (n) quaternary, foursome, tetrad, quaternion, quadruplet, square, quarter, quad, air, age of man; (adj, n) IV fourth: (adv) fourthly; (n) interval, third, after part, common fraction, fourth part, quartern, second; (adj) quaternary fourthly: (adv) quaternarily framing: (n) frame, casing, sash, doorcase, cornice, cowcatcher, coaming, deckle, clotheshorse, buffer, derrick franciscan: (n) Gray Friar, Cordelier free: (adj, v) exempt, liberate, discharge; (adj, adv, v) loose; (v) excuse, extricate, relieve, disentangle, ease; (adj, n) frank; (adj) liberal. ANTONYMS: (adj)
Christopher Marlowe restricted, imprisoned, repressive, secure, strict, stuck, confined, tangled, compelled, dependent; (v) confine french: (adj) Gallic, Frankish, Gallican, Gallian; (v) to take French leave; (n) Frenchman, romance language, French people, Daniel Chester French, profanity, the French friar: (n) monk, conventual, cenobite, abbot, monastic, palmer, pilgrim, lay brother, religious, prior, beadsman fried: (adj) fry, grilled, inebriated, daft, deranged, done, intoxicated friend: (adj, n) associate, comrade, companion, fellow, ally; (n) acquaintance, colleague, boyfriend, crony, brother, mate. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, rival, nemesis, adversary, antagonist friends: (n) circle, associates, connections, links, support group, acquaintances friendship: (n) association, familiarity, affection, companionship, friendliness, intimacy, company, attachment, relationship; (n, v) amity, concord. ANTONYMS: (n) hostility, animosity, antagonism, conflict, formality, rivalry, hatred, detachment, distance, isolation frisking: (n) search, hunt, hunting, searching frivolous: (adj) empty, foolish, dizzy, petty, idle, light, flighty, unimportant, flippant, trivial, superficial. ANTONYMS: (adj) important, solemn, worthwhile, vital, weighty, staid, significant, sensible, responsible, crucial, heavy fruitful: (adj) fertile, copious, profitable, abundant, plentiful, rich, fecund, good, fat, productive, lucrative. ANTONYMS: (adj) unproductive, barren, infertile, unfruitful, unprofitable, sterile, fruitless, destructive fruits: (n) revenue full: (adj, n) complete, absolute, entire; (adj) abundant, flush, broad, extensive, ample, total, enough; (adj, adv, n) crowded. ANTONYMS: (adj) lacking, starving, hungry, sketchy, incomplete, thin, deserted, partial, restricted, weak; (v) wane furnace: (n) forge, heater, blast furnace, fireplace, hearth, stove, oven, kiln, electric furnace, cupola, crematorium furthermore: (adv) besides, further,
also, more, again, additionally, in addition, too, what is more; (adv, conj) and; (adj, adv) likewise fury: (n) anger, exasperation, force, resentment, delirium, furor, frenzy, indignation, craze; (adj, n) wrath, ferocity. ANTONYMS: (n) composure, calmness, mildness, calm, pleasure, serenity fustian: (adj, n) rant, jargon; (adj) bombastic, inflated, pompous, grandiloquent, highfalutin, prose run mad; (n) claptrap, blah, grandiosity gain: (n, v) profit, benefit, win, catch, advance; (v) derive, earn, get, attain, reach; (n) earnings. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, deficit, disadvantage, setback; (n, v) decrease; (v) reduce, scatter, collapse galen: (n) Hippocrates gammon: (n) nonsense, fraud, deceit, tosh, flimflam, ham, bacon, balderdash; (v) bilk, hoax, stuff up gape: (v) gawk, yawn, open, glare, goggle, split, dehisce, ogle, see; (adj, n) stare; (n, v) look gates: (n) bill Gates gave: (v) deliver, allow, allot, provide, furnish, impart, administer; (n) gives gaze: (n, v) stare, regard, look, behold; (v) gape, see, contemplate, face, pry, view, glance. ANTONYMS: (v) glance, peek gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind, affable, balmy, mild, feeble, compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) tame. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, loud, fierce, caustic, violent, rough, hardhearted, abrupt, heavy, steep, sheer gentleman: (n) gent, Mr, male, patrician, sir, adult male, esquire, sahib, gentlemen; (adj) gentilhomme, gentlemanly gentlemen: (n) sirs, messieurs gentlewoman: (n) lady, madam, dame, woman, noblewoman, doll, bird, adult female, noble, chick, ma'am german: (n) German language, Jerry, Teuton, Hun, Yiddish, High German; (adj) Teutonic, Germanic; (adj, n) Alman germany: (n) Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, FRG gesture: (n, v) sign, signal, motion; (n) beck, gesticulation, indication, movement; (v) gesticulate, beckon, wave, bless ghost: (n, v) apparition, specter; (n)
85 shade, spirit, demon, soul, spook, spectre, goblin, appearance, monster gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty, ability, talent; (n) donation, flair, bestowal; (n, v) award, present, boon; (adj, n) capacity. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, forfeiture, failing give: (v) extend, commit, donate, endow, contribute, dispense, deliver, convey, grant; (adj, v) bestow, accord. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, take, withhold, retain, receive, keep, get, hide, conceal, starve, withstand given: (adj) apt, disposed, prone, specified, liable, inclined, granted, fixed, conditional; (n) assumption, particular. ANTONYMS: (adj) taken, unwilling gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, accord glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay, blithe, delighted, festive, content, delightful, genial, bright, willing. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, apologetic, dismayed, unwilling, disappointed, sorry gloomy: (adj) black, desolate, dejected, cheerless, depressing, dismal, downcast, disconsolate, melancholy, funereal, downhearted. ANTONYMS: (adj) encouraging, cheery, cheerful, bright, hopeful, light, promising, uplifting, joyful, sunny, clear glorious: (adj) distinguished, beautiful, bright, celebrated, brilliant, eminent, magnificent, super, great, splendid; (adj, v) illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sorrowful, despicable, horrible, shameful, lowly glut: (v) fill, cloy, cram, stuff, deluge, satiate; (n) excess, plethora; (n, v) surfeit, flood, gorge. ANTONYMS: (n, v) undersupply; (n) emptiness, scarcity, lack, dearth, deficit; (v) nibble, empty glutted: (adj) fleshed, fat, exceeding demand, corpulent, fuller, overfull, satiate, congested, blas, gorged, replete gluttony: (n) greediness, edacity, voracity, rapacity, gula, esurience, excess, hoggishness, avidity, insatiability, debauchery goblet: (n) bowl, chalice, cup, mug, grail, beaker, basin, tumbler, rummer, flask; (v) glass godmother: (n) sponsor, godchild, godparent
86 gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth, bullion, treasure, yellow, amber; (adj) aureate, gilt, golden golden: (adj) aureate, fortunate, gilded, auspicious, gold, gilt, lucky, advantageous, fair, favorable, favored. ANTONYM: (adj) inauspicious gone: (adj, prep) past; (adj) deceased, bygone, departed, desperate, lost, late; (adj, v) exhausted, extinct; (adj, adv) absent, away. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, remaining, found, alive goods: (n) cargo, belongings, commodity, merchandise, product, estate, chattels, property, wealth, produce; (n, v) stuff gorgeous: (adj) luxurious, gaudy, attractive, brilliant, wonderful, glorious, gay, florid, palatial, dressy; (adj, v) rich. ANTONYMS: (adj) ugly, unattractive, detestable, shabby grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, embellish, beautify, decorate, embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, demean gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, courteous, compassionate, kind, accommodating, civil; (adj, n) benevolent, congenial, gentle. ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, boorish, discourteous, reserved, rude, abrupt, critical, unkind, hardhearted, harsh, poor grandfather: (n) gramps, grandad, grandpapa, grandpa, grandsire, granddaddy, ancestor, father's father, paternal grandfather, father, forefather grandmother: (n) grandma, granny, crone, grannie, grandam, mother, dam, grandmamma, father's mother, paternal grandmother, hag grant: (adj, v) bestow, allow, confer; (n, v) award, gift, boon; (v) concede, afford, admit, acknowledge; (adj, n, v) present. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, reject, refuse, maintain, prohibit, disagree, retrieve, take, withhold, withdraw grapes: (v) clam, chupatty, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, chowder; (n) vintage gratify: (v) delight, please, appease, accommodate, satisfy, amuse, suit, indulge, cater; (n, v) humor; (adj)
Dr. Faustus contented. ANTONYMS: (v) dissatisfy, displease, disappoint grave: (adj) solemn, serious, critical, earnest, dangerous, sedate, sad, grand; (adj, v) severe, acute; (v) engrave. ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous, funny, cheerful, carefree, slight, nonchalant, trivial, stable, minor, insignificant, favorable great: (adj) eminent, gigantic, big, distinguished, large, extensive, extreme, grand, chief, ample, massive. ANTONYMS: (adj) awful, insignificant, tiny, mild, poor, minor, useless, ordinary, slight, weak, unknown greater: (adj) larger, more, major, higher, superior, most, great, bigger, increased, considerable, not inconsiderable. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, smaller, small, lower greatest: (adj) top, superlative, biggest, utmost, largest, extreme, first; (adj, n) maximum, most; (adj, v) paramount, supreme. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, secondary greece: (n) Hellenic Republic, Ellas green: (adj) callow, immature, young, jealous, youthful, emerald, crude, juvenile, gullible, inexperienced; (adj, v) raw. ANTONYMS: (adj) ripe, urban, withering, sophisticated, seasoned, old, arid, mature, limp, artificial grew: (v) become, develop; (adj) grown grieve: (n, v) distress, aggrieve, afflict, sorrow, annoy; (v) trouble, lament, deplore, bemoan, fret, bewail. ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice, celebrate, encourage ground: (n, v) base, land, floor; (v) found, establish; (adj, n, v) bottom; (n) earth, reason, field, soil, dirt. ANTONYMS: (n) sea, figure; (v) launch, top grounded: (adj) stranded, confined, learned, cognizant, familiar, stuck; (v) shipwrecked, swamped, nonsuited, wrecked, cast away groundwork: (n) bottom, basis, base, foundation, bed, ground, footing, bedrock, fundament, background, substructure grow: (v) expand, advance, augment, enlarge, come, emerge, spring, become, farm, turn, get. ANTONYMS: (v) decrease, weaken, shrink, decline, drop, collapse, struggle, wane, plummet, dwindle, deteriorate
grown: (adj) mature, big, growed, grown-up, developed, ripe, grownup, fully grown, full-grown, growth, become. ANTONYM: (adj) unripe grunt: (v) growl, croak, mutter, complain, murmur, moan, clamor, mumble; (n, v) cry; (n) groan, cottonwick guard: (n) defense, protection, escort, bulwark, watchman, custody, fender; (n, v) care, shield, cover; (adj, n, v) ward. ANTONYMS: (v) endanger, expose, neglect, reveal; (n) attacker guess: (n, v) surmise, estimate, forecast; (v) suppose, deem, reckon, divine, believe, foretell; (n) assumption, supposition guide: (n, v) escort, conduct, govern, channel, control, usher, cicerone; (n) directory, attendant; (v) drive, bring. ANTONYM: (v) follow guilt: (n) sin, criminality, fault, repentance, remorse, offence, guilty, error, culpability, complicity, delinquency. ANTONYM: (n) blamelessness gull: (n, v) fool, cheat, deceive; (v) beguile, bamboozle, cod, befool, take in, kid; (n) chump, cully guns: (n) weapons, weaponry, arms, arsenal, armaments, artillery gush: (n, v) flood, flow, spurt, jet, discharge, stream, rush, surge; (n) burst, effusion; (v) course habitation: (adj, n) abode; (n) domicile, residence, house, home, habitat, lodging, place, occupancy, inhabitation, inhabitancy. ANTONYM: (n) vacancy half: (adj) moiety, part, short, defective; (n) semi, mediety, halve, division, piece, first half; (adv) partly. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) all; (adj) fully, complete hand: (v) give, pass, commit, bestow, afford, communicate, consign; (n) deal, worker, aid, applause. ANTONYMS: (n) boss, foot; (v) take hands: (n) custody, keeping, personnel, safekeeping, hold, shift, workforce, men, manpower, guardianship, full complement hapless: (adj) unlucky, poor, wretched, luckless, miserable, sad, unhappy, ill-fated, inauspicious, jinxed, untoward. ANTONYM: (adj) fortunate happy: (adj) felicitous, contented, gay, buoyant, content, gleeful, gratified, pleasant, glad, carefree;
Christopher Marlowe (adj, n) auspicious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sad, depressed, dejected, sorrowful, miserable, unlucky, sorry, reluctant, irritable, unfortunately, gloomy harbour: (n, v) harbor; (v) conceal, entertain, cherish, contain, bear, shield; (n) anchorage, pier, sanctuary, haven hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look harsh: (adj, v) sharp, bitter; (adj, n) grating, coarse, austere, discordant; (adj) grim, cruel, crude, unkind, stern. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, soft, harmonious, pleasant, lenient, kind, melodious, sweet, mild, lush, friendly haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, rush; (n) celerity, expedition, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, patience, forethought, caution having: (n) estate, possession, acceptance, enjoyment head: (n) captain, boss, froth, foam, crown, chieftain; (n, v) point, lead; (adj, n, v) front; (v) capital, direct. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) subordinate; (n) end, beginning, foot, mouth, rear, tail, body, underling, base; (adj) minor headlong: (adj, adv) headfirst; (adv) directly, hastily, precipitately; (adj) rash, hurried, desperate, precipitous, impetuous, sudden, precipitate. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautiously, considered; (adv) carefully heap: (n, v) pile, aggregate, amass; (n) collection, accumulation, mound, mass, group, lot; (v) bank, collect. ANTONYM: (v) tidy hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out, discover, understand, apprehend, hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj) heard heard: (n) hearing hears: (v) hear heart: (adj, n) core, gist, marrow; (n) spirit, center, essence, basis, kernel, crux, breast, hub. ANTONYMS: (n) body, surface heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly,
miserable, infernal, hellish, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial sphere, space, skies, area, vault of heaven heavy: (adj, n) dull; (adj) deep, fat, dense, grave, dark, full, gross, thick, bulky; (adj, adv) hard. ANTONYMS: (adj) slim, easy, thin, slight, skinny, puny, gentle, insubstantial, animated, nimble, entertaining hebrew: (n) Israelite, Rabbist, rabbinist, kike, Pharisee, redeemer, savior; (adj) Hebraic, Greek, Jewish, dominical hedge: (v) fudge, dodge, elude, evade, skirt, duck, avoid, circumvent, equivocate; (n) barrier, hedging. ANTONYM: (v) confront heel: (n) blackguard, dog, counter, cad, villain, scoundrel, shoe, sole, bounder, tree rest; (v) lean heinous: (adj) atrocious, grievous, evil, wicked, flagrant, flagitious, monstrous, hateful; (adj, v) gross, nefarious, infamous. ANTONYM: (adj) good helen: (n) Helen of Troy hell: (n) blaze, Hades, underworld, perdition, inferno, pandemonium, netherworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, purgatory, trial. ANTONYM: (n) paradise hellish: (adj, v) diabolic, satanic; (adj) infernal, diabolical, fiendish, demonic, beastly, wicked, unholy, detestable; (v) mephistophelian help: (n, v) assist, assistance, support, benefit, favor, avail, cure, assistant; (v) facilitate, ease, alleviate. ANTONYMS: (n) hindrance, detriment, interference, damage, disadvantage, disservice, manager; (v) worsen, aggravate, halt, hurt hence: (adv) consequently, for that reason, therefore, thereby, away, thus, for, then, because, henceforth, as a result henceforth: (adv) hence, in future, after this; (adj) following hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter, afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity, time to come, great beyond, future life heretofore: (adv) formerly, as yet, before, so far, yet, already, until now, previously, once, hereunto; (adv, n) hitherto hide: (n, v) cover, disguise, shelter,
87 veil; (adj, v) obscure; (n) fur, fell, coat; (v) bury, mask; (adj, n, v) darken. ANTONYMS: (v) show, expose, express, divulge, unearth, amplify, advertise, clarify high: (adj, v) elevated; (adj) great, expensive, distinguished, lofty, tall, exalted, heavy, dear; (n) chief; (v) bad. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) low; (adj) deep, short, sober, reasonable, sad, resonant, lowly, husky, unimportant; (n) depression highly: (adv) greatly, extremely, much, loftily, exceedingly, mightily, eminently, toweringly, too, largely; (adj, adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adv) insignificantly, poorly, simply, slightly, ill highness: (n) excellency, altitude, loftiness, nobility, greatness, eminence, size, stateliness, majesty, high, grandeur hills: (n) home, dry land, foothills, earth, ground himself: (pron) herself, themselves, yourself, itself; (adj) myself; (n) yourselves history: (n) account, story, chronicle, annals, background, record, narrative, biography, explanation, origin; (n, v) tale hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither hitherto: (adv) as yet, yet, so far, up to now, until now, thus far, before, hereunto, to date, still, all the same hogshead: (n) cask, barrel, vat hold: (n, v) keep, grip, grasp, entertain; (v) endure, detain, adhere, bear, have, contain, comprise. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, disagree, lose, free, deny, remove, lack; (n) separation, repulsion holiday: (n, v) vacation; (n) festival, time off, sabbath, break, celebration, holy day, leisure, recess; (v) fete; (adj) festive holiness: (n) sanctity, godliness, piety, religion, righteousness, goodness, devotion, divinity, faithfulness, halidom; (adj, n) religiousness. ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, unholiness hollow: (adj, n) blank; (n) cavity, depression, cave, dell; (adj) empty, false; (adj, n, v) concave; (n, v) excavate, dent, scoop. ANTONYMS: (adj) convex, sincere, true, full, meaningful, cramped, valid; (n) hump, bump, hill, lump holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly, religious, blessed, hallowed,
