ANT: bashfulness, servility, considerateness, deference, courtesy, modesty, shyness, diffidence, politeness.
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KEY: Arrogate.
SYN: Claim, assume, vindicate, assert, demand.
ANT: Forego, waive, resign, surrender, abandon, disclaim.
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KEY: Art.
SYN: Science, literature, aptitude, readiness, adroitness, skill, dexterity, cunning, deceit, duplicity, tactics, profession, artifice, management, trade, business, calling.
ANT: Inaptitude, maladroitness, candor, openness, frankness, mismanagement.
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KEY: Artful.
SYN: Cunning, designing, maneuvering, sharp, knowing, subtle, sly, crafty, wily, shrewd.
ANT: Simple, undesigning, artless, open, innocent, unsophisticated.
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KEY: Artifice.
SYN: manoeuvre, cheat, wile, contrivance, craft, trick, fraud, machination, punning, imposture, stratagem.
ANT: Fairness, candor, simplicity, openness.
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KEY: Artificial.
SYN: Invented, fabricated, fictitious, constructed, manufactured, pretended, simulated, false, assumed, concocted, contrived, deceptive, artful, affected, unnatural, constrained.
ANT: Natural, inartificial, genuine, spontaneous, transparent, artless, unaffected, [See ARTFUL].
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KEY: Artless, [See ARTFUL].
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KEY: Ascend.
SYN: Rise, mount, soar, surmount, go up, climb, tower, scale.
ANT: Fall, descend, sink.
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KEY: Ascendancy.
SYN: Superiority, advantage, mastery, control, influence, supremacy, sway, domination, authority.
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KEY: Ascertain.
SYN: Prove, verify, find out, discover, confirm, detect, determine, learn, discern.
ANT: Guess, conjecture, surmise, suppose, presume.
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KEY: Ascribe.
SYN: Assign, attribute, impute, refer, render, allege, charge.
ANT: Deny, refuse, exclude, dissociate, disconnect, dissever.
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KEY: Askant.
SYN: Away, askew, asquint, obliquely, aslant.
ANT: Straightforwards, forwards, rectilinearly, ahead, straight.
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KEY: Aspect.
SYN: Front, face, phase, side, appearance, presentation, exhibition, exposure, feature, view, air, mien, deportment, countenance, bearing, complexion, sight.
ANT: Back, obverse, rear.
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KEY: Asperity.
SYN: Acerbity, harshness, acrimony, bitterness, sharpness, tartness, sourness, roughness, moroseness, severity, crabbedness.
ANT: Mildness, softness, sweetness, gentleness, pleasantness, smoothness.