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KEY: Blessing.

SYN: Felicitation, benediction, endowment, donation, gift, gratitude, thankfulness, thanks, benefit.

ANT: Impoverishment, deprivation, bereavement, malediction, thanklessness, obliviousness, catastrophe, disaster, calamity, detriment, curse, damn.

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KEY: Blight, [See BLAST].

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KEY: Blind.

SYN: Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant, prejudiced, uninformed, unconscious, unaware.

ANT: Farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating, clearsighted, pure-minded, aware, conscious.

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KEY: Blink.

SYN: Wink, ignore, connive, overlook.

ANT: Notice, visit, note, mark.

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KEY: Bliss.

SYN: Blessedness, joy, ecstasy, rapture.

ANT: Condemnation, accursedness, suffering, misery, woe.

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KEY: Blithe.

SYN: Light, merry, joyous, happy, bright, elastic, gladsome, bonny, vivacious, lively, cheerful, blithesome, gay.

ANT: Heavy, dull, dejected, sullen.

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KEY: Block.

SYN: Stop, arrest, fill, obstruct.

ANT: Free, liberate, open, pave.

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KEY: Blockhead.

SYN: Dolt, dunderhead, jolterhead, dunce, ninny, numskull, dullard, simpleton, booby, loggerhead, ignoramus.

ANT: Sage, adept, luminary, schoolman, philosopher, savant.

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KEY: Bloodshed.

SYN: Slaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery.

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KEY: Bloodthirsty.

SYN: Gory, bloody, murderous, inhuman, cruel, ruthless, savage.

ANT: Humane, kind, merciful.

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KEY: Bloom.

SYN: Blossom, bud, flower, sprout, germinate, beauty, freshness, delicacy.

ANT: Decay, decadence, coarseness, blight, blast, harshness, roughness, toughness, superannuation, cadaverousness, ghastliness.

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KEY: Blooming.

SYN: Flourishing, fair, flowering, blossoming, young, beautiful.

ANT: Fading, waning, blighted, old, blasted, paralyzed, superannuated, unsightly, deformed.

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KEY: Blot \v.\

SYN: Obscure, tarnish, spoil, sully, spot, discolor, pollute, obliterate, erase, blur, stain, blotch, smear, smutch.

ANT: Elucidate, clear, absterge, perpetuate, cleanse, manifest, conserve.

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KEY: Blot out.

SYN: Erase, efface, cancel, expunge, wipe out, obliterate, destroy.

ANT: Restore, replace.

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KEY: Blotch, [See BLOT].

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KEY: Blow.

SYN: Puff, blast, breath, stroke, infliction, wound, disappointment, affliction, knock, shock, calamity, misfortune.

ANT: Assuagement, consolation, relief, comfort, blessing, sparing.

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KEY: Bluff.

SYN: Bare, open, bold, abrupt, frank, plain-spoken, blunt, surly, rude, blustering, swaggering, brusque, hectoring, coarse, discourteous, rough, bullying.

ANT: Undulating, inclined, inabrupt, courteous, polished, reserved.

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KEY: Blunder.

SYN: Error, mistake, misunderstanding, fault, oversight, inaccuracy, delusion, slip.

ANT: Accuracy, truthfulness, exactness, correctness, faultlessness, ratification, atonement, foresight, prevention, hit, success, achievement, correction.

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KEY: Blunt \a.\

SYN: Dull, obtuse, pointless, edgeless, insensitive, bluff, coarse, impolite, plain-mannered, uncivil, rude.

ANT: Sharp, keen, pointed, acute, aculeated, sensitive, polished, bland, eloquent, courteous, reserved.

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KEY: Blunt \v.\

SYN: To subdue, repress, tranquilize, discourage, ossify, numb, harden.

ANT: Quicken, sharpen, instigate, suscitate, stimulate, animate, excite, vitalize.

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KEY: Blur, [See BLEMISH].

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KEY: Blush.

SYN: Bloom, color, carnation, complexion, aspect, shame, confusion, guiltiness, self-reproach.

ANT: Innocence, purity, guiltlessness, unconsciousness, boldness, effrontery.

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KEY: Bluster.

SYN: Storm, rage, puff, insult, blow, swagger, fume, brag.

ANT: [See BRAG].

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KEY: Blustering, [See BLUFF].

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KEY: Boast \v.\

SYN: Vaunt, brag, swagger, swell, bluster, vapor, triumph, glory.

ANT: [See BRAG].