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| 1. opposition; contrast; 2. The direct opposite; 3a. the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed o form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in "Give me liberty or give me death." 3b. the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as " or give me death." |
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| 1. to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise; 2. to slant upward; 3. to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level; 4. to go toward the source or beginning; to back in time; 5. to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to a higher one. |
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| 1. Government; 1a. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only; 1b. pertaining to an autonomy; 2. having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent; 3. Biology; 3b. existing and functioning as an independent organism; 3b. spontaneous |
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| 1. to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter; 2. to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter; 3. to waste(time) or as if by trifling |
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| the malicious uttering of falsehood respecting another |
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| 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite; 2. belonging to the select few; 3. private; secret; confidential; 4. intended to be revealed only to the initiates of a group |
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| 1. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of; aggravate; 2. to embitter the feelings of; irritate; exasperate |
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| to praise highly; laud; eulogize |
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| 1. excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please; 2. requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy |
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| 1. taken, done, used, surreptitiously or by stealth; secret; 2. sly; shifty |
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| 1. fond of the company or others; sociable; 2. living in flocks or herds, as animals; 3. growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together; 4. pertaining to a flock or crowd |
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| a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs |
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| 1. existing from the time a person or animal is born; 2. existing as part of the basic nature of something |
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| feeling a lack of energy or a lack of interest in doing things |
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| 1. not letting light through; not transparent; 2. difficult to understand or explain |
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| producing a large amount of something |
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| to criticize or correct(someone) usually in a gentle way |
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| the quality of something that has two sides of halves that are the same or very close in size, shape and position; the quality of having symmetrical parts |
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| to feel or show deep respect for someone or something that is considered great, or holy |
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