88 spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv) saintly; (adv) sacredly. ANTONYMS: (adj) irreligious, unholy homer: (n) homing pigeon, poet, Winslow homer, bingle, referee, cor, kor, basking shark, base hit, triumph honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere, good, equitable, artless, heartfelt, guileless, frank, forthright, faithful. ANTONYMS: (adj) lying, misleading, guarded, corrupt, disloyal, unwholesome, discourteous, disreputable, fictional, crafty, crooked honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, homage, celebrity, accolade, reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dishonor; (v) disrespect honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, venerable, glorious, honorable, distinguished, aboveboard, good, worthy, right, noble hope: (n, v) trust, desire; (n) aspiration, faith, belief, expectation, confidence, expectancy, anticipation; (v) confide, anticipate. ANTONYMS: (n) reality, past, pessimism, distrust, independence hopeless: (adj) incurable, despondent, forlorn, disconsolate, desperate, impossible, useless, abject, despair, dismal, irreparable. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, competent, promising, optimistic, encouraging, helpful, useful, successful, practical, laudable, effective horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin, junk, charger, knight, pony, rider, trestle, eohippus, dog horses: (n) stock, equidae, domestic animals, cattle, extinct animals, asses, pigs, sheep, family equidae, farm animals, force hour: (n) clock, o'clock, hours, time, hr, term, nonce, moment, occasion, dawn, dusk hours: (n) period, duty period; (adv) o'clock house: (adj, n, v) family; (adj, n) home; (v) accommodate; (n) dwelling, firm, abode, domicile, edifice, habitation, housing; (n, v) lodge. ANTONYM: (adj) public huge: (adj) vast, immense, large, gigantic, enormous, extensive, great, colossal, elephantine, major, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) insignificant, miniature, small, affordable, compact, measly, minor,
Dr. Faustus minute, slight, slim human: (n) person, man, human being, homo, gay, party; (adj, adv) fleshly; (adj) humane, earthly, corporeal, worldly. ANTONYMS: (adj) nonhuman, otherworldly, heavenly, immortal humbly: (adv) lowly, meanly, modestly, submissively, low, shyly, lowlily, naturally, regretfully, remorsefully, repentantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) conceitedly, haughtily, pompously, ostentatiously, unrepentantly, affluently, brashly, pretentiously hundred: (adj) a hundred, one hundred, many; (adj, n) c; (n) cent, centred, riding, lathe, soke, tithing, carbon hung: (n) hanging; (v) Heng; (adj) fatigued, puzzled, decorated hungry: (adj) eager, avid, famished, starving, esurient, greedy, ravenous, desirous, meager, starveling; (v) starve. ANTONYMS: (adj) full, satiated, sated, thirsty, unconcerned, moderate, healthy, disinterested hurt: (adj, n, v) damage, detriment; (adj, n) evil; (n, v) wound, pain, ache, distress; (n) disadvantage, lesion; (v) afflict; (adj, v) injure. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhurt, unaffected, healed; (v) encourage, please, protect, repair, defend; (n, v) help; (n) reparation, pleasure illiberal: (adj) close, churlish, covetous, intolerant, insular, bigoted, avaricious, small, mean, miserly; (adj, v) sordid. ANTONYM: (adj) generous illusions: (n) fantasy imagine: (v) believe, conjecture, fancy, conceive, daydream, assume, guess, consider, fantasize; (conj, v) suppose; (n, v) dream immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, undying, endless, monumental; (adj, v) deathless, imperishable, celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, forgettable, perishable, temporary impeach: (v) accuse, criminate, blame, censure, query, denounce, challenge, question, condemn; (n, v) arraign, indict imperial: (adj) majestic, grand, dignified, imperious, purple, stately, August, regal, noble, lordly; (adj, n) beard incessant: (adj) endless, continual, everlasting, eternal, constant, continuous, perpetual, unremitting,
interminable, persistent; (adj, v) frequent. ANTONYMS: (adj) intermittent, occasional, sporadic, broken, finite inch: (n) in, bit, column inch, morsel; (v) crawl, creep, ease; (adj) tatter, mite, seed, shive indeed: (adv) certainly, exactly, in reality, surely, of course, assuredly, as a matter of fact, admittedly; (adj, adv) really, much; (n) yes. ANTONYMS: (adv) possibly, doubtfully india: (n) Indian, crotalaria spectabilis, Africa, Bharat, Dovyalis, genus Dovyalis, IND, Indian rattlebox indian: (n) American Indian, Red Indian, redskin, India, Amerindian, Shoshones, Aleut, squaw, sannup, creeks; (adj, n) Amerind infamous: (adj) disreputable, flagrant, notorious, disgraceful, dishonourable, contemptible; (adj, v) foul, shameful, base; (adj, n, v) scandalous; (adj, adv, v) nefarious. ANTONYMS: (adj) reputable, famous inferior: (adj) secondary, bad, humble, poor, junior, petty, lesser, cheap, base, feeble, vulgar. ANTONYMS: (adj) better, choice, excellent, premium, adscript, perfect, higher, quality, senior; (adj, n) superscript; (n) boss infernal: (adj) devilish, fiendish, diabolical, demonic, damned, cursed, blasted, unholy, wicked; (adj, v) diabolic, satanic infinite: (adj) absolute, eternal, endless, countless, immense, incalculable, boundless, innumerable, immeasurable, everlasting, spaceless. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, limited, restricted, small, tiny, slight influence: (v) determine, affect, incline, dispose, direct, govern, persuade; (n) authority, domination; (n, v) control, effect. ANTONYMS: (n) powerlessness, repulsion, feebleness, weakness inform: (v) acquaint, impart, advise, enlighten, announce, tell, familiarize, explain, advertise, apprise, warn injure: (n, v) damage, harm, impair; (v) contuse, disfigure, maim, bruise, blemish, wound, insult; (adj, v) abuse. ANTONYMS: (v) heal, enable, repair, protect, help injurious: (adj) evil, harmful, hurtful,
Christopher Marlowe destructive, bad, disadvantageous, detrimental, adverse, deleterious, inimical, damaging. ANTONYMS: (adj) healing, favorable, healthy, helpful, advantageous, beneficial injury: (n, v) harm, grievance, detriment, damage, hurt; (n) disservice, wound, impairment, ill, bruise, affront. ANTONYMS: (n) reparation, justice, help, defense, benefit inscription: (n) epigraph, entry, dedication, autograph, epitaph, registration, lettering, writing, record, superscription, title instance: (n) exemplar, case, time, illustration, sample, affair, pattern, chance, cause; (v) exemplify, illustrate instead: (adv) instead of, alternatively, as an alternative, in place of, more willingly, to compensate for, sooner, preferably, otherwise, on the other hand; (n) lieu instruct: (v) charge, educate, teach, advise, enlighten, direct, drill, inform, command, indoctrinate, tutor intent: (n) idea, intention, design, spirit, meaning, import, goal, purpose; (adj, n) attentive; (adj) absorbed, engrossed interest: (n, v) advantage, care, benefit; (adj, v) engage; (n) affair, account, gain, hobby, eagerness, enthusiasm, sake. ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, apathy, boredom, distraction, hostility, detachment, inattention, repulsion; (v) repel, appall interrupting: (adj) cross, interchanged, interpelling, meddlesome, adverse, defensive, contrary, interpellant, interruptive intolerable: (adj) unbearable, insupportable, painful, obnoxious, detestable, inexcusable, deplorable, undesirable, hard, excruciating, difficult. ANTONYMS: (adj) bearable, tolerable, acceptable, reasonable, nice, understandable, lovable, excusable, inoffensive, manageable invented: (adj) fictional, fabricated, imaginary, unreal, fake, mythical, legendary, fictive, fancied, fabulous, ben trovato. ANTONYMS: (adj) genuine, factual, true, actual inviolate: (adj, v) intact; (adj) sacred, sacrosanct, whole, entire, pure; (v) in petto, clandestine, auricular,
close, privy invisible: (adj) obscure, hidden, inconspicuous, intangible, sightless, concealed, impalpable, occult, indiscernible, inappreciable, unseen. ANTONYMS: (adj) obvious, conspicuous, noticeable, palpable inward: (adj) inner, intrinsic, internal, interior, intestine, inherent, domestic; (adv) inwardly, inwards, in; (n) innards. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) outward; (adj) outgoing, external ireful: (adj) irate, angry, heated, acrimonious, greatly incensed, incensed, irascible issue: (v) emanate, arise, emerge; (n) aftermath, progeny, consequence, effect; (n, v) egress, release, exit, result. ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, trickle, withhold; (n) resolution iterating: (adj) iterant, redundant itself: (adj) herself, self, oneself, personally, myself, themselves, yourself jesting: (adj) jocular, jocose, facetious, humorous, playful; (n) banter, humor, comedy, pleasantry, fun, joke. ANTONYM: (n) tragedy john: (n) can, bathroom, convenience, customer, privy, loo, lav, lavatory, Saint John the Apostle, Saint John; (adj, n) toilet join: (v) unite, connect, associate, combine, graft, assemble, attach, affiliate, meet, get together; (n, v) link. ANTONYMS: (v) separate, secede, detach, undo, disjoin, exclude, leave, disconnect, diverge, refrain, untie jointly: (adv) conjointly, collectively, unitedly, mutually, together, communally, combinedly, cooperatively, reciprocally, commonly, in agreement. ANTONYM: (adv) individually jolly: (adj) gay, cheerful, happy, festive, genial, bright, cheery, merry, jocund; (v) chaff; (adv) lively. ANTONYMS: (adj) gloomy, miserable, serious journey: (n, v) jaunt, go, travel, cruise, fare; (n) excursion, way, expedition, trip, passage, voyage. ANTONYM: (v) settle jove: (n) Jovian, Jovinianist, thunderer jupiter: (n) Jove, blazon, deity, father, Zeus, solar system, thunderer keel: (n) foot, hoof, carina, root, fin keel; (v) careen, cool, pitch, tumble, droop, flag
89 keep: (n, v) hold; (v) preserve, retain, defend, guard, maintain, continue, have, save, confine, observe. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, neglect, entrust, return, let, discontinue, reimburse, allow, stop, destroy, break kill: (n, v) assassinate, destroy; (v) erase, annihilate, eliminate, extinguish, finish, blast, decimate, execute, eradicate. ANTONYMS: (v) revitalize, revive; (n) hunter killed: (n) casualty; (adj) fallen kind: (n) sort, form, class, variety, breed; (adj, n) helpful, good, humane, friendly, gentle; (adj) generous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unkind, cruel, hardhearted, mean, merciless, nasty, spiteful, uncaring, upsetting, callous, disagreeable kindness: (n) generosity, clemency, compassion, grace, good will, graciousness, humanity, goodness, affection; (adj, n) courtesy, gentleness. ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, spite, nastiness, callousness, cruelty, unfriendliness, maliciousness, thoughtlessness, sourness, severity, disservice king: (n) mogul, sovereign, chief, crown, tycoon, baron, ruler, magnate, majesty, rex, power. ANTONYM: (n) queen kingdom: (n) domain, realm, state, empire, dominion, territory, nation, crown, monarchy, department, land kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace, touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate, love kneel: (v) genuflect, cringe, stoop, bob, cry for quarter, dip, duck, humble oneself; (n) kneeling, knee, movement knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub knock: (n, v) hit, blow, bang, bump, tap, strike, whack, bash, punch, cuff; (n) crash. ANTONYMS: (n) improvement, boost; (v) encourage, bolster, approve knowledge: (n) information, comprehension, science, lore, understanding, intelligence, grasp, erudition, acquaintance; (n, v) cognition; (adj, n) art. ANTONYMS: (n) foolishness, inexperience labour: (n, v) travail, labor, toil; (v) grind, fag, drudge; (n) exertion, employment, confinement, childbed, business
90 labouring: (adj) drudging, work, working, busy, toiling lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. ANTONYM: (n) Lord laid: (adj) layed, lay, place, placed, put, situated, arranged, determined, dictated, hardened, ordered lain: (adj) artless, unsophisticated, unaffected, naive, untutored, simple, pure, natural, native, inartificial land: (n) country, earth, soil, kingdom, field, nation, estate, domain; (v) disembark, debark, get. ANTONYMS: (adj) aquatic, amphibious; (n) sea; (v) lose, depart, embark lastly: (adv) eventually, ultimately, latterly, in conclusion, last, at last, terminally, latestly, utmostly, definitively, concludingly. ANTONYM: (adv) initially late: (adj, adv) dilatory, fresh, behindhand, backward; (adj) former, deceased, dead, slow, delayed, modern; (adv) belatedly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) early, punctual; (adv) punctually, promptly; (adj) ahead, existing, alive, initial, middle, old, premature latest: (adj) last, fresh, modern, new, current, hot, ultimate, contemporary, newest, stylish; (adj, n) vogue. ANTONYM: (adj) first laugh: (n, v) joke, giggle, chortle, titter, snicker; (v) smile; (n) jest, gag, jape, laughter, cackle. ANTONYM: (v) weep lean: (adj, v) gaunt; (adj) emaciated, thin, bony, lank; (n, v) bend, tilt, slant, list, careen; (n) inclination. ANTONYMS: (adj) plump, rich, chubby, greasy, stout; (v) straighten, repel leap: (n, v) bound, spring, bounce, caper, dive, vault, lunge; (v) dance, hop, start; (n) curvet. ANTONYMS: (n, v) plummet; (v) surface, drop, hesitate; (n) slump leapt: (adj) sprung learned: (adj) educated, knowledgeable, scholarly, academic, cultured, literary, bookish, lettered; (adj, v) enlightened, wise, knowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) innate, unconditioned, foolish, unlearned leave: (v) depart, go, abandon, desert, lead; (adj, v) forsake, quit; (n) furlough, permission, holiday; (n, v) escape. ANTONYMS: (v) enter,
Dr. Faustus arrive, stay, remain, come, approach, change, reposition, disinherit, occupy, participate leaving: (n) leave, exit, desertion, going, going away, farewell, departing, abandonment, withdrawal, boarding; (v) depart. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, greeting, Reunion; (adj) incoming lechery: (n) lasciviousness, vice, lubricity, lust, desire, lecherousness, sensuality, incontinency, concupiscence, salacity; (adj) pruriency left: (adj) gone, absent, port, odd, remaining, larboard, gauche, sinister; (n) left hand, left wing, mitt. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n) right; (adj) remaining, center, starboard, present less: (adj) inferior, wanting, minor, secondary, subordinate, deficient, minus, few; (adj, adv) lesser, lower; (adv) below. ANTONYMS: (adj) additional; (prep) plus letter: (n) epistle, mail, character, communication, alphabetic character, dispatch, note, message, memorandum, type, memo letters: (n) erudition, literature, correspondence, lore, script, scholarship, post, print, mail, letter, polite literature level: (adj, adv, v) equal; (adj, adv, n, v) flat; (n) grade, degree; (adj, v) flatten; (n, v) floor; (adj) horizontal; (v) dismantle, raze, aim, demolish. ANTONYMS: (adj) slanting, unequal, angled, unsteady, askew, rough, shaky; (adj, v) uneven; (v) raise, build, crumple levy: (v) impose, raise, inflict, recruit; (n) duty, assessment, impost, tribute, toll, gathering; (n, v) charge library: (n) program library, collection, depository library, atheneum, athenaeum, room, repository, series, public library, study, subroutine library lice: (n) fleas, parasites, vermin lies: (n) fabrication, falsehood, lie, lying, deceit, defamation, denigration, dishonesty, slander, libel, treachery. ANTONYM: (n) truth life: (adj, n) animation; (n) energy, spirit, activity, dash, enthusiasm, being, biography, existence, exuberance, live. ANTONYMS: (n) death, apathy, extinction, nonexistence, lifelessness lift: (n, v) raise, rise, elevator, boost,
