n. a joining together for some common purpose

Synonyms: pact, league, coalition

Antonyms:rift, split

v. to puzzle completely,confuse

Synonyms: baffle, perplex

Antonyms: set straight, enlighten

n. a clown; a course, stupid person

Synonyms: jester, fool

adj. arousing argument, dispute, or disagreement

Synonyms: Arguable, debateable

v. to discourage

Synonyms: dismay, demoralize, dispirit

Antonyms: encourage, hearten

adj. not producing the desired results, unsuccessful

Synonyms: useless, vain, unproductive, futile

Antonyms: productive, vain

adj. unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike; aggressive

Antonyms: friendly, cordial, peaceful

adj. easily set on fire; easily angered or aroused

Synonyms: combustible, flammable, exitable

Antonyms: fireproof, fire-resistant, calm

v. to give or cause something unpleasent, impose

Synonyms: deal out, visit upon

Antonyms: suffer, undergo, sustain

adj. deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful, malicious

Synonyms: lethal, wicked

Antonyms: wholesome, beneficial, benign

v. to hurt someone's feelings deeply, to cause embarrassment

Synonyms: humiliate, embarrass, abash

adj. in agreement with established or generally accepeted belies or ways of doing things

Synonyms: traditional, stadard, customary

Antonyms: unusual, unconventional, heretical

v. to obtainthrough special effort; to bring about

Synonyms: gain, aquire, achieve

to run quickly, scamper, hurry

Synonyms: rush, dash, sramble

Antonyms: trudge, plod, creep, crawl

adj. soaked with liquid or moisture; expressionless, dull; spiritless, listless

Synonyms: drenched, waterlogged, saturated

Antonyms: parched, arid

adj. full of life and vigor; corageous

Synonyms: lively, animated, gallant

Antonyms: lifeless, dull, lackluster

adj. having certain force effect in fact but not in name; so close as to be equivalent to the real thing

Synonyms: funtioning as, equivalent to

adj. completely empty; having no legal force or effect n. empty or unfilled space v. to cancel or nullify

Synonyms: adj. invalid, vacant, bare

Antonyms: adj. in effect, teeming with, v. confirm

adj, disobedient, willful, unpredictable, capricious

Synonyms: perverse

Antonyms: docile, well-behaved, predictable

v. to draw back suddenly, as though in pain or fear

n. the act of drawing back in this way

Synonyms: v. flinch, shudder, recoil