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WORD ANTONYMS WORD ANTONYMS

crude refined, sophisticated flexible rigid, stiff
cruel compassionate, merciful folly wisdom

danger safety, security foreign domestic

definite undecided, vague gaiety mourning, misery
delay expedite, hasten, hurry generosity stinginess, greed

dense sparse, thin gentle rough, harsh, cruel

despair hope, optimism genuine artificial, fake, fictitious,
destruction creation, construction spurious,
guilty clean, clear
diffident confident, conceited
haughty humble, modest
diligent lazy, slack
honour contempt, dishonour,
distant adjacent, near, recent shame
earthly celestial, heavenly humane atrocious, bestial, brutal

encourage demoralise, deter, humble arrogant, conceited,
discourage haughty, proud
energetic lifeless, weak humility arrogance, pride

enthusiasm disinclination, hypocrisy sincerity, honesty
indifference imperative optional
exceptional ordinary, unexceptional,
average include bar, exclude
explicit implicit, vague indolent active, energetic

exterior interior, inside industrious indolent
fact fiction, illusion inferior grand, superior, supreme

familiar alien, strange, joint separate, individual
unfamiliar junior senior
famous obscure,
undistinguished, keen reluctant
unknown knowledge ignorance
ferocious gentle, mild, tame lack plenty, abundance,

fickle constant, true excess

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