heave, hike, airlift, advance; (v) elevate, erect, filch. ANTONYMS: (v) lower, descend, drop, hinder, put, return, impose; (n, v) knock likeness: (n) resemblance, copy, effigy, image, affinity, similarity, correspondence, facsimile; (adj, n) figure, form, semblance. ANTONYMS: (n) difference, diversity, dissimilarity, unlikeness, contrast limited: (adj) circumscribed, qualified, special, moderate, insular, slender, bounded, scanty, narrow, specific, particular. ANTONYMS: (adj) open, infinite, limitless, complete, wide, unlimited, extensive, vague, adequate, ample, diverse limits: (n) confines, bounds, range, frontier, area, circumference, perimeter, field, margin, boundaries; (v) confine. ANTONYM: (n) middle lines: (n) cavesson, jaquima, hackamore, headstall, ribbons, words, contour, shape, position, piece, part lions: (n) dogs, order Carnivora, leopards, jackals, bears, Felidae, family Felidae, cheetahs, cats, Carnivora lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference per second, chops, porch, portal, portico, propylon, snout, door, orifice list: (n) catalogue, catalog, inclination, index, calendar, enumeration; (n, v) file, tilt, schedule; (v) enter, itemize little: (adj, adv) small; (adj) diminutive, insignificant, short, tiny, some, brief, petty, minute, exiguous; (adv) rather. ANTONYMS: (adj) enormous, large, important, huge, high, giant, older, old, tall; (adv) frequently, well live: (adj) alive, living; (adj, v) reside, active, dwell, stay; (n, v) subsist; (v) exist, be, abide, endure. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, inactive, silent, dummy, blank, recorded; (v) die, perish, expire lively: (adj, adv) jolly, sprightly; (adj, v) active, cheerful; (adj) energetic, agile, keen, busy, gay, fresh, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) lethargic, listless, inactive, unexciting, lifeless, awkward, sad, gentle, tired, insipid, subdued lives: (n) life, living, estate, existence, earnest living living: (adj) alive, live, extant,
Christopher Marlowe animated, active, fresh, animate, quick; (n) livelihood, life, being. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n) death, leisure loathsome: (adj) foul, hideous, distasteful, disgusting, hateful, abominable, revolting, execrable, loathly, nauseous, horrible. ANTONYMS: (adj) delightful, nice, noble, inoffensive, pleasant, admirable, good, attractive lock: (n, v) bar, hug; (v) close, latch, fasten, engage, hold; (adj, n) hair; (n) curl, padlock, hook. ANTONYMS: (v) open, undo, disengage, flex; (n) key; (adv) partially, partly long: (v) yearn, desire, hanker, languish, ache, wish; (adj, n) extensive; (n, v) hunger; (adj) extended, lengthy; (n) length. ANTONYMS: (adj) short, brief, concise longing: (n, v) desire, aspiration; (adj) eager, wistful, nostalgic; (n) nostalgia, wish, hankering, urge, appetite; (adj, n) yearning. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, disinclination; (adj) satisfied, unconcerned look: (n, v) gaze, aspect, figure; (adj, v) seem; (v) appear, expect; (n) appearance, expression, view, glance, guise. ANTONYMS: (v) back, study; (n) perusal looks: (n) aspect, countenance, expression, manner, complexion, fashion, costume, garb lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, master, God, seignior, nobility, Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n) lady lorraine: (n) Lotharingia lost: (adj, v) forlorn, extinct, gone, missing, helpless; (adj) hopeless, bewildered, forgotten, disoriented, broken; (n) loss. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, found, existing, won, saved, aware love: (n) desire, fondness, affection, dear, liking, benevolence, charity, honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v) worship. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike; (n) abhorrence, hatred, aversion, detestation, detachment, indifference; (v) abhor; (adv) roughly lovely: (adj) beautiful, charming, lovable, enchanting, delightful, handsome, alluring, elegant, endearing, gorgeous; (adv) comely. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, hideous, ugly, unattractive,
horrifying, horrid, unappealing, repellent, detestable, dreadful, awkward lucifer: (n) Satan, Beelzebub, the Devil, match, fusee, fuzee, friction match, light, archfiend, Vesta, vesuvian lukewarm: (adj) indifferent, warm, cold, listless, halfhearted, mild, cool, unenthusiastic, apathetic, genial, frigid. ANTONYMS: (adj) hot, cool, cold, keen lusty: (adj) energetic, stout, lustful, corpulent, potent, virile, vigorous, hearty, sturdy, bouncing, dynamic. ANTONYM: (adj) feeble madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd magic: (n) incantation, charm, enchantment, sorcery, legerdemain, conjuring, glamour, black magic, illusion, theurgy; (adj) magical. ANTONYMS: (n) dullness, science; (adj) everyday, prosaic, normal, natural magician: (n) enchanter, conjurer, illusionist, wizard, conjuror, thaumaturge, magicians, performer, magus, necromancer, prestidigitator maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass, lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, maiden, housemaid, handmaid maine: (n) pine tree state majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, magnificence, stateliness, greatness, king, royalty, highness. ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, simplicity manly: (adj) manlike, masculine, manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv) manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely; (adj, adv) stately. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, unmanly, cowardly; (adv) unmanfully manner: (adj, n) kind; (n) bearing, demeanor, method, form, appearance, carriage, way; (n, v) custom, style, habit marching: (n) walking, mar, drill; (adj) ongoing, moving mark: (adj, n, v) notice; (n, v) brand, score, heed, label, blemish; (n) sign, impression, character; (v) characterize, distinguish. ANTONYM: (n) enhancement marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get married, link, conjoin, wive, splice, tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage. ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate,
91 split mars: (v) grim visaged war; (n) solar system, terrestrial planet, Red Planet, Bellona martin: (n) house Martin, Dino Paul Crocetti, Mary Martin, Steve Martin, bank swallow, bank Martin, dean Martin marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy, curiosity, phenomenon, amazement, miracle, portent, marl, surprise, admiration; (v) admire. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) nightmare mass: (adj, n) bulk, lump, block; (n, v) flock, crowd, cluster, pile, bunch; (n) magnitude, collection, majority. ANTONYMS: (n) lightness, few; (v) disperse massy: (adj) bulky, ample, voluminous, heavy, considerable, weighty, ponderous, compacted, in mass, beamy master: (n) captain, instructor, lord; (v) control, conquer, command, dominate, defeat; (adj, n) original, head, ace. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, servant, novice, amateur master's: (n) postgraduate degree match: (n, v) mate, meet, pair, fellow; (v) agree, harmonise, accord, correspond, harmonize; (adj, n, v) parallel; (n) peer. ANTONYMS: (v) contradict, conflict, disagree, jar, differ; (n) difference mate: (n, v) equal, partner, spouse; (adj, n) companion, comrade, fellow, associate, friend; (n) compeer, consort, husband matter: (n) business, substance, issue, material, affair, concern, incident, article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n) import matters: (n) affairs, materials, dealings, proceedings meals: (n) nourishment, fare, food, meal, the food we eat, provisions mean: (adj, n) middle, low, contemptible, average, medium, common; (v) design; (n, v) imply, denote; (adj) ignoble, hateful. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, kind, extravagant, charitable, luxurious, rich, expansive, extreme, great; (n) maximum, minimum meanest: (adj) last, least means: (n) instrument, agency, income, assets, manner, funds, capital, channel, property, resource, resources. ANTONYM: (n) poverty meantime: (adv) meanwhile, in the meantime, simultaneously; (n)
92 interval, interlude, while, at times, whiles, mean, instrument meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core, kernel, heart, substance, marrow, crux, matter, beef meet: (v) find, converge, assemble, gather, fulfill, congregate, answer, cross, confront, intersect; (adv, v) encounter. ANTONYMS: (v) diverge, disperse, separate, part, leave, differ, disband melodious: (adj) harmonious, musical, sweet, tuneful, mellow, dulcet, soft, gentle, full, canorous, mellifluous. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, unmelodious, inharmonious, tuneless, grating, loud melting: (n) thawing, fusion, melt, dissolution, warming, thaw, liquefaction, fusion range; (adj) liquescent, pathetic; (adj, n) dissolving mercenary: (adj, n) hireling; (adj, v) sordid; (adj) mercantile, materialistic, covetous, commercial, greedy, venal, avaricious, selfish; (v) illiberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) altruistic, philanthropic mercury: (n) Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver, metal, messenger, spirit, comet, Hermes, terrestrial planet, hectogram, iris mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, harshness, unkindness, severity, mercilessness, ruthlessness, impatience, inhumanity mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare, simple, pure; (n) loch, tarn, boundary, absolute; (n, v) downright; (adv) merely; (adj, v) clear merriment: (n) fun, amusement, cheerfulness, hilarity, glee, jollity, frolic, gaiety, happiness, festivity; (adj, n) mirth. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, gloom, seriousness, despondency, boredom metaphysics: (n) ontology, metaphysic, outside actual experience, ontological, cosmological, philosophy metempsychosis: (n) rebirth, phenomenon, reincarnation, mutagenesis transanimation, conversion methinks: (adv) meseems middle: (n) heart, hub, core, center; (adj, n) mean, median, mid; (adj)
Dr. Faustus intermediate, halfway, mediate, central. ANTONYMS: (adj) extreme, outer, late, early; (adj, n) outside; (n) extremity, perimeter, beginning, end, circumference, surface midnight: (n) dark, noon, hour midst: (adj, n) middle; (adv) mid, between; (prep) among, amid; (n) core, center, thick, interior, heart, waist might: (n) power, energy, ability, influence, strength, puissance, vehemence, intensity; (v) may, can, could. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, feebleness, meekness mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, insignificant mile: (n) MI, nautical mile, land mile, knot, Swedish mile, international nautical mile, Admiralty mile, air mile, geographical mile, Roman mile; (v) furlong mind: (n, v) intellect, notice, regard; (v) care, look, attend, beware, keep, listen, look after; (n) disposition. ANTONYMS: (v) forget, neglect, disregard, disobey, Miss, ignore; (n) emotion, inattention; (adj) physical mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n) excavation, pit, fund, land mine, vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my, delve mingle: (v) compound, combine, merge, amalgamate, intermix, mix, commingle, associate, confuse, join, intermingle. ANTONYM: (v) part minister: (n) envoy, priest, deputy, divine, ambassador, churchman, clergyman, cleric, curate, ecclesiastic; (v) supply minx: (n) flirt, hussy, vamp, jackanapes, malapert, mink, slut, jade, quean, woman, bitch mirth: (adj, n) merriment, jollity; (n) amusement, happiness, delight, joy, hilarity, cheerfulness, festivity, gladness, exhilaration. ANTONYMS: (n) gloom, sadness, misery miserable: (adj, v) forlorn, wretched, unhappy; (adj) mean, low, abject, deplorable, downcast, bad, desolate; (adj, adv) meager. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, generous, cheerful, cheery, bright, fortunate, hopeful, jubilant, luxurious, overjoyed, heavenly mistress: (n) dame, concubine, madame, inamorata, lady, lover,
fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept woman, missis mobile: (adj) fluid, unsettled, mercurial, expressive, lively, agile, migrant, motile, erratic, versatile; (adj, v) movable. ANTONYMS: (adj) motionless, impassive, immobile, fixed, unmoving; (n) stabile mole: (n) jetty, freckle, spy, bulwark, nevus, mol, groyne, blemish, birthmark; (adj, v) mound; (v) embankment monarch: (n) sovereign, lord, emperor, ruler, czar, despot, autocrat, tsar, tzar, Danaus Plexippus; (adj) prince money: (n) currency, capital, kale, funds, means, lucre, assets, legal tender, pelf, cash, dough monstrous: (adj) huge, atrocious, heinous, monster, immense, gigantic, grievous, ugly, flagitious, dreadful; (adj, v) grotesque. ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, minute, beautiful, good, small, lovely, attractive month: (n) calendar month, months, lunation, minute, hour, day, period, quarter, quinquennium, year, moonshine moon: (adj) lunar; (n) month, moonshine, satellite, moonlight, luck, lunar month, GHURRY, epoch, orb of night; (v) daydream morning: (n) dawn, sunrise, morn, forenoon, daylight, first light, am, dayspring, aurora, cockcrow, dawning. ANTONYMS: (n) sunset, nighttime, nightfall mother: (n) mamma, mommy, origin, mama, ma, mammy, mummy; (n, v) father; (v) engender, generate, beget motion: (n) action, movement, gesticulation, play, exercise, passage; (n, v) wave, sign, signal; (v) beckon, gesticulate. ANTONYMS: (n) inertia, motionlessness, inactivity, stillness; (v) dismiss mount: (n, v) rise, climb, frame; (v) board, arise, advance, jump, increase; (n) hill, mountain; (adj, v) ride. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, decrease, wane, dismount; (n) valley, hollow mouse: (v) sneak, creep, steal, snoop, seek; (n) track, hunt, field mouse, fieldmouse, trace; (adj) small fry mouth: (n) lip, lips, aperture, edge, entrance, snout, entry; (n, v) grimace; (v) articulate, pronounce, speak move: (v) excite, go, affect, carry,
Christopher Marlowe touch, instigate, travel; (n, v) act, drive, transfer, maneuver. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, restore, refrain, remain, rest, withdraw, stop, repel, come, leave moving: (adj) affecting, exciting, emotional, impressive, mobile, pitiful, poignant, touching; (n) movement, motive, transport. ANTONYMS: (adj) motionless, depressing, stationary, unemotional, fixed, unmoving, everyday, immobile, nonmoving, ridiculous, boring muse: (v) meditate, ponder, deliberate, consider, cogitate, reflect, brood, ruminate, speculate, think, mull. ANTONYM: (v) wander mutton: (n) lamb, em, mouton, mut, sheep, pork, red meat, white meat, beef, area unit; (v) pilot bread myself: (pron) me, itself, herself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) I, yourselves; (adv) in person, for myself, in my opinion. ANTONYMS: (adv) universally, generally naked: (adj, v) bare; (adj) nude, exposed, open, barren, raw, bleak, unclothed, defenseless, au naturel, defenceless. ANTONYMS: (adj) covered, concealed, hidden, dressed nakedness: (n) nudity, altogether, baldness, nude, nudeness, undress, birthday suit, openness, status, emptiness, frankness name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize, list, enumerate, identify, cite, mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n) epithet. ANTONYMS: (n) nobody, indecency named: (adj, v) called; (adj) nominative, nominal, chosen, appointed, nominated, designated, titled, specified; (v) benempt, ycleped names: (n) calumny, defamation, hatchet job naming: (n) appointment, identification, denomination, appellation, nomination, indication, delegacy, assignment, mention; (adj, n) appellative; (adj) designating natural: (adj) inherent, innate, unaffected, instinctive, artless, congenital, inborn, normal, intrinsic, essential, native. ANTONYMS: (adj) affected, refined, false, cultivated, unnatural, paranormal, supernatural, abnormal, forced, exceptional, strained nature: (n) disposition, essence,
quality, creation, breed, temperament, type, attribute; (adj, n) character, class, manner near: (adj, adv, v) close, at hand; (adv, prep) by, around, towards; (adj, v) familiar, adjoining, approximate; (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv) almost; (adj) imminent. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, far, further, actual, exact; (v) leave necessary: (adj, n, v) requisite; (adj, v) important; (adj) inevitable, compulsory, mandatory, fundamental, main, indispensable; (n) necessity, demand; (adj, n) basic. ANTONYMS: (adj) optional, surplus, needless, unjustified, dispensable, possible, unimportant, voluntary, nonessential, inappropriate; (n) inessential necessity: (n) demand, need, lack, exigency, essential, compulsion, emergency, distress, must, constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS: (n) inessential, treat, unimportance, luxury neck: (n) cervix, nape, neckband, neckline, isthmus; (v) make out, pet, love, cut; (adj) stricture, middle constriction necromantic: (adj) mystic, mysterious, necromantical need: (adj, n, v) lack, want; (n, v) demand, desire, deficiency, must, destitution; (n) necessity, requirement; (v) require, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) obviate, dislike, have; (n) option, luxury, glut, unimportance, affluence, prosperity needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully, indispensably, by necessity, inescapably, of necessity, ineluctably; (n) must, requirement, necessity; (adj) needed ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not neither: (conj) either, no-one, not either, nor, nother never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always, not ever, by no means, at all times, not at all, not, NE. ANTONYMS: (adv) always, forever newly: (adv) freshly, recently, lately, new, late, novelly, unusedly, anew, fresh; (adj, adv) afresh; (adj) recent news: (n) advice, message, information, intelligence, tidings, story, report, notice, communication, gossip; (adj) new next: (adj) nearest, adjacent, contiguous, following, future, coming, ensuing, after; (adv, conj) then, afterward; (adj, v) subsequent.
