ANT: Proceed, continue, extend, advance, stand, stiffen, break, crush, resist.

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KEY: Beneath.

SYN: Below, underneath, under, adown.

ANT: Above, over, overhead, aloft.

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KEY: Benediction.

SYN: Blessing, commendation, approval, benison, gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving.

ANT: Curse, malediction, disapproval, censure, obloquy, execration, ingratitude.

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KEY: Benefaction.

SYN: Grant, gratuity, boon, donation, aims, present, gift, endowment, bequest, favor, presentation.

ANT: Deprivation, reservation, disfavor, presumption, confiscation, disendowment.

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KEY: Benefactor.

SYN: Friend, supporter, contributor, upholder, well-wisher, favorer, well-doer, patron.

ANT: Foe, opponent, disfavorer, antagonist, rival, backfriend, oppressor.

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KEY: Beneficial.

SYN: Profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious.

ANT: Prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental.

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KEY: Beneficent.

SYN: Bountiful, benevolent, benignant.

ANT: Hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal, oppressive, cruel.

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KEY: Benefit.

SYN: Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing.

ANT: Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury, privation.

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KEY: Benevolence.

SYN: Kindness, goodwill, charity, philanthropy, kindliness, kind-heartedness, benignity, beneficence, liberality.

ANT: Unkindness, harshness, barbarity, niggardliness, maleficence, malignity, illiberality, ill-will, churlishness.

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KEY: Benevolent, [See BENEFICIENT].

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KEY: Benignant, [See BENEFICIENT].

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KEY: Benison, [See BENEDICTION].

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KEY: Bent.

SYN: Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition, intention, prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning.

ANT: Indisposition, aversion.

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KEY: Bequeath.

SYN: Give, grant, leave by will, devise, will, bestow, impart, demise, leave \n.\ Legacy, inheritance.

ANT: Withhold, alienate \n.\ Disinheritance, transference, abalienation, dispossession.

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KEY: Bereave.

SYN: Rob, deprive, divest, dispossess, impoverish, reduce, spoil, strip.

ANT: Replenish, compensate, reinstate, satisfy, enrich, benefit.

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KEY: Bereavement.

SYN: Destitution, affliction, deprivation, loss.

ANT: Gift, blessing, donation, benefaction, compensation, reparation, restoration, reinstatement, substitution, restitution, consolation.

ANT: [See [BENEFACTION and BENEFIT].

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KEY: Bereft.

SYN: Robbed, deprived, destitute, denied, spoiled.

ANT: Endowed, enriched, compensated, consoled, possessed.

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KEY: Beseech.

SYN: Entreat, pray, solicit, ask, implore, crave, request, supplicate, petition, beg.

ANT: Insist, demand, exact, intimidate, command, coerce.

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KEY: Beseem.

SYN: Befit, suit, belong, appertain.

ANT: Unbeseem, disgrace.

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KEY: Beseeming.

SYN: Befitting, belonging, suitable, appertaining, consistent, compatible, requisite, decent, graceful.

ANT: Unbefitting, unseemly, unsuitable, improper, indecent, ungraceful.

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KEY: Bound.

SYN: Hem, surround, environ, encircle, besiege, beleaguer, embarrass.

ANT: Liberate, abandon.

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KEY: Beside.

SYN: Close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together, moreover.

ANT: Separate, apart, inclusively.

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KEY: Besiege.

SYN: Beset, beleaguer, sit, invest.

ANT: Abandon, (Phrase, “Raise the siege”).

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KEY: Besmear, [See BEDAUB].

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KEY: Besotted.

SYN: Intoxicated, steeped, stupefied, drunk, drenched, doltish, gross, prejudiced.

ANT: Sober, temperate, clear, unbiased, unprejudiced, enlightened, refined.

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KEY: Bespatter.

SYN: Besprinkle, befoul, bedaub, revile, vilify, asperse.

ANT: Absterge, sponge, cleanse, purify, vindicate, defend, clear.