ANT: Tenuity, minority, dismemberment, disintegration, diminution, portion, contraction, section, atom, particle.

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KEY: Bulk, [See SIZE].

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KEY: Bulky.

SYN: Huge, unwieldy, heavy, large, ample, ponderous, burly, cumbrous, gigantic, brawny, massive.

ANT: Small, light, slight, airy, thin, delicate, nimble, attenuated, slender, sylphlike, puny, tiny.

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KEY: Bully.

SYN: swashbuckler, swaggerer, braggadocio.

ANT: [See BLUSTERER].

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KEY: Bullying, [See BLUSTERING].

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KEY: Bulwark.

SYN: Rampart, fortress, fortification, palladium, citadel, intrenchment, stronghold, parapet, bastion.

ANT: Storming, siege, investment, bombardment, cannonade, boarding.

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KEY: Bungler.

SYN: Botcher, clown, lubber, fumbler, novice.

ANT: Adept, adroit, master, artist, workman, proficient, professor.

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KEY: Buoy.

SYN: Float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer, inspire.

ANT: Sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail, betray.

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KEY: Buoyant.

SYN: Sprightly, spirited, vivacious, lively, light, floating, hopeful, cheerful, elastic, [See JOY].

ANT: Heavy, depressed, cheerless, joyless, dejected, moody, desponding.

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KEY: Burden \v.\ [See LOAD].

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KEY: Burden \n.\

SYN: Load, weight, Incubus, obstruction, oppression, grief, difficulty, affliction.

ANT: Ease, lightness, airiness, expedition, facility, acceleration, abjugation, liberation, lightheartedness, alleviation, assuagement, mitigation, consolation, disburdenment.

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KEY: Burdensome, [See TROUBLESOME and PONDEROUS].

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KEY: Burial.

SYN: Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment.

ANT: Exhumation, disinterment.

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KEY: Burke.

SYN: Stifle, shelve, strangle, smother.

ANT: Enucleate, propound, promulge, publicate, promote, foster, reanimate, eliminate, ventilate, bruit, suscitate.

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KEY: Burlesque.

SYN: Parody, travesty, satire, caricature, grotesque, droll, farcical, comic, ludicrous.

ANT: Classic, pure, severe, tragic, historic, grave, truthful.

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KEY: Burly, [See BULKY].

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KEY: Burn.

SYN: Ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder, blaze, flash, cremate, incinerate.

ANT: Extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale.

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KEY: Burning, [See ARDENT].

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KEY: Burnish.

SYN: Brighten, glaze, polish, gloze, gloss.

ANT: Scratch, dull, abrade, bedim, cloud, frost, matt.

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KEY: Burst \v.\

SYN: Extravasate, displode, explode, discharge, shiver, shatter, disrupt, rend, break, split.

ANT: Cohere, hold, stand.

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KEY: Bury.

SYN: Inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel, entomb, compose, hush.

ANT: Disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate, publicate, aggravate.

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KEY: Business.

SYN: Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office, employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern.

ANT: Stagnation, leisure, inactivity.

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KEY: Bustle.

SYN: Business, activity, stir, commotion, energy, excitement, haste, hurry, eagerness, flurry.

ANT: Idleness, vacation, inactivity, Indolence, Indifference, unconcernedness, coolness, calm, stagnation, quiet, desertion.

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KEY: Busy.

SYN: Industrious, diligent, assiduous, engaged, occupied.

ANT: Idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, unoccupied.

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KEY: But.

SYN: Save, except, barring, yet, beside, excluding, still, excepting, notwithstanding.

ANT: With, including, inclusive, nevertheless, however, notwithstanding.

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KEY: Butchery, [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Buxom.

SYN: Bonny, blithe, shapely.

ANT: Lean, slender, ill-shaped.

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KEY: Buy.

SYN: Purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn.

ANT: Sell, vend, hawk, retail.

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KEY: Buyer, [See BUY].

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KEY: Cabal.

SYN: Confederacy, conspiracy, combination, coterie, gang, faction, plot, political intrigue, junto, league.