93 ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) previous, previously, preceding; (adj) outgoing, distant; (adv) before niggard: (n) churl, skinflint, tightwad, scrooge, hunks, screw, scrimp, curmudgeon; (adj, n) miser; (adj) niggardly, stingy night: (n) dark, dusk, darkness, gloaming, twilight, nighttime, Nox, eventide, period; (adj) nocturnal, gloomy. ANTONYMS: (n) day, light, sunrise nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night nisi: (conj) inconclusive nobody: (n) cipher, naught, zero, nil, nothing, nonentity, cypher, zip, whippersnapper, none; (n, pron) no one. ANTONYMS: (n) celebrity, notable, somebody; (pron) everyone, anyone, everybody noise: (n, v) clatter, echo; (n) clamor, hubbub, racket, sound, disturbance, uproar, din, buzz, clang. ANTONYMS: (n) silence, quiet, quietness, sense none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever nothing: (adv, n) naught; (adj, n) nil, null; (n) nobody, cipher, nihil, nonentity, trifle, nix, aught, cypher. ANTONYMS: (pron) anything, everything, some; (n) all numen: (n) spirit, gift nuts: (adj) crazy, insane, balmy, nutty, crackers, loopy, batty, barmy, loony, dotty, daft. ANTONYM: (adj) sensible oath: (n) expletive, malediction, imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, swearing, pledge, assurance, asseveration; (v) swear obedience: (n) meekness, submission, deference, obeisance, acquiescence, subordination, bow, observance, docility, loyalty, allegiance. ANTONYMS: (n) disobedience, defiance, naughtiness, resistance, divergence, chaos, wildness obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, good, conformable, tame, acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, amenable, subservient. ANTONYMS: (adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious, crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, resistant obey: (v) comply, listen, keep, fulfill, hear, conform, abide by, serve, comply with; (n, v) mind, heed. ANTONYMS: (v) disobey, defy, break, transgress, infringe, challenge, deny
94 object: (n) cause, intent, meaning, mark, subject, objective, substance; (n, v) aim, end, intention; (v) except. ANTONYMS: (v) agree, approve, praise; (n) notion obtain: (v) acquire, have, get, earn, achieve, attain, accomplish, derive, effect, make, collect. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, relinquish, sell, dispatch, give ocean: (n) deep, brine, salt water, main, waves, watery waste, multitude, lot; (adj) oceanic, many, marine odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious; (adj) detestable, hideous, nasty, execrable, disgusting, abhorrent, abominable, heinous, forbidding. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant, delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice o'er: (adv) on, upon, across offence: (n) insult, injury, guilt, error, delinquency, fault, misdeed, infraction, infringement, attack, offense offer: (v) give, bestow, put, tender, extend, impart, introduce, advance, propose; (n) proposal, proposition. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold, take offered: (adj) presented, accessible, existing, obtainable, available, ready, on hand, to be had, unsolicited often: (adj, adv) oft; (adv) much, again and again, repeatedly, ofttimes, oftentimes, many times, always, commonly, again; (adj) frequent. ANTONYMS: (adv) seldom, infrequently, never olympus: (n) Olimbos omnipotence: (n) state, providence, omniscience, omnipresence, power, mastery once: (adv, n) formerly; (adv) before, ever, previously, one time, at one time, already, erst; (adj, adv) erstwhile; (adj) former; (n) whilom. ANTONYM: (adv) future opus: (n) work, piece of music, piece, writing, octet, musical composition, medley, canon, divertimento, duet, bagatelle ordnance: (n) artillery, cannon, armament, munitions, arsenal, weapons, heavy weapon, catapult, bricole, munition, ordinance orient: (v) adjust, reorient, guide, glossy, orientate, change orientation, burnished, aline, glassy; (adj) eastern; (n) Eastern Hemisphere ostler: (n) groom, stableboy,
Dr. Faustus stableman, hostleress, jockey, tiger, swineherd, herdsman, hired hand, hired man, gillie others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave, LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission ourselves: (pron) myself, herself, itself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) me, yourselves, usself overwhelm: (v) overpower, defeat, inundate, flood, overthrow, drown, deluge, crush, engulf, astound, overturn. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, amplify, capitulate, incite, install, lose, protect, submit paid: (adj, v) compensated; (adj) salaried, paying, nonrecreational, profitable, remunerated, remunerative, mercenary, settled, prepaid, apaid. ANTONYMS: (adj) owing, due, unprofitable; (adv) voluntary pain: (n, v) hurt, afflict, ache, bother, torment, trouble, grieve, anguish; (n) ill, agony, nuisance. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, cheer; (n) joy, peace, content, balm, ecstasy pair: (n, v) match; (adj, n) brace; (n) duet, duo, dyad; (v) join, mate, link, copulate, equate, marry palace: (n) castle, mansion, hall, alcazar, chateau, palazzo, house, palaces, regime, fortress, serai paltry: (adj, n) mean; (adj) contemptible, measly, trifling, abject, insignificant, inconsiderable, puny, little, trivial, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, substantial, plentiful, enormous, important, profound pants: (n) knickers, trousers, drawers, knickerbockers, underpants, chinos, cords, denim, bloomers, flannel, knee pants paradise: (n) Elysium, bliss, Eden, Zion, promised land, Garden of Eden, Elysian Fields, ecstasy, nirvana, Valhalla, utopia. ANTONYM: (n) misery paragon: (n) exemplar, ideal, model, perfection, paradigm, pattern, jimdandy, idol; (adj, n) beau ideal; (adj) phenix, pink paramour: (n) love, courtesan, doxy, mistress, lover, beau, sweetheart, favorite, odalisque; (adj) gallant, leman pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive, acquit, spare; (n) amnesty, forgiveness, grace; (adj, v) justify, exonerate, exculpate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) blame; (v) punish, castigate, condemn, convict; (n) intolerance parentage: (n) family, extraction,
origin, descent, ancestry, lineage, stock, birth, pedigree, kinship, bloodline paris: (n) genus Paris, French capital, City of Light, capital of France parish: (n) community, congregation, county, region, province, township, borough, church, grazing land, area, arrondissement parson: (n) cleric, clergyman, rector, pastor, curate, preacher, ecclesiastic, divine, priest, vicar, father part: (adj, n) constituent; (n) piece, article, section; (v) break, disjoin, divide, divorce; (n, v) branch, division, character. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite, meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly pass: (adj, n, v) run; (v) flow, give, deliver, lead, happen, overtake, proceed; (adj, v) move; (n, v) offer, live. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, make, take, veto; (n) failing, rejection, exclusion passage: (n, v) course, journey; (n) gangway, corridor, hall, channel, entry, way, entrance, lobby, duct. ANTONYMS: (n) rejection, room passing: (adj) transient, ephemeral, momentary, cursory, brief; (n) overtaking, departure, expiration, decease, passage, death. ANTONYMS: (adj) lasting, thorough, intended, lengthy, long; (n) birth, failing past: (n) history, yesterday; (adj, adv, prep) beyond; (adj) former, bygone, old, prior, over, gone by; (adv) before; (adv, pref) along. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) future, present; (prep) within; (adj) current, contemporary, modern, upcoming, following, subsequent, later; (n) prospect pastime: (n) game, avocation, entertainment, recreation, hobby, distraction, interest, fun, pursuit, amusement, sideline pater: (n) dad, pa, daddy, pappa, papa, Dada, sire, begetter, pop, male parent, Dadaism path: (n, v) course, passage, line; (n) way, direction, highway, orbit, track, lane, means, walk. ANTONYM: (n) room patience: (n) endurance, fortitude, longanimity, equanimity, tolerance, resignation, restraint, composure, sufferance; (n, v) moderation, calmness. ANTONYMS: (n) impatience, eagerness, intolerance, annoyance
Christopher Marlowe payment: (n) compensation, charge, cost, defrayal, bonus, recompense, remuneration, expense, installment, deposit, outlay. ANTONYMS: (n) default, penalty, addition peerless: (adj) matchless, nonpareil, unique, unmatched, unrivaled, one and only, inimitable, supreme, superlative, unequaled, unmatchable. ANTONYM: (adj) vulnerable penance: (n) atonement, sacrament, confession, compunction, penalty, expiation, remorse, repentance, punishment, reparation, hair shirt penny: (n) change, coin, centime, copper, groat, subunit, money, mite, doit, small change, denomination pension: (n) allowance, payment, stipend, boarding house, emolument, endowment, guesthouse, lodging, retirement pension, retirement; (v) retire perfecter: (adj) perfectible, immaculate perform: (v) execute, fulfill, accomplish, do, achieve, complete, carry out, behave, make, play, appear. ANTONYMS: (v) omit, rehearse, malfunction, stop perfumed: (adj) fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, scented, sweet, honeyed, mellifluous, angelic, angelical, fresh, gratifying. ANTONYM: (adj) odorless perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass, ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) survive, live, appear perpetual: (adj) incessant, continual, constant, endless, eternal, everlasting, lasting, ceaseless, immortal, continuous, perennial. ANTONYMS: (adj) temporary, intermittent, transitory, mortal, unstable, finite, inconstant, occasional, sporadic peruse: (v) examine, look through, inspect, study, leaf, flip, flick, learn, review, to read, browse. ANTONYM: (v) skim peter: (n) Dick, prick, pecker, calamus, bill, beam of light, beam, beak, barb, asshole, bastard petty: (adj) insignificant, trivial, little, frivolous, paltry, puny, negligible, light, mean, minute, exiguous. ANTONYMS: (adj) important, serious, generous, profound, significant, expansive, crucial, considerable, broadminded, enormous
phlegmatic: (adj) indifferent, listless, stolid, unconcerned, phlegmatical, lethargic, passive, inert, nonchalant, cold, careless. ANTONYM: (adj) demonstrative physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, remedy; (v) heal physician: (n) doctor, medico, doc, medic, quack, surgeon, leech, houseman, MD, allergist, intern piece: (n) fragment, division, part, article, lump, hunk, composition, component, opus; (n, v) patch, portion. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, chunk; (v) disassemble pieces: (n) debris, trash pitchy: (adj) tarry, dusky, dark, fuliginous, jet, murky, obscure, pitch dark, inky, black, achromatic pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n) mercy, commiseration, condolence, sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v) sympathize, compassionate, feel sorry for. ANTONYMS: (n) blame, cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy place: (n, v) post, order; (v) fix, lay, arrange, locate, install; (adj, n, v) rank, station; (n) domicile, office. ANTONYMS: (v) remove, divest, lift, dismantle places: (n) chairs, seating, spaces plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict, hassle, annoy, badger, pester, disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj, n, v) bother. ANTONYM: (v) comfort plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, intelligible, apparent, manifest, obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate, unclear, multicolored, mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned plants: (n) flora, vegetation, trees, industrial equipment, afforestation, animals, birds, flora and fauna, foliage, natural world, plantation pleasant: (adj) jolly, amiable, agreeable, acceptable, nice, charming, kindly, facetious, joyful, pretty; (adj, v) pleasing. ANTONYMS: (adj) disgusting, horrible, repugnant, nasty, gruesome, unwelcome, harsh, shocking, disagreeable, foul, terrible please: (v) delight, charm, amuse, entertain, oblige, enchant, enrapture; (adj, v) gratify, enjoy, like; (adj) glad. ANTONYMS: (v) displease, annoy,
95 irritate, anger, distress, sicken, disappoint, dissatisfy, sadden, repel, appall pleased: (adj) contented, glad, delighted, content, joyful, thankful, gratified, appreciative, overjoyed, cheerful; (adj, v) elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, annoyed, angry, worried, ashamed, disappointed, frustrated, sad, unsatisfied, ungrateful, uncomplimentary pleasing: (adj, n) acceptable; (adj) amiable, lovable, amusing, attractive, gratifying, lovely, pleasant, charming, delightful, inviting. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, unwelcome, infuriating, disappointing, straight, hurtful, maddening, displeasing, discordant, harsh, frustrating pleasure: (n) fun, enjoyment, delectation, joy, comfort, happiness, mirth, inclination; (n, v) contentment, content; (adj, n, v) gratification. ANTONYMS: (n) irritation, nuisance, boredom, ache, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, pain, sadness, worry, anguish pledge: (n, v) bond, gage, wager, engage, promise, plight, guarantee, bet, contract; (n) assurance; (v) covenant. ANTONYM: (v) redeem pliant: (adj, v) pliable, limber; (adj) elastic, plastic, ductile, malleable, adaptable, compliant, flexile, supple, lithe. ANTONYMS: (adj) inflexible, rigid, rebellious plod: (v) tramp, trudge, toil, slog, drudge, labor, pad, grind, footslog; (n, v) clump, march plot: (n, v) plan, intrigue, cabal, plat, scheme, design, chart; (n) lot, patch, graph; (v) conspire plumed: (adj) plumate, crested, emplumed, plumy, plumose, decorated, flying, feathery pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, ostentation, show, ceremony, glory, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n) understatement, modesty pond: (n) lake, mere, pool, plash, loch, fishpond, sea, tank, reservoir, millpond, broad ponder: (v) meditate, consider, cogitate, deliberate, think, reflect, conceive, mull, mull over; (n, v) muse, study. ANTONYMS: (v) decide, wander, ignore poor: (adj) bad, miserable, piteous, destitute, pitiful, insufficient,
96 penniless, pathetic; (adj, v) meager; (adj, n) paltry, mean. ANTONYMS: (adj) wealthy, excellent, privileged, admirable, good, adequate, satisfactory, outstanding, favorable, dignified, comfortable pope: (n) Holy Father, priest, Vicar of Christ, cardinal, high priest, ruffe, papa, Gregory; (adj) church, gospel, Gregorian possess: (adj, v) own; (v) hold, wield, occupy, bear, keep, enjoy, contain, retain, to have, maintain. ANTONYMS: (v) lack, remove possession: (n) occupation, ownership, keeping, goods, substance, tenure, property, grasp, estate, domain; (n, v) acquisition. ANTONYMS: (n) vacancy, sale potentate: (n) king, dictator, sovereign, autocrat, ruler, emperor, despot, lord, crown, prince, tyrant pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter, stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem, infuse; (n, v) overflow. ANTONYMS: (v) drizzle, trickle poverty: (n, v) lack, destitution, penury, need, indigence, want; (adj, n) distress; (n) pauperism, impoverishment, squalor, deprivation. ANTONYMS: (n) wealth, riches, affluence, smartness, luxury, prosperity, fertility, surplus power: (n, v) might, ability, influence, dominion, faculty; (n) potency, energy, control, authority, domination, strength. ANTONYMS: (n) powerlessness, helplessness, weakness, inability, subjugation, moderation, calmness, meekness, inferiority, feebleness, ease practice: (n, v) exercise, drill, discipline, use; (n) fashion, convention, habitude, habit, experience, form, observance. ANTONYMS: (n) theory, innovation; (v) perform praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, compliment, honor, glory, acclaim; (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, disparagement; (v) reprimand, disparage, reproach, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, denigrate, sully pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, invite, plead, beseech, appeal, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject prayer: (n) invocation, plea, entreaty, appeal, orison, request, suit, litany, devotion, supplication, asking
