to encourage, assit

ant: hamper, hinder, impede, frustrate

to affirm, declare

syn: assert, avouch, asseverate

ant: deny, disavow

noisy in a coarse, offensive way

syn: flagrant, glaring, egregious

ant: trifling, piddling, inconsquential,

broach

to bring up  or begin to talk about

syn: bolster, reinforce, shore up

ant: undermine, weakin

noisy revelry or merrymaking

syn: drink bout, binge

to compare critically in order

Syn: sort out, cross check

an expert

syn: authority, savant, pundit

ant: ignoramus, philistine, yahoo

Disonsolate

deeply unhappy, without hope

Syn: grief-stricken, comfortless

ant: cheerful, blithe, jaunty

to weigh down or burden

syn: over load, clog, saddle

ant: unload, relieve

to promote trouble or rebellion, to apply warm liquids

Syn: instigate, incite, stir up

ant: quell, quash, squelch, suppress

grisly

frightful, ghastly

Syn: gruesome, gory

ant: pleasant, attractive

characterized by great strength

Syn: mighty, arduous, onerous,

ant: puny, lilliputian, bantam

impassive

showing no feelings or emotion, inamimate

Syn: stoical, insensible

ant: passionate, excitable

unfavorable, unquickly, suggesting bad luck

Syn: unpropitious, unpromising, untimely

ant: favorable, propitious

unquestionable, beyond dispute

Syn: incontestable, indisputable, indubitable

ant: debatable, dubious,

puzzled

Syn: perplexed,

ant: poised, confident

suitable or convenient for a particular purpose

Syn: timely, felicitous

ant: untimly, inconvenient

prolific

abundantly productive

syn: fruitful, fecund, proliferous

ant: barren, sterile, sparse

a reply to a reply

syn: answer, reply, riposte, retort