accelerate - to speed up, cause to move faster ; to bring about more quickly SYN: step up, quicken, hasten ANT:slow down, decelerate, bystander - One who looks on or observes a person present but not taking part SYN: observer, onlooker ATN: active participant, canvass - To go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions; to go over in detail, to discuss SYN: survey, solicit, casual - Happening by chance or an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal SYN: haphazard, offhand ANT: formal, serious, premeditated, downtrodden - Treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed SYN: mistreated, ground underfoot ANT:uplifted, liberated, entice - To attract, tempt SYN: lure, lead on ANT: nauseate, sicken revolt, repel, erode - To wear away gradually, eat away SYN: corrode, abrade ANT: nurture, promote, encourage, flounder - To thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way SYN: wallow, struggle, graphic - Lifelike, vivid, relating to the pictorial arts SYN: colorful, descriptive ANT: dull, boring, unrealistic, odorless, gruesome - Horrible, revolting, ghastly SYN: gory, hideous ANT: pleasant, delightful, appealing, melancholy - Sad, gloomy unhappy; Sadness gloominess SYN: depressed, dejected dejection depression ANTL merry, happy cheerful, joy elation, ordeal - A difficult or painful experience, a trial SYN: hardship, parch - To make dry and thirsty, to shrivel with heat SYN: dry up, dehydrate ANT: soak, drench, saturate, persist - To continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed to last, remain SYN: preserve, keep at it, endure ANT: give up, discontinue, puny - Of less than normal strength or size, of no importance SYN: undersized, pint-size, small, weak, quibble - To evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; a petty objection SYN: split hairs, cavil, squabble, ratify - To approve, give formal approval to, confirm SYN: endorse, sanction ANT: cancel, annul, veto, regal - Royal, kinglike, fit got a king SYN: majestic, stately, princely, august ANT: lowly, humble, abject, servile, stifle - To smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke of SYN: stanggle, suppress, snuff, vital - Having life, living, necessary to life, essential key, crucial SYN: indispensable, fundamental ANT: nonessential, unnecessary ,

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