Dr. Faustus precious: (adj, n) beloved; (adj) valuable, costly, cherished, invaluable, expensive, golden, choice, inestimable, exquisite; (n) darling. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap, hated, shabby precisian: (adj) puritan, Methodist, pietist, disciplinarian, vulture, religionist, tyrant; (n) pedant, stickler, bashaw, despot prejudiced: (adj) biased, partisan, bigoted, jaundiced, interested, opinionated, narrow, intolerant, colored, inequitable, subjective. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbiased, broadminded, balanced, impartial, unprejudiced, objective, just, tolerant prepare: (n, v) arrange, form, plan, make; (v) dress, set, lay, devise, groom, equip; (adj, v) coach. ANTONYM: (v) perform presence: (n) front, manner, mien, bearing, carriage, figure, air, comportment, demeanor, company; (n, v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n) absence, nonattendance present: (adj, n, v) gift, grant; (n, v) donation, display; (adj, v) confer, bestow; (v) introduce, give, prefer, offer, perform. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, withhold, consume, take; (adj) missing, lost, dated, historical; (adj, n) past, future; (n) history presently: (adv) instantly, directly, currently, before long, shortly, soon, now, at present, readily, just, actually. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, now, formerly preserve: (v) maintain, keep, save, guard, hold, defend, uphold, keep up; (n) jam, jelly, conserves. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, discontinue, damage, lose, attack, endanger, use, end presumption: (n) effrontery, confidence, assurance, premise, arrogance, guess, conjecture, surmise, insolence, impertinence, belief. ANTONYM: (n) respect pretty: (adj) fair, graceful, lovely, handsome, attractive, charming, good-looking, picturesque, dainty; (n) nice; (adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adj) plain, unattractive, modern, inelegant; (adv) extremely pride: (n) arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, lordliness, assumption, insolence, disdain, hauteur; (n, v) boast; (v) plume. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace, shame, baseness
prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign, duke, king, chief, maharaja, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke princely: (adj, v) August, grand, great, lordly, dignified, stately; (adj) generous, munificent, majestic, magnificent, gorgeous. ANTONYM: (adj) ungenerous principles: (n) principle, cause, morals, conscience, law, philosophy, dogma, doctrine, honor, ideas, knowledge prithee: (v) pray; (int) prythee private: (adj) clandestine, personal, secret, individual, hidden, inner, exclusive, intimate, esoteric; (adj, v) covert, close. ANTONYMS: (adj) official, nationalized, community, communal, shared, civic, state, open, external, commercial, collective problems: (n) trouble, difficulties, difficulty, troubles, effort, struggle, sweat, nuisance, ills, harms, exertion profession: (n) employment, declaration, occupation, affirmation, calling, career, vocation, job, position, assertion, assurance. ANTONYM: (n) denial proficient: (adj, n) expert, professional; (adj) able, accomplished, practiced, good, adroit, capable, skillful, competent, deft. ANTONYMS: (adj) inept, amateur, untrained, inexperienced, bad profit: (n, v) gain, produce, net, increase, help; (adj, n, v) benefit, advantage; (n) account, earnings, lucre; (adj, n) good. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, detriment, insignificance profits: (n, v) income, proceeds; (n) earnings, profit, lucre, margin, win, accumulation, net, dividend, markup. ANTONYM: (n) losings progeny: (n) posterity, child, children, family, lineage, successor, seed; (n, v) issue, breed, brood, generation prone: (adj) liable, apt, inclined, disposed, subject, flat, predisposed, likely, prostrate, procumbent, susceptible. ANTONYMS: (adj) upright, immune, resistant, unwilling, impervious, disinclined proof: (n) confirmation, probation, authentication, sign, substantiation, evidence, verification, validation, argument, experiment, indication. ANTONYM: (n) contradiction proper: (adj) due, decent, modest, agreeable, fitting, legitimate, right;
Christopher Marlowe (adj, v) correct, fit, becoming; (adj, n) just. ANTONYMS: (adj) inappropriate, wrong, unseemly, rude, unconventional, unsuitable, false, relaxed, vulgar, unreasonable, undue propitious: (adj) fortunate, lucky, good, benign, happy, opportune; (adj, v) auspicious; (adj, n, v) friendly; (adj, n) promising, advantageous, kind. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, inopportune, hopeless proud: (adj) lofty, disdainful, haughty, exalted, egotistical, gallant, pompous, lordly, majestic, overbearing; (adj, v) dignified. ANTONYMS: (adj) humble, modest, ashamed, embarrassed, sorrowful, disappointed, miserable prove: (v) attest, manifest, evidence, establish, show, examine, verify, essay, check, corroborate; (adj, v) confirm. ANTONYMS: (v) refute, undermine prowess: (n) bravery, valor, art, heroism, proficiency, mastery, expertise, gallantry, intrepidity, chivalry, skill. ANTONYMS: (n) inability, ineptitude psalter: (n) Book of Psalms, sauter public: (n) folk, people, populace; (adj) national, overt, civic, communal, popular; (adj, v) general, open; (adj, n) community. ANTONYMS: (adj) private, confidential, personal, individual, privileged, restricted, unknown, home, secret published: (adj) known, promulgated, public, divulgate pull: (n, v) draw, drag, pluck, tug, wrench, jerk; (v) draught, haul, attract, pick; (n) attraction. ANTONYMS: (v) repel, shove, leave; (n) repulsion, repulsiveness purchase: (v) obtain, get, procure, bribe; (n) acquisition, leverage, bargain, acquirement, grip, buying; (n, v) contract. ANTONYMS: (v) sell, lose; (n) loss, sale purgation: (n) purification, abreaction, katharsis, lustration, cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, clearing, purging, purge, colonic purgatory: (n) limbo, abyss, purgation, hell, situation, imaginary place, living death, punishment, Gehenna, grief purse: (n) bag, pouch, money, handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook, pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease
quality: (adj, n) character, faculty; (n) class, characteristic, condition, grade, feature, distinction, description, mark, peculiarity. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap; (n) drawback, inferiority, mediocrity quarto: (n) folio, size, quart, book, octavo quasi: (adv) nearly, almost, partly, practically, just as; (adj) mock, ostensible, similar, pseudo; (n) semi queen: (n) king, lady, sovereign, monarch, dame, pansy, queer, faggot, princess, fairy, czarina question: (n, v) query, distrust, interrogate, matter, challenge, demand; (n) inquiry; (v) investigate, inquire, contest, examine. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, resolution; (n, v) trust; (v) praise, reply, believe, accept quick: (adj) bright, hasty, agile, nimble, intelligent, clever, speedy, active, immediate, instant; (adj, v) prompt. ANTONYMS: (adj) leisurely, dull, dim, thick, unintelligent, thorough, inept, unobservant, lengthy, long, permanent quickly: (adv) promptly, rapidly, expeditiously, readily, speedily, swiftly, suddenly, hastily; (adj, adv) immediately, shortly; (adv, n) instantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, gradually, permanently, later, eventually, thoroughly quiddity: (n) quibble, marrow, essence, pith, heart, gist, backbone, crank, conceit; (adj, n) quintessence; (adj) incarnation quiet: (adj, adv, v) still; (adj, n, v) lull, hush, pacify, compose, appease, assuage; (adj, v) moderate, cool; (adj, adv) gentle, motionless. ANTONYMS: (adj) noisy, talkative, vociferous, active, oratorical, fierce, vocal, unquiet, busy, disordered; (n) noise quod: (n) bilboes, Bastille, prison, stocks quoth: (v) quod rack: (n, v) torment, wrack, Scud; (n) manger, grid, cage, bracket, stand; (v) excruciate, afflict, agonize raise: (n, v) lift, boost, increase; (v) erect, hoist, grow, enhance, build, elevate, promote, foster. ANTONYMS: (n, v) downgrade; (v) lessen, demote, decrease, level, reduce, dismantle, knock; (n) lowering, reduction, descent ransom: (v) redeem, repair, extricate;
97 (n, v) rescue, blackmail, repurchase; (n) deliverance, ransom money, assessment, benevolence, excise rape: (n, v) assault, outrage, plunder, pillage, rapine; (adj, n) violation; (n) colza; (v) ravish, foray, despoil; (adj, v) abuse rare: (adj) uncommon, thin, unusual, seldom, scarce, precious, exceptional, infrequent, few, choice, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) common, frequent, usual, plentiful, commonplace, recurrent ravishing: (adj, n) rapturous, ecstatic; (adj) beautiful, gorgeous, charming, fascinating, enchanting, delightful, stunning, irresistible, heavenly raze: (v) dismantle, destroy, demolish, devastate, expunge, level, rase, overthrow, erase, bulldoze, flatten. ANTONYM: (v) raise read: (v) say, decipher, understand, learn, construe, perceive, gather, indicate, demonstrate, translate, comprehend. ANTONYM: (v) write ready: (v) prepare, fix; (adj, v) fit, disposed, willing; (adj) quick, prompt, nimble, apt; (adj, n) available, dexterous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwilling, reluctant, unavailable, unready, unripe, difficult, unenthusiastic, young realm: (n) area, domain, field, country, region, nation, department, arena, land, empire, ground reason: (n) account, intellect, occasion, object, understanding, argument, purpose; (n, v) cause; (v) argue, debate; (adj, n) rationality. ANTONYMS: (n) inconsistency, disincentive receive: (v) get, admit, assume, have, welcome, bear, obtain, adopt, make, greet, embrace. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, disburse, lose, mail, present, spend, dispatch reclaim: (v) recover, reform, cultivate, claim, repossess, claim back, regain, recycle, salvage, correct, redeem. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, discard rector: (n) minister, pastor, president, manager, principal, governor, clergyman, curate, parson, director, priest reflecting: (adv) reflectingly; (adj) reflective, thoughtful, calculating, reflected, shiny, shimmering, reflectent; (n) mirroring, reflection, reflexion regard: (n, v) respect, esteem, attention, heed, concern, note; (adj, n, v) notice; (v) estimate, believe;
98 (adj, v) attend; (n) deference. ANTONYMS: (n) neglect, disesteem, inattentiveness, disdain, detachment, infamy; (v) ignore, scorn, disregard regent: (n) trustee, experrection, protector, viceregent, vizier, vicar, superintendent, curator, governor, viceroy; (adj) regnant reign: (v) govern, command, predominate, dominate, prevail; (n) dominance, dominion, control, government, administration, kingdom release: (adj, v) disengage, exempt, free, liberate, deliver; (n, v) pardon; (v) absolve, acquit, exonerate, dismiss; (n) liberation. ANTONYMS: (n, v) capture; (v) imprison, confine, arrest, catch, hold; (n) imprisonment, abduction, involvement, preservation, custody remain: (n, v) abide, endure, continue, last; (v) bide, linger, stay, keep, persist, live, hold. ANTONYMS: (v) leave, depart, change, move, go, become, stop remember: (v) commemorate, recognize, recollect, recall, consider, memorize, think, mind, call to mind, retain, bear in mind. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, neglect, overlook rend: (v) pull, lacerate, break, divide, rive, tear, disrupt, mangle; (n, v) rip, split, slash renounce: (v) abandon, abdicate, abjure, relinquish, desert, reject, give up, disown, deny, quit, forgo. ANTONYMS: (v) acknowledge, reassert, assert, continue, retain, persist renown: (n, v) fame; (n) glory, distinction, eminence, notoriety, kudos, name, popularity, prestige, prominence, honor. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, commonness; (adj) anonymity repent: (v) deplore, bewail, rue, mourn, lament, atone, sorry, bemoan, feel remorse, grieve, be sorry repentant: (adj) contrite, remorseful, regretful, sorry, apologetic, ashamed, compunctious, penitential, rueful, humble, doing penance. ANTONYMS: (adj) impenitent, unremorseful, glad report: (n, v) account, gossip, name, record; (n) description, notice, recital, story, notification; (v) describe, recount reported: (adj) narrative, reputed
Dr. Faustus repulse: (n, v) rebuff, defeat; (v) repel, nauseate, disgust, drive back, revolt, reject, refuse, beat back; (n) refusal. ANTONYMS: (v) attract, accept, delight, yield, please; (n, v) welcome request: (n, v) demand, bid, invite, wish, appeal; (v) ask, order, pray, call for; (n) prayer, application. ANTONYMS: (v) command, grant, insist, force, supply, reject; (n) ruling, response requests: (n) desires, requirements, needs, wants rescue: (n, v) release, ransom, salvage; (n) deliverance, delivery, relieve; (v) extricate, recover, free, save, redeem. ANTONYMS: (n) involvement, loss, abandonment, downfall; (n, v) capture; (v) endanger, lose, aggravate resemble: (v) seem, imitate, compare, correspond, to resemble, agree, look, simulate; (adj) look like; (n) resemblance; (adv) alike resolute: (adj, n) constant, firm, fixed, steady; (adj, v) determined; (adj) inflexible, brave, adamant, dogged, unbending, courageous. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, uncertain, uncommitted, timid, fickle, feeble, indecisive, flexible, flippant, hesitant, undecided resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine, solve, decide, dissolve, decompose, settle; (n) determination, firmness, decision, resolution. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, irresoluteness, vacillation, cowardice, flexibility, indecisiveness, indifference; (v) aggravate, complicate, exacerbate, waver rest: (adj, n) remnant, remainder, residue; (n, v) pause, balance, nap, relaxation, sleep; (n) recess, leisure; (v) remain. ANTONYMS: (n) activity, agitation, intensification; (v) change, stand, deteriorate restless: (adj) fidgety, uneasy, impatient, restive, agitated, fretful, turbulent, feverish; (adj, n) nervous, apprehensive; (adj, v) unquiet. ANTONYMS: (adj) relaxed, peaceful, lethargic, unbroken, still, contented return: (v) recur, reimburse, restore; (n, v) pay, restitution, recompense, refund, restoration, render, retort; (n) proceeds. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, confiscation, abolition, recovery, loss, disappearance, penalty; (v) keep, depart, take,
remove reward: (n, v) recompense, return, compensation, guerdon, wage, meed, prize, bribe; (v) repay, requite; (n) payment. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, sentence; (v) dishonor, penalize rhine: (n) Joseph Banks Rhine, Rhein rich: (adj, n) copious, luxurious; (adj) productive, fruitful, full, deep, prolific, opulent, fat, affluent; (adj, v) fertile. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, impoverished, destitute, broke, light, plain, lean, delicate, infertile, weak, barren riches: (n, v) money; (n) affluence, abundance, fortune, opulence, plenty, prosperity, exuberance, treasure, resources; (v) gold ride: (n, v) outing; (adj, v) bestride; (n) run, lift, jaunt; (v) mount, bait, float, rag, tease, harass ring: (n, v) encircle, peal, call, loop, jingle; (v) resound, echo, reverberate; (n) gang, band, rim ripe: (adj) adult, ready, advanced, prepared, good, grown, perfect, matured, finished, consummate; (adj, v) mellow. ANTONYMS: (adj) green, unripe, immature, dry, poisonous, young, unsuitable, sweet rise: (n, v) mount, lift, increase, heave, swell, jump; (v) ascend, arise; (n) elevation, ascent, progress. ANTONYMS: (n, v) decrease, drop; (v) sink, descend, plummet, retire, set; (n) reduction, descent, depreciation, ruin river: (n, v) brook, stream; (n) flow, waterway, current, watercourse, Amazon; (v) burn, beck, bayou; (adj) water roaring: (n) bellowing, roar, bellow, thunder; (adj) booming, prosperous, thriving, flourishing, deafening, noisy, boisterous roasted: (adj) fried, baked robin: (n) robin redbreast, robinruddock , robin-redbreast, American robin, thrush, old world robin rock: (adj, n) stone; (n) boulder, calculus, cliff; (n, v) sway, jar; (v) waver, toss, jolt, shake, cradle rome: (n) Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italy room: (n) chamber, occasion, house, apartment, opportunity, hall, opening, compartment, expanse, extent; (v) board. ANTONYM: (n) walkway round: (n) bout, circuit, beat; (n, v) ring, compass; (adv, prep) about;
Christopher Marlowe (adj) circular, entire; (adj, v) plump; (adj, n, v) turn; (v) gird. ANTONYMS: (adj) sharp, slender, thin, square, harsh, reedy, evasive; (prep) exactly royal: (adj, adv) regal, majestic; (adj) imperial, magnificent, kingly, noble, brilliant, sovereign, purple, August, princely rubbed: (adj) polished, refined, terse, attrite, marked, accomplished, fretten ruin: (n) devastation, desolation; (adj, n) downfall; (v) break, consume, demolish, destroy; (n, v) doom, ravage, destruction, damage. ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, enhance, save, restore, improve; (n, v) respect; (n) making, success, triumph, rise, preservation ruled: (adj) lined, lawful, subordinate, subject runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness, Montezuma's revenge safe: (adj) reliable, cautious, good, dependable, sound, harmless, innocuous, correct, innocent, inoffensive; (n) closet. ANTONYMS: (adj) dangerous, risky, unprotected, vulnerable, hurt, insecure, harmful, reckless, unreliable, toxic, injured safety: (n) guard, security, refuge, safe, bingle, base hit, sanctuary, asylum, preservation, cover, shelter. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, hazard, instability sage: (adj) sagacious, discerning, intelligent, prudent, judicious, learned, profound, knowing; (adj, v) grave; (n) philosopher, scholar saint: (v) canonize; (n) holy man, evangelist, apostle, jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack, holy person, ideal, apotheosis; (adj) sacred sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive, ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n) object, account, design, purpose, saki salvation: (n) redemption, rescue, delivery, preservation, savior, deliverance, liberation, expiation, propitiation; (adj, n) justification; (adj) conversion. ANTONYMS: (n) damnation, destruction same: (adj) identical, equal, like, corresponding, equivalent, similar, uniform, even, consistent, matching; (adv) equally. ANTONYMS: (adj) different, varying, another, unlike, other, varied satisfy: (v) please, persuade, meet, satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj,
