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KEY: Advocate \v.\ [See NOUN.]

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KEY: Afar.

SYN: Abroad, away, aloof.

ANT: Near, at home, close.

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KEY: affable.

SYN: Courteous, accessible, condescending, conversible, gracious, sociable, gentle, complaisant, urbane, polite, easy, approachable.

ANT: Exclusive, discourteous, distant, inaccessible, unapproachable, inconversible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious.

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KEY: Affair.

SYN: Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction.

ANT: Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance.

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KEY: Affect.

SYN: Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern, interest, feign, pretend.

ANT: Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate.

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KEY: Affectation.

SYN: Pretence, artifice, hypocrisy, assumption, simulation, mannerism, euphuism, airs.

ANT: Genuineness, naturalness, un affectedness, simplicity, artlessness.

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KEY: affectibility.

SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility, excitability, irritability, nervousness.

ANT: Insensibility, insensateness, hebetude, unimpressibleness, callousness.

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KEY: Affection.

SYN: Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity.

ANT: Insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion.

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KEY: Affiance.

SYN: Homage, trust, confidence, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting.

ANT: Unfealty, disloyalty, treason, suspicion, Infidelity, falseness.

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KEY: Affiliate.

SYN: Annex, graft, incorporate, unite, adopt, inoculate.

ANT: Dismember, disannex, disaffiliate, sever, transplant, separate, disjoin, disunite.

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KEY: Affiliation, [See AFFILIATE].

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KEY: Affinity.

SYN: Relationship, relation, kindred, conformity, connection, alliance, similarity, analogy, homogeneity, harmony, correlativeness, sympathy, interdependence, interconnection, intercommunity.

ANT: Dissimilarity, discordance, disconnection, independence, antagonism, antipathy, repugnance, interrepulsiveness.

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KEY: Affirm.

SYN: Assert, swear, testify, tell, aver, propound, asseverate, depose, state, declare, endorse, maintain.

ANT: Deny, dispute, doubt, demur, negative, contradict, gainsay, oppugn, impugn, oppose.

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KEY: Affix.

SYN: Attach, annex, subjoin, adjoin, connect, fasten, unite, append.

ANT: Detach, disunite, separate, remove, disengage, unfasten.

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KEY: Affliction.

SYN: Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow.

ANT: Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more (or, positively:), boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure.

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KEY: Affluence.

SYN: Abundance, plenty, wealth, riches, opulence.

ANT: Want, scarcity, penury, indigence, poverty, impecuniosity, straitness, lack.

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KEY: Afflux.

SYN: Accession, importation, augmentation, increase, addition, influx.

ANT: Decrease, detriment, detraction, diminution, exhaustion, failure, ebb.

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KEY: Afford.

SYN: Produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer, extend.

ANT: Withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge.

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KEY: Affranchise.

SYN: Free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, qualify, open.

ANT: Enthral, enslave, subjugate, disfranchise, disqualify, close.

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KEY: Affray.

SYN: Broil, tumult, brawl, melee, fracas, disturbance, uproar, quarrel, strife, wrangle, altercation.

ANT: Order, tranquillity, pacification, dispersion, quelling.

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KEY: Affright.

SYN: Startle, astonish, terrify, alarm, dismay, cow, frighten, scare.

ANT: Encourage, embolden, reassure.

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KEY: Affront.

SYN: Outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, Indignity.

ANT: Homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment.

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KEY: Afire.

SYN: Ablaze, alight, burning, ignited.

ANT: Out, extinguished, quenched.

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KEY: Afloat.

SYN: Adrift, abroad, at sea, abroach, loose, distracted, dazed.