v) content, fill, suffice, do. ANTONYMS: (v) intensify, displease, disappoint, disgruntle, frustrate sauce: (n) gravy, condiment, impudence, seasoning, garnish, impertinence, mole, bechamel, salad, billingsgate, aioli save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, maintain, preserve, free, protect, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) except; (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander, use, abandon, endanger, capture, asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy saved: (adj) protected, economized, rescued, blessed saviour: (n) deliverer, rescuer, savior, redeemer, Christ, saver, liberator, recoverer, messianic, Jesus Christ, Jesus scale: (adj) balance; (v) mount, climb, ascend; (n) gamut, yardstick, graduation, degree; (n, v) flake, gauge, measure scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient, infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, common, adequate, strong, usual, extensive scent: (n, v) fragrance, smell, odor, essence, nose; (n) aroma, bouquet, redolence, odour; (adj, n) savor, flavor. ANTONYMS: (n) stench, stink scholar: (n) learner, academic, student, pundit, apprentice, intellectual, brain, exhibitioner, academician, professor, disciple. ANTONYM: (n) teacher scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride, slight; (n) contempt, derision, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value, approve, admire, accept; (n) admiration, commendation, humility scour: (v) scrub, ransack, burnish, abrade, furbish, polish, search, cleanse, graze, buff; (adj, v) flush. ANTONYM: (v) dirty scriptures: (n) scripture, Holy Bible search: (v) grope, rummage, ransack, pry; (n) pursuit, exploration, examination, inquiry, inspection; (n, v) inquire, research seat: (n) bench, base, behind, bottom, buttocks, location, position, post, posterior; (v) locate, put second: (n) instant, jiffy, flash,
99 minute, sec; (v) back, endorse, help; (n, v) support; (adj) latter, further. ANTONYMS: (adj) top, former; (n) age secondly: (adv) secondarily, second, latterly, subordinately, duplicately, inferiorly, forwardly, additionally, furtherly, in the second place, subsequently secrets: (n) secrecy security: (n, v) pledge, bond; (n) protection, hostage, insurance, strength, guard, secureness, collateral; (adj, n) safety, peace. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, insecurity, unreliability, vulnerability, discomfort, fear, attack seeing: (prep) because; (adj) Seely, considering; (n) sight, vision, beholding, fusion, visual sense; (v) conceive, comprehend, perceive seek: (n, v) ask, inquire; (v) hunt, endeavor, attempt, look, aspire, pursue, beg, quest, explore. ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant seeking: (n) hunt, pursuit, hunting, effort, pursuance; (adj) searching, zetetic; (prep) looking for seen: (adj) visible, clad, beseen, accomplished, discovered, appearing; (v) observe, perceive, conceive, comprehend, understand self: (n) ego, person, me, individual, being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; (adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally sell: (v) deal, handle, dispose, betray, give, promote, realize, merchandise, dispose of; (n, v) cheat; (adj) sold. ANTONYMS: (v) buy, wholesale send: (v) pass, deliver, forward, convey, dispatch, mail, post, give, carry, divert, project. ANTONYM: (v) keep senses: (adj) sober senses, sound mind; (n) reason, mind, conception, consciousness, judgment, faculties, mother wit, right mind, sanity sent: (adj) dispatched, imported, ecstatic, blissful, fascinated, intoxicated; (v) transmit. ANTONYM: (adj) unsent serpent: (n) snake, ophidian, viper, snake in the grass, reptile, rattlesnake, colubrid, contrafagotto, cor anglais, hautboy; (v) goose servant: (n) manservant, domestic, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey, retainer, boy, footman, flunky, menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master, mistress serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate,
100 function, do; (n, v) officiate service: (n, v) overhaul, serve, refit, assist; (n) aid, employment, assistance, avail, ministration, ceremony; (v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n) disservice, damage, hindrance, uselessness serviceable: (adj) practical, helpful, handy, profitable, beneficial, effective, useful, convenient, efficient, operative, practicable. ANTONYMS: (adj) impractical, unusable, unserviceable, useless, flimsy, worthless servile: (adj) abject, obsequious, base, fawning, ignoble, sordid, subservient, cringing, slavish; (adj, n) mean, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) bossy, assertive sessions: (n) Roger sessions, Roger Huntington sessions seven: (adj, n) VII; (n) September, septet, week, nine, knave, king, jack, queen, digit, Sevener seventh: (n) common fraction, interval several: (adj, v) diverse, divers, sundry; (adj, n) a few, some; (adj) various, individual, different, particular, special, numerous. ANTONYMS: (adj) joint, all, none shadow: (n) ghost, darkness, apparition, follower, gloom, reflection; (n, v) eclipse, trace, tail, hint; (v) follow. ANTONYMS: (v) brighten, lead; (n) brightness, pallor shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, bequeath, leave shape: (n, v) cast, mold, fashion, mould, model, make, design; (n) pattern, figure; (v) determine, influence shew: (v) demonstrate, prove, show, contradict, establish, substantiate, support, sustain, indicate, exhibit, display. ANTONYM: (v) disprove shine: (n, v) light, sheen, flash, glitter, sparkle, polish, rub; (v) burnish, gleam, blaze; (n) radiance shining: (adj, v) brilliant; (adj) lustrous, radiant, glossy, luminous, glorious, glowing; (adj, n) lucid, resplendent, clear; (v) shine. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, pale, blemished shortest: (adj) direct, brusk, brusque, choleric, curt, directer, hotheaded, least, irascible, lowest, most direct shortly: (adv) presently, curtly, before long, soon, concisely, brusquely, abruptly, tersely, succinctly; (adj, adv) immediately,
Dr. Faustus summarily. ANTONYMS: (adv) politely, pleasantly, verbosely, later shoulder: (v) carry, push, hold, jostle, sustain, support, assume, accept; (n, v) elbow; (n) back, flange show: (adj, n, v) present, appearance; (n, v) exhibit, produce, broadcast, indicate, parade; (v) point out; (n) presentation, ostentation; (adj, v) guide. ANTONYMS: (v) disprove, hide, withhold, suppress, disappear, cover, absorb; (n) concealment shun: (v) evade, escape, elude, dodge, flee, refuse, shirk, ostracize, banish, parry; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS: (v) befriend, invite, seek, welcome, woo, court, participate, include sick: (adj) ill, queasy, poorly, ailing, weary, diseased, sickly, morbid; (adj, v) indisposed, unwell; (adj, n) invalid. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, fond, wholesome sickness: (n, v) disease, indisposition, malady, disorder, distemper, ailment; (n) complaint, qualm, nausea, disgust, queasiness side: (n) rim, faction, brink, direction, hand, aspect, margin; (adj, n) part; (n, v) party, border, face. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, central, major, primary; (n) back, front, center, middle; (v) straddle sift: (v) screen, filter, investigate, riddle, sieve, examine, sprinkle, separate, sort; (n, v) scrutinize, analyze sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show, aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, see; (n) view, prospect, scene sign: (n, v) mark, motion, gesture; (n) portent, indication, manifestation, imprint, presage, brand, poster; (v) indicate. ANTONYMS: (n) successor; (v) dismiss signs: (n) situation, indications, signage, appearances, cipher, cryptogram, discriminating marks, indicia, secret code, secret language, symbols silent: (adj, adv) motionless; (adj) dumb, tacit, mute, noiseless, reserved, placid, reticent, mum, taciturn, hush. ANTONYMS: (adj) spoken, talkative, loud, explicit, open, live, forthcoming, verbal, audible, talking, moving silk: (adj) silky, down, silken, velure, velvet; (n) silks, satin, cloth, animal fiber, fabric, dental floss silver: (n) money, gold, bullion, precious Metals; (adj) silvery,
argent, white, silvern, gray, neutral tint; (v) plate simple: (adj, n) plain, humble, innocent, rustic; (adj) homely, elementary, natural; (adj, v) pure, clear, mere, downright. ANTONYMS: (adj) complex, complicated, compound, elaborate, difficult, multiple, obscure, ornate, problematical, sophisticated, confusing since: (adv, conj, prep) because, seeing that; (adv, prep) afterwards, before; (adv, conj) for, as; (adj, adv) ago; (conj) whereas; (prep) from, of; (adv) after sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone, intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch; (n, v) twitter, squeak situation: (n) employment, position, post, job, matter, location, circumstance, circumstances, condition, site, office sixpence: (n) bender, coin, teston, testern sixth: (n) common fraction, interval, musical interval, simple fraction skill: (n) artifice, capacity, capability, knack, ability, faculty, finesse, cleverness, expertise; (adj, n) craft, cunning. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, incompetence, uselessness, stupidity, ineptness, tactlessness, inexperience, ignorance, inaccuracy, delay, drawback slain: (v) slay; (adj) overthrown, mat, fallen, dejected, cast down slave: (n) servant, bondman, thrall, bondsman, bondwoman, captive, vassal; (n, v) labor; (v) drudge, work; (adj, n) inferior. ANTONYMS: (adj) free; (v) slack slaves: (n) helotry, bondsmen slay: (n, v) murder, assassinate; (v) dispatch, execute, slaughter, destroy, massacre, put to death, remove, finish, butcher sleep: (n, v) nap, repose, doze, kip, slumber, catnap; (adj, n, v) lie; (v) hibernate, nod; (n) dream; (adj, v) lodge. ANTONYMS: (v) awaken; (n) alertness, agitation slender: (adj, v) lean, meager; (adj) little, thin, fine, lithe, slight, delicate, lissom, flimsy, faint. ANTONYMS: (adj) stocky, fat, wide, considerable, short, substantial, good, adequate, stout, thick slick: (adj) clever, glib, glossy, silky, adroit, foxy, silken, crafty, cunning, artful; (adj, v) smooth.
Christopher Marlowe ANTONYMS: (adj) dry, rough, unsophisticated, shoddy, hesitant, dull slop: (v) spill, splash, slosh, smudge; (adj, n) filth; (n) pigwash, slops; (n, v) swill; (adj) dabble, dirt, soil sloth: (n) laziness, idleness, indolence, lethargy, lazy, acedia, inactivity, inaction, inertia, listlessness, slothfulness. ANTONYMS: (n) energy, liveliness slow: (adj, v) slack; (adj) dull, sluggish, heavy, stupid, lazy, indolent, inactive; (adj, adv) easy, behind; (adj, n) gradual. ANTONYMS: (adj) intelligent, rapid, bright, speedy, alert, brisk, quick, prompt, hasty, rushed; (v) accelerate small: (adj) little, narrow, slight, minor, inadequate, petty, fine, insignificant, light, remote; (adj, v) low. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) big; (adj) sizeable, colossal, considerable, enormous, great, huge, bulky, major, giant, important smile: (n) grin, grinning, smiling, luck, facial expression; (v) laugh, beam, chuckle, simper; (n, v) grimace; (adv) smilingly. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scowl; (v) glower smoky: (adj) murky, hazy, fumid, vaporous, opaque, muddy, famish, burnt; (v) sooty, smutty, dusty. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, fresh, clear snatched: (adj) hasty, speedy, brief, hurried, quick, rapid, short, sudden, swift. ANTONYM: (adj) slow soldiers: (n) military, troop, force, the military, troops, defense force, military service, militia, soldiery, Territorial Army, armed forces sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) single, singular, one, exclusive, individual, only, alone, solitary. ANTONYM: (adj) common solitary: (adj) forlorn, only, alone, single, lonely, lone, sole, unaccompanied, isolated; (adj, n) recluse; (n) hermit. ANTONYMS: (adj) sociable, combined, common, outgoing something: (n) what, object, thing, article, entity, substance, somebody; (adv, n) somewhat; (adv) rather, a little, kinda. ANTONYM: (pron) nothing sometime: (adv) someday, once, one day, formerly, sooner or later; (adj) quondam, erstwhile, former, old,
late; (adj, adv) sometimes sometimes: (adv) from time to time, occasionally, every now and then, now and again, every so often, once, sometime, once in a while, formerly; (n) at times; (adj, adv) on and off. ANTONYM: (adv) regularly somewhat: (adv) slightly, a little, fairly, a bit, reasonably, pretty, moderately, sort of; (adv, v) little; (adv, pron) partly; (adj, adv) something. ANTONYMS: (adv) considerably, very, unreasonably, totally, hugely, completely, closely, massively, absolutely, wholly sonnet: (n) ode, verse, poem, elegy, canzonet, eclogue, lay, Anacreontic, poesy, quatorzain; (v) poetize soon: (adv) shortly, presently, anon, immediately, directly, at once, before long, betimes, quickly, promptly; (adj, adv) early. ANTONYMS: (adv) now, eventually, later, slowly sooner: (adj, adv) rather, earlier, before, preferably, instead; (adv) first, before now, faster, previously, beforehand; (adj) prior sorry: (adj) pathetic, sorrowful, remorseful, contrite, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, penitent, paltry, base, sad. ANTONYMS: (adj) glad, happy, admirable, unremorseful, fine soul: (n) creature, human, person, personification, ghost, individual, mind, essence, life, self; (adj, n) heart. ANTONYMS: (n) surface, body sound: (n, v) chime, echo, peal; (adj) reasonable, complete, healthy, sensible, sane, rational; (adj, v) fit, fast. ANTONYMS: (adj) illogical, unsound, confused, unreliable, flawed, flimsy, silent, weak, unreasonable; (n) silence; (v) devoice sovereign: (n) ruler, king, lord, emperor; (adj) independent, autonomous, imperial, royal, free, regal; (adj, n) prince. ANTONYMS: (adj) dependent, ineffective, useless spanish: (n) Spanish people, romance language, Castilian spare: (adj, v) free, reserve, save, thin; (adj) slender, slight, additional, lean; (adj, n) extra, excess; (v) exempt. ANTONYMS: (n) shortfall, original; (adj) principal, fat, basic, abundant, stout; (v) need, include speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v) converse, say, deliver, articulate, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n)
101 language speaks: (n) talks spectacle: (n) scene, pageant, display, exhibition, phenomenon, appearance, spectacles, view, wonder; (n, v) sight, parade. ANTONYM: (n) understatement speculation: (n) guess, venture, reflection, meditation, guesswork, gamble, supposition, theory, surmise, adventure, conjecture. ANTONYM: (n) fact spent: (adj, v) prostrate; (adj) fatigued, expended, finished, gone, dead, played out, effete, jaded, tired; (v) spend. ANTONYM: (adj) energetic sphere: (n) region, range, province, domain, realm, area, department, round, ball, circle, globe spirit: (n, v) courage, mind; (n) mood, ghost, apparition, disposition, energy, essence, soul, phantom; (adj, n) animation. ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, body, cowardice, surface, sluggishness, lifelessness, defeatism spirits: (n) alcohol, booze, humor, frame of mind, liqueur, strong drink, hard drink; (adj) cheer, geniality, good humor; (v) wine spit: (v) drizzle, expectorate, sprinkle, spew, drool, spike, spatter; (n) broach, saliva, cape; (n, v) skewer spoils: (n) prize, stolen goods, booty, plunder, haul, swag, pickings, trophy, boodle, prize money, treasure sport: (n, v) play, pastime, jest, diversion, romp, joke, disport, gambol; (n) fun, amusement, recreation. ANTONYMS: (n) work; (v) conceal sporting: (adj) fair, sportsmanlike, clean, gambling, betting, dissipated, athletic, adventurous, sporty; (v) tauromachy; (n) diversion. ANTONYM: (adj) unsporting spread: (n, v) scatter, stretch, increase; (adj, n, v) reach; (v) disperse, expand, propagate, disseminate, diffuse, circulate; (adj, v) extend. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, gather, collect, fold, prevent, regress, shrink, specialize, concentrate; (n) decline; (n, v) decrease stab: (n, v) thrust, impale, jab, pierce, prod, dig, stick, pink; (n) try, prick; (v) spike stag: (v) spy, peach, denounce; (n) buck, dog, boar, cock, deer, roe, doe, reynard
102 stage: (n, v) phase; (n) floor, point, period, level, degree, proscenium, arena, layer; (v) present, order stand: (v) endure, undergo; (n) rack, booth, attitude, base, pedestal; (n, v) live, position; (adj, v) suffer, tolerate. ANTONYMS: (v) sit, lie, yield, forbid; (n) top stands: (n) bleachers, stood, grandstand, standing, stop, covered stand, standpoint, stall, sales booth, reviewing stand, rack stark: (adj) severe, plain, bare, bleak, desolate, mere, simple, bald, positive, pure, barren. ANTONYMS: (adj) disguised, ornate, fuzzy, indistinct, soft, romantic, fussy, hidden, dim, abundant, mild stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate state: (n) nation, position, kingdom, status, country; (n, v) say, show, place; (adj) national; (v) express, expound. ANTONYMS: (adj) private; (n) monarchy; (v) conceal, refute stately: (adj) solemn, imposing, elegant; (adj, v) noble, dignified, grand, proud, great; (adj, adv) regal, majestic, royal. ANTONYMS: (adj) boisterous, humble, modest, lowly stay: (adj, n, v) remain; (n, v) rest, prop, stop, delay, abide, continue, pause, endure, halt, support. ANTONYMS: (v) change, abscond, depart, move, disappear, become, go staying: (n) stays, arrest; (adj) continual, old, left stays: (n) bodice, stay, girdle, panty girdle, stayed, staying, foundation, corselette, sash, slip, corselet stench: (n, v) reek, smell; (n) niff, fetor, odor, malodour, malodor, mephitis, odour, foetor, fetidness steps: (n) step, stairs, staircase, stairway, flight, stepladder, scale, backstairs, companionway, escalator, stair stole: (n) wrap, stolen, scarf, stolon, stealing, robe, alb, tunicle, surplice, alba, cassock stolen: (adj) stealed, stole, stealing, steal, steals, furtive, stealthy, secret, taken, misbegotten, sly stone: (n) jewel, rock, pebble, gem, calculus, gemstone, kernel, concretion; (n, v) pit; (v) lapidate, pelt store: (n, v) stock, hoard, bank, cache, supply; (n) shop, market, business; (v) accumulate, garner, keep. ANTONYMS: (v) spend, delete; (n) dearth
Dr. Faustus stoutly: (adv) sturdily, robustly, strongly, solidly, lustily, vigorously, toughly, resolutely, stockily, portly, obstinately. ANTONYM: (adv) feebly straight: (adj) erect, honest, upright, even, fair, perpendicular, correct; (adj, adv, v) direct; (adj, adv, n) right; (adj, adv) level, flat. ANTONYMS: (adj) diluted, zigzag, winding, curly, curved, curvy, twisted, wavy, knotted, askew; (adv) indirectly strange: (adj) foreign, peculiar, unusual, abnormal, outlandish, irregular, odd, new, mysterious, extraordinary, curious. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, normal, familiar, typical, usual, conventional, explicable, sensible, mainstream, known, human stranger: (n) foreigner, outsider, newcomer, outlander, immigrant, intruder, unknown, tramontane, trespasser; (adj) foreign, strange. ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native, associate, resident, familiar streets: (n) street strength: (n, v) power; (n) energy, firmness, endurance, stability, potency, health, soundness; (adj, n, v) might; (adj, n) vigor, intensity. ANTONYMS: (n) frailty, shortcoming, flaw, faintness, powerlessness, moderation, limitation, instability, impotence, feebleness, disadvantage strengthen: (v) confirm, corroborate, brace, enhance, encourage, invigorate, intensify, fortify, toughen, stiffen, increase. ANTONYMS: (v) undermine, damage, sap, decrease, atrophy, demoralize, dilute, diminish, exhaust, reduce strike: (n, v) hit, beat, bang, knock, assault, slap, clap, rap, smash; (v) impress, move. ANTONYMS: (n) defense; (v) extinguish, defend struck: (adj, v) smitten; (v) stroke; (adj) affected, afflicted, doting, dotty, enamored, gaga, hurt, in love, infatuated student: (n) scholar, learner, disciple, pupil, apprentice, schoolboy, collegian, novice, pundit, savant, trainee. ANTONYM: (n) expert studious: (adj) scholarly, bookish, academic, assiduous, erudite, diligent, learned, careful, deliberate; (adj, v) thoughtful, reflective. ANTONYM: (adj) negligent
study: (n, v) examine, review, survey, research; (v) learn, check, contemplate, ponder, inquire; (n) consideration, learning. ANTONYMS: (n) neglect; (v) skim styx: (n) Avernus, pit of Acheron, Stygian creek, Tartarus, Cocytus, river Styx subject: (n) matter, citizen, motif, question, issue, affair, point, national; (adj, v) exposed; (adj, n) dependent, inferior. ANTONYMS: (n) foreigner, resolution; (adj) impervious substance: (adj, n) subject; (n) body, significance, import, material, matter, meaning, amount, means, gist, core. ANTONYMS: (n) meaninglessness, lightness, surface substantial: (adj) actual, firm, real, strong, palpable, significant, considerable, important, essential, sturdy, momentous. ANTONYMS: (adj) insubstantial, small, fine, worthless, ethereal, marginal, abstract, unimportant, waiflike, intangible, incorporeal succeed: (v) follow, arrive, prosper, prevail, manage, supplant, ensue, supersede, do, achieve, flourish. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, precede, lose, botch, restore, neglect, Miss, deteriorate suck: (v) nurse, drink, imbibe, suckle, absorb, lactate, puff, drain, pull, suck up; (n) sucking. ANTONYM: (v) rock suffice: (v) satisfy, do, answer, content, fulfill, be sufficient, qualify, function, be enough, suit, fulfil sufficient: (adj) adequate, proper, commensurate, competent, good, acceptable, apt, ample, full; (adj, n) enough; (adv) quite. ANTONYMS: (adj) inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, impossible, appalling sufficiently: (adv) fully, satisfactorily, enough, amply, quite, properly, competently, decently, abundantly, goodly, completely. ANTONYM: (adv) inadequately summer: (n) summertime, joist, rafter, beam, scaffold, season, skeleton, corner stone, lintel, transom, girder. ANTONYM: (n) winter sumptuous: (adj) magnificent, luxurious, opulent, splendid, gorgeous, deluxe, costly, lush, lavish, grand, plush. ANTONYMS: (adj) unadorned, humble, ascetic,
Christopher Marlowe meager, scanty, impoverished sundry: (adj) several, different, diverse, assorted, miscellaneous, many, varied, mixed, divers, various; (n) sundries. ANTONYMS: (adj) uniform, homogeneous sunny: (adj) bright, clear, gay, cheerful, merry, blithe, shiny, shining, radiant, brilliant, fair. ANTONYMS: (adj) overcast, dull, shady, unhappy, cloudy, sad, miserable, gloomy, unpleasant supper: (n) meal, tea, lunch, repast, reception, mealtime, siesta, social affair; (v) dejeuner, bever, whet surfeit: (n) overabundance, excess, repletion, satiety, plethora, overflow, congestion; (v) cloy, gorge, satiate, pall. ANTONYMS: (n) shortage, need, necessity, deficit; (v) deplete swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, avow, depone, depose, aver. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute, deny, compliment sweet: (adj) fresh, mellow, lovable, dear, pleasant, musical, melodious, pleasing, sugary; (adj, v) lovely; (adj, n) beloved. ANTONYMS: (adj) discordant, bitter, acid, sharp, acidic, pungent, salty, harsh, detestable, cacophonous, dry swift: (adj, adv, v) fast; (adj) quick, fleet, speedy, alert, nimble, hasty, prompt, sudden, hurried; (adj, v) rapid. ANTONYMS: (adj) considered, leisurely, sluggish, gradual, delayed, clumsy taken: (adj) occupied, full, interpreted, appropriated, seized, overcome, affected, besotted; (v) take, get, receive. ANTONYMS: (adj) given, free talk: (n, v) discourse, gossip, converse, lecture, chatter, chat, address; (v) articulate, speak, prattle; (n) language. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse; (n) silence tall: (adj) elevated, high, exalted, big, lanky, towering, eminent, unbelievable, strapping, long, gangling. ANTONYMS: (adj) low, small, sensible, reasonable, little, believable, easy, stocky taste: (n, v) relish, sample, smack, touch; (n) flavor, liking, penchant, morsel, bit, drop, fondness. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, tastelessness, disinclination, hate, lot, coarseness, uncouthness; (v) abstain, refrain
teach: (v) enlighten, educate, instruct, coach, indoctrinate, drill, learn, lecture, school; (adj, v) guide, show tear: (n, v) rip, break, split, rupture, crack, run, slit; (v) pull, rend, lacerate; (adj, v) rush. ANTONYMS: (v) wait, mend, idle, fix, amble, dawdle tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily function, bodily process, body process, lacerations tell: (n, v) disclose, impart, count; (v) relate, reveal, recount, divulge, explain, communicate; (adj, v) declare, express. ANTONYMS: (v) request, misunderstand, estimate, listen, figure, guess, withhold, conceal, suppress, confuse temple: (n) church, place of worship, shrine, Fane, house of worship, pantheon, pagoda, synagogue, brow, sanctuary, mosque tempt: (adj, v) attract, allure; (v) entice, decoy, charm, inveigle, invite, coax, seduce, fascinate, attempt. ANTONYMS: (v) discourage, appall, repel terrible: (adj) horrible, dreadful, horrid, monstrous, abominable, ghastly, dire, appalling, fearful, awful, hideous. ANTONYMS: (adj) lovely, pleasant, great, laudable, excellent, superb, mild, slight, minor, brilliant, insignificant terror: (n, v) alarm, scare; (adj, n) dread, awe; (n) fear, dismay, consternation, horror, panic, apprehension, scourge. ANTONYMS: (n) peace, security, delight, calm, confidence thank: (v) give thanks, recognize, bless, thanks, give thanks to, convey, acknowledged, remercy, impart thanks: (n) acknowledgment, gratitude, blessing, grace, praise, gratefulness, recognition, credit, benediction, thankfulness; (int) thank you. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, blame thence: (adv) therefore, thus, therefrom, thereof, consequently, then, so, thereafter, thenceforth, since, on account of therefore: (adv) thence, so, hence, accordingly, as a result, thus, for that reason; (conj) since, because, then, ergo thereunto: (adv) thereto thief: (n) burglar, bandit, pirate, plunderer, filcher, stealer,
103 pickpocket, pilferer, crook, brigand, despoiler thing: (n) affair, occurrence, object, event, concern, something, article, happening, substance, occasion, being things: (n) gear, belongings, equipment, garb, garment, clothes, paraphernalia, goods, life, property, palliament thinking: (n) consideration, idea, opinion, reasoning, intellection, cogitation, conception, contemplation; (adj) intelligent, thoughtful, meditative third: (n) second, tierce, three, third part, terzetto, hot corner, third base; (adv) thirdly; (adj) triple, thrid, tertial thirdly: (adv) third, tertiarily, in the third place, thrice thirty: (n) large integer, termination; (adj) thretty thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that point, in that respect, at that place, in that location; (adj) further, ulterior, remoter, succeeding, more distant thorough: (adj) complete, full, profound, exhaustive, absolute, good, comprehensive, detailed, extensive, sweeping, careful. ANTONYMS: (adj) partial, sketchy, careless, slack, imperfect, sloppy, rushed, restricted, inadequate, halfhearted, dense thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage though: (adj, conj) however; (conj) still, notwithstanding, nevertheless, albeit, whereas, while; (adv) even, after all, tho'; (adv, conj) tho thought: (n) idea, impression, conception, belief, concept; (adj, n) opinion, feeling, sentiment; (n, v) consideration, reflection, observation. ANTONYMS: (n) thing, vacuity, vacancy, concrete, thoughtlessness, inattention, impulsiveness, certainty, neglect, trust thoughts: (n) mind, opinion, depth of thought, feelings, reflection, ideas, workings of the mind, view, stance, position, considered opinion thousand: (adj, n) one thousand, k, m; (n) grand, g, thou, cat Valium, constant of gravitation, grounds, curtilage; (adj) a thousand thread: (n) screw thread, yarn, rope, wire, twine, ligature; (adj, n, v) line,
104 file; (n, v) string together; (adj, v) range; (v) penetrate threatened: (adj) vulnerable, in jeopardy, exposed, endangered, doomed, at risk thrice: (adv) three times, thirdly throne: (v) enthrone; (n) can, stool, place, fecal matter, potty, chair, cathedra, lavatory, crapper, pot throw: (n, v) cast, pitch, push; (v) shed, hurl, heave, chuck, flip, pass, hurtle; (n) shot. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, help, receive, clarify, encourage thunder: (adj, n, v) boom; (n, v) roar, bang, roll, bellow; (adj, n) peal; (adj, v) explode, detonate; (v) howl, rumble, fulminate thus: (adv) then, so, consequently, hence, thence, accordingly, as a result, ergo, thusly, for that reason, as tickle: (v) titillate, indulge, thrill, prickle, please, tingle, humor, flatter, vellicate, divert; (n) titillation tidings: (n) intelligence, information, message, report, word, advice, communication, dispute, wind, statement, tiding till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to times: (n) present time, modern times, contemporary world, multiplication, time, period, era, many years duration, epoch, present, arithmetic operation tire: (n, v) bore, jade; (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, harass, fag, weary, wear, pall, prostrate; (n) tyre. ANTONYMS: (v) interest, invigorate, energize tone: (n) note, accent, timbre, spirit, tinge, shade, air, sound, tint, manner; (n, v) color. ANTONYMS: (n) atonicity, flaccidity; (v) jar tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, dialect, clapper, glossa, natural language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) flowing took: (adj) taken; (v) receive topless: (adj) unclothed tormented: (adj) worried, tortured, hagridden, troubled, beleaguered, beset, besieged, cruciate, cruciform, distraught, distressed. ANTONYM: (adj) calm torture: (n, v) pain, distress, agonize, afflict; (n) agony, anguish, suffering, excruciation, grief; (v) rack, excruciate. ANTONYMS: (n) relief, alleviation, content, ecstasy, joy,
Dr. Faustus pleasure; (v) relieve, alleviate touch: (v) hit, affect, border, adjoin, strike, reach; (n, v) contact, stroke, tinge, regard, tap. ANTONYMS: (v) shrink, secrete, separate, diverge, abstain, leave; (n) lot towers: (n) edifice town: (adj) municipal, urban; (n) borough, township, village, burgh, burg, municipality, townspeople, metropolis; (adj, n) community. ANTONYMS: (adj) country, private tragical: (v) ruinous, disastrous, calamitous; (n) sadder; (adj) tragedious, like tragedy, sad traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalist, patriot transform: (v) change, convert, alter, metamorphose, translate, turn, modify, become, transmute, transfigure, process. ANTONYMS: (v) preserve, maintain treasure: (n) gem, fortune, riches, funds; (n, v) hoard, prize, store; (v) cherish, appreciate; (adj, n) jewel, precious stone. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, disparage, scorn, neglect; (n) dud, poverty trees: (n) foliage tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v) quiver, shudder, thrill, palpitate; (adj, v) totter, quake; (n) throb; (v) flutter, quail, falter. ANTONYMS: (v) steady, calm trial: (n) test, examination, experiment, hardship, essay, hearing, audition, attempt; (n, v) affliction, adversity; (adj, n) distress. ANTONYMS: (n) peace, performance, happiness, ease, opportunity; (adj) known, definite, proven trick: (n, v) deceive, cheat, fraud, deceit, joke, sham, con; (n) prank, deception, device; (v) mislead. ANTONYMS: (n) frankness, honesty, misunderstanding, seriousness, truthfulness; (adj) real, genuine, innocent trifle: (n, v) play; (adj, n, v) trinket; (v) dally, fiddle, flirt, fool, frivol; (n) nothing, triviality, detail; (adj, n) bagatelle trifles: (n) jests, nonsense, nugae, trivia triplex: (adj) ternary, treble, threefold, dual, double, soprano; (n) triplex apartment, triplex building triumph: (v) exult, prevail, crow,
rejoice, succeed; (n, v) glory, win, joy; (n) victory, conquest, exultation. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, sorrow, unhappiness, dud, sadness, loss, flop; (v) fail, lose, forfeit troop: (n) group, corps, gang, crowd, band, brigade, crew, herd, swarm, horde; (n, v) flock troy: (n) city, Ilion, ilium, metropolis, system of weights, troy weight true: (adj, n) genuine, authentic; (adj) right, faithful, even, correct, accurate, honest, straight, truthful; (adj, v) actual. ANTONYMS: (adj) inaccurate, untrue, bogus, untrustworthy, unrealistic, mythical, fraudulent, faithless, disloyal; (adv) wrongly, dishonestly truly: (adj, adv) really; (adv) sincerely, in truth, exactly, in fact, indeed, in reality, genuinely, right, certainly, honestly. ANTONYMS: (adv) insincerely, dubiously, doubtfully, apparently, inaccurately, indefinite, dishonestly, mildly, wrongly trust: (n, v) credit, rely, hope; (n) confidence, faith, reliance, belief, cartel, assurance; (v) believe, confide. ANTONYMS: (n, v) distrust, doubt, mistrust; (v) disbelieve, keep, hold, despair; (n) disbelief, suspicion, independence truth: (n) exactness, actuality, sincerity, verity, fidelity, fact, correctness, genuineness, faithfulness, certainty, honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, lie, inaccuracy, idealism, falsity, disloyalty, fallacy, invention turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil, round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout; (v) revolve. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, Miss, stagnation; (v) unbend turned: (adj) off, curved, rancid, twisted, false, bent, altered, sullen, having inflections, versed, glowering. ANTONYM: (adj) unturned tush: (n) buttocks, backside, posterior, quarter, place, poop, John, pot, prat, piece of ass, puke twelve: (adj, n) dozen, XII; (n) boxcars, large integer twenty: (adj) vigesimal; (n) large integer, twenty dollar bill twill: (adj, v) curl, wrinkle; (adj) corded, crisp; (v) braid, plexus, felt, plat, plait, mesh; (n) cloth twinkling: (n) moment, jiffy, minute, second, flash, trice, twinkle, wink,
Christopher Marlowe split second, breath; (adj) sparkling. ANTONYM: (adj) dull ugly: (adj, adv) surly; (adj) nasty, repulsive, frightful, forbidding, disagreeable, hideous, gruesome, evil, offensive, shocking. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, flowing, ornamental, nice, lovely, pleasant, safe, kind, gentle, appealing, agreeable under: (adj) lower, down, nether, bottom, inferior, low, subject; (adv, prep) beneath, underneath; (adv) downstairs, infra. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over, above; (adv) primary, higher, major underprop: (v) support, prop undo: (v) loosen, open, annul, cancel, separate, disentangle, untie, unfold, reverse, disconnect, nullify. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, close, do, wrap, tangle, validate, knot, lock, permit, unite, approve undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand, decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v) accursed, to be pitied, devoted unfeigned: (adj) sincere, true, genuine, honest, unaffected, heartfelt, truthful, frank, hearty, straight, natural universal: (adj) general, global, ecumenical, international, common, worldwide, public, ubiquitous, comprehensive, widespread, oecumenical. ANTONYMS: (adj) local, specific, idiosyncratic, confined, isolated, narrow, rare unjust: (adj) partial, injurious, wrong, inequitable, unrighteous, wicked, foul, wrongful, improper, unmerited, unjustified. ANTONYMS: (adj) just, equitable, rightful, reasonable, good unlawful: (adj) illegal, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, wrongful, prohibited, improper, unauthorized, criminal, outlaw, irregular. ANTONYMS: (adj) legal, legitimate, authorized, honest, rightful unless: (adv) but, if, yet, besides, except with, further; (adv, conj) save; (conj) without, if not; (n) provisionally; (adj) not necessary unprovided: (adj) unorganized, unarranged, unbegun, untrimmed, unequipped, unready; (v) unsupplied unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before untold: (adj) infinite, incalculable,
innumerable, vast, uncounted, unnumbered, unlimited, endless; (v) unsaid, untalked of, unpublished. ANTONYMS: (adj) little, minor, small, tiny, open, slight unwedded: (adj) unwed unwilling: (adj) involuntary, loath, disinclined, averse, recalcitrant, backward, indisposed, grudging, loth, adverse, forced. ANTONYMS: (adj) inclined, amenable, keen, prepared, ready, eager, disposed, agreeable, accepting, happy upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up, onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at uttermost: (adj, n) extreme; (adj, adv) farthest; (n) maximum, level best; (adj) furthest, utter, last, farthermost, furthermost, ultimate, most. ANTONYM: (adj) moderate vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, ineffectual, unproductive, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, humble, useful, responsible, worthwhile, effective vanished: (adj, v) extinct, lost; (adj) disappeared, departed, missing, died out, absent, dead, wiped out, bygone; (v) exhausted. ANTONYMS: (adj) found, living vaunt: (n, v) boast, gasconade; (v) brag, swagger, flourish, bluster, gas, show off, blow, crow, gloat vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal, retaliation, requital, avengement, wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance; (n, v) avenge, resentment. ANTONYMS: (n) forgiveness, acceptance venice: (n) Venezia venturous: (adj) daring, adventurous, audacious, risky, hazardous, fearless, bold, foolhardy, rash, reckless, courageous venus: (adj) the Graces; (n) Urania, narcissus, terrestrial planet, Adonis, peri, solar system, Hyperion, houri, Hebe, genus Venus vermin: (n) bug, varmint, louse, trash, pest, brute, varment, scum, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, rabble verse: (n) rhyme, poem, stanza, poesy, strain, measure, song, paragraph, clause, couplet, vertex vexed: (adj) troubled, irritated, angry, pestered, peeved, harassed, sore, harried, uneasy, cross, offended. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm,
105 uncomplicated vial: (n) ampul, ampoule, bottle, flask, stoup, noggin, ampule, beaker, container, syringe, cruet victuals: (n) food, fare, viands, victual, edible, provender, grub, sustenance, support, diet, nutriment view: (n, v) sight, scene, regard, opinion, judgment, prospect, outlook, thought; (adj, v) observe, see; (n) idea. ANTONYMS: (v) disbelieve, mistrust vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, honorable, good, delightful, admirable, noble villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit, crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion. ANTONYMS: (n) heroine, hero vintner: (n) wine merchant, wine maker, shaper, maker, merchandiser, merchant virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence, quality, attribute; (n) honor, goodness, honesty, morality, decency, probity, efficacy. ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt, vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor, immorality, evil, demerit, inadequacy, disadvantage visit: (v) frequent, attend, call, view, gossip, jaw, inspect, haunt; (n, v) tour, chat; (n) sojourn vital: (adj) indispensable, critical, animated, crucial, fundamental, main, necessary, lively, alive, important, chief. ANTONYMS: (adj) trivial, unimportant, insignificant, optional, minor, sluggish, peripheral, listless, dull, dead, marginal vomit: (n, v) spew, puke, sick; (v) heave, throw up, retch, disgorge, cast, gag, eject; (n) vomiting wagner: (n) Richard Wagner wait: (n, v) pause, hold, stop; (v) expect, anticipate, stay, await, lurk, ambush, remain; (adj, v) tarry. ANTONYMS: (n) act, continuation, doing; (v) interrupt, leave, begin, depart, continue; (intj) hurry wake: (v) awaken, awake, rouse, stir, vigil, provoke, arouse, waken, excite; (n) train, trail. ANTONYMS: (v) nap, dissuade, discourage, snooze, stifle walk: (adj, n, v) step; (n, v) gait, ramble, march, pace, hike, course,
106 saunter, stroll, roam; (n) path. ANTONYMS: (v) run, ride, stride walking: (n) gait, ambulation, wading, shuffling, shambling, marching, noctambulism, traveling; (adv) afoot; (adj) moving, active wall: (n, v) fence, bar; (n) barrier, rampart, bulwark, cliff, earthwork, fortification, screen, rail, fencing walls: (n) brickwork, buttresses, defenses, masonry, ramparts, fortifications want: (n, v) lack, desire, miss, wish; (n) poverty, deficiency, deprivation, famine, necessity, destitution, shortage. ANTONYMS: (n, v) hate; (n) glut, despise, luxury, option, prosperity, supply; (v) disinterest, answer wanting: (adj, v) missing; (adj) deficient, lacking, absent, defective, short, failing, insufficient, devoid, poor, incomplete. ANTONYMS: (adj) sufficient, satisfactory, adequate, full, present wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light, licentious, unchaste, lewd, debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; (n, v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, wise, nice, kind, gentle, decent, clean, careful, observant, justifiable, involuntary warning: (n) notice, indication, caution, advice, example, lesson, hint, premonition, caveat, admonition; (adj, n) monitory. ANTONYMS: (n) encouragement, recommendation, approval; (adj) promising warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license, assure, sanction, empower; (n) authority, authorization, security; (v) justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) break; (v) debar wart: (n) verruca, condyloma acuminatum, bulge, tit, growth, lump, swelling, exostosis, bump, protuberance, venereal wart wash: (adj, n, v) soak; (n, v) paint; (v) clean, scrub, mop, moisten, lave, scour, bathe; (n) washing, ablution. ANTONYM: (v) soil water: (n) urine, sea, lake, ocean, moisture, juice, river; (n, v) wet; (v) moisten, soak, dampen. ANTONYMS: (v) dehydrate, dry waters: (n) Clara Erskine Clement, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, Ethel waters, body of water, bodily fluid, boot
Dr. Faustus waxen: (adj) pale, waxy, white, colorless, wan, ashen, yielding, soft, gray, drawn, cereous ways: (n) behavior, process, shipway, slipway, means, childbearing, conduct, construction, demeanor, direction, traveling weak: (adj, n) frail; (adj) flat, watery, fragile, flimsy, faint, thin, light, sickly, soft, nerveless. ANTONYMS: (adj) concentrated, firm, brave, safe, forceful, effective, healthy, intense, determined, powerful, robust wealth: (adj, n) abundance, plenty, affluence, opulence; (n, v) money, gold; (n) treasure, property, fortune, capital; (adj) richness. ANTONYMS: (n) penury, scarcity, dearth, want, need, lack wear: (n) clothing, clothes, apparel, attire, garb; (v) endure, fatigue, waste, bear, tire, fray. ANTONYMS: (v) refresh, reject, rebuild, please, freshen, disrobe, delight, cheer, refuse; (n) improvement week: (n) period, minute, second, hour, rag, day, calendar week, year, sevennight, Wyke, workweek weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob, blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet, whimper; (n) tear welcome: (adj) pleasant, acceptable, pleasing, agreeable; (n, v) accept; (n) hospitality, reception; (v) receive, greet, invite, hail. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwelcome, unwanted, unacceptable, displeasing, disagreeable, unpleasant; (v) reject, evict, bar; (n) unfriendliness, goodbye welkin: (n) sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sky, vault of heaven, celestial sphere, heaven, orbit, sphere of influence, surface wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab west: (n) due west, w, the occident, watt, geographic region, tungsten, New world; (adv) westwards; (v) to the west, south, north east whatever: (adj, pron) whatsoever; (pron) what, partly, whatso; (adv) no matter what, anyway, anyhow, regardless, in any case; (n) aught, anything whatsoever: (adj) any, at all, possible; (pron) what, anything, no matter what, partly, somewhat, anything that, whatso when: (adv, conj) once, as soon as; (adv) then, because, than, since,
after; (conj) although, while, if; (prep) during where: (adv) there, here, wherever, whither, in which, wherein, in what; (adv, pron) anywhere; (pron) everywhere; (n) point, spot wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore; (adv, n) why; (n) reason, proof; (adv) accordingly, consequently, so, wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then wherein: (adv) in what, in which, where wheresoever: (adv) wherever, whithersoever, whereso, wheresoe'er whether: (pron) where while: (adv, conj) whereas, as, although; (n) time, spell, period, moment, interval; (adv) when; (conj) though; (prep) during whilst: (conj) whereas, as, though, albeit, at the same time as, even as; (prep) during; (adj) pending white: (adj, n) pale; (adj) clean, blank, snowy, ashen, wan, achromatic, pure, pallid; (v) whiten; (n) Caucasian. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) black; (adj) dark, rosy, red, dirty; (v) blacken whither: (adv) hither, thither, whereunto, whereto, for whole: (adj, v) entire; (adj, n) total, integral, sum, aggregate, well; (adj, adv, n) all; (adj) complete, healthy, intact, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) incomplete, broken, partial, imperfect, unhealthy, deficient, destroyed, fractional, impaired, half, sick whore: (n) harlot, trollop, courtesan, tart, strumpet, hooker, streetwalker, cocotte, bawd, slattern, verticil wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious, evil, vile, depraved, mischievous, immoral, unholy, nasty, naughty. ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, pure, pious, moral, kind, admirable, kindhearted, helpful, decent, assisting, aiding wide: (adj) broad, spacious, roomy, extensive, comprehensive, large, vast, ample, capacious, open, sweeping. ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, restricted, skinny, straight, cramped, minute wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, married woman, spouse, consort, helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, viscountess willingly: (adv) readily, voluntarily, cheerfully, spontaneously, helpfully, disposedly, actively, openly,
Christopher Marlowe obligingly, eagerly; (adj, adv) freely. ANTONYMS: (adv) grudgingly, reluctantly, uncooperatively, unenthusiastically wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) flourish, rise, rally wind: (n, v) twist, turn; (v) meander, curl, bend, twine, curve, weave, crook; (n) air, gust. ANTONYMS: (v) unwind; (n) breeze winding: (n) twist, wind, turn; (adj) indirect, crooked, circuitous, meandering, twisty, wandering; (adj, n) twisting, twisted. ANTONYMS: (adj) direct, unbent wine: (n) vino, spirits, beer, saki, sake, Macon, maconnais, alcohol, liquor, dessert wine; (adj) mauve wings: (n) insignia, agency winter: (n) wintertime, season, time of year, hiems, frost, chill; (adj) wintery, wintry; (v) spend. ANTONYM: (n) heat wise: (adj) reasonable, sensible, sound, rational, sagacious, intelligent, prudent, shrewd, discreet; (adj, n) knowing; (n) method. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwise, stupid, ignorant, mistaken, illogical, reckless, naive, irrational, dense wish: (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) want, hope, need, inclination, longing, aspiration, aim; (v) like, choose; (n) pleasure. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) hatred, coercion, disinclination, aversion withal: (adv) nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, even so, all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, enough within: (adv, n, prep) inside; (adv, prep) in; (adv) indoors, internally, inwardly, inly; (adj, n) interior; (prep) into, on, between; (adj) inwards. ANTONYMS: (prep) beyond, out without: (adv, n, prep) outside; (adj, adv) except; (adj) lacking, save barring; (prep) out of, sans; (n) minus, provisionally; (adv) save, beyond; (adv, prep) besides. ANTONYMS: (prep) with, having; (adv) inside witness: (n, v) testimony, attest, evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness, onlooker, observer; (v) observe, notice, see, view. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, participate, refute witnesses: (n) audience
wives: (n) woman woman: (n) girl, female, lady, dame, madam, mistress, matron, maid, gentlewoman, Donna, petticoat. ANTONYMS: (n) man, gentleman women: (n) sex, gentle sex wonder: (adj, n) prodigy; (n) astonishment, admiration, amazement, surprise, miracle, phenomenon, muse; (v) admire, reflect, question. ANTONYMS: (n) expectation, belief, disapproval; (v) know, believe, anticipate, decide wondrous: (adj) marvelous, miraculous, marvellous, astonishing, tremendous, fantastic, phenomenal, extraordinary, rattling; (adv) wonderfully, marvellously word: (n) news, tidings, password, expression, report, vocable, statement, term; (v) formulate, phrase; (n, v) advice words: (n) speech, expression, row, text, fracas, argument; (n, v) altercation, squabble, tiff, dispute, quarrel works: (n) plant, workings, mill, manufactory, deeds, whole caboodle, kit and caboodle, kit and boodle, industrial plant, full treatment, distillery world: (n) cosmos, nature, creation, earth, public, sphere, society, realm, globe, macrocosm; (adj) global worth: (adj, n) value, dignity; (n) cost, virtue, price, importance, excellence, quality, import, goodness, benefit. ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, disadvantage, hopelessness, detriment, disgrace, inferiority, triviality, uselessness, inefficiency worthily: (adv) excellently, honorably, becomingly, praiseworthily, deservingly, splendidly, generously, meritoriously, virtuously, uprightly, goodly. ANTONYMS: (adv) badly, dishonorably wound: (n, v) bruise, cut, harm, pain, damage, scratch, stab, sting; (n) injury; (v) offend, injure. ANTONYMS: (v) heal, appease, aid, cure, repair wounding: (n) wound, injury; (adj) hurtful, spiteful, traumatic, grievous, offensive, stabbing, inflicting wounds, impertinent, harmful. ANTONYMS: (adj) harmless, complimentary, kind, polite, sympathetic wrath: (n) rage, resentment, ire, fury, displeasure, indignation, passion,
107 madness, choler, irritation; (adj) angry. ANTONYMS: (n) happiness, love, composure, serenity wretch: (n) victim, villain, scoundrel, reprobate, reptile, miscreant, martyr, object of compassion, poor devil, prey, wreak writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, judicial writ, injunction, order, act, prescription, scripture, writing, ukase write: (v) pen, indite, draw up, correspond, spell, record, publish, compile, draw, outline, type yearly: (adv) annually, each year, every year, per annum, per year, by year; (adj) perennial, anniversary, periodic, annual tickets; (n) a year yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, abroad, thither, further away, at that place; (adj) distant, yond, furious, fierce yourself: (adv) herself, themselves, itself, myself, ourselves, yourselves, physically yourselves: (pron) themselves, myself, herself youth: (n) youngster, young person, lad, juvenile, boy, adolescence, kid, younker, stripling, juvenility; (adj, n) young. ANTONYMS: (n) adulthood, adult, ripeness, maturity, aged zodiac: (n) band, girth, constellation, baldric, circle, tyre, Pleiades, diagram, girdle, Great Bear, girt
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