A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology

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~4.~ Fit, adapt, suit, proportion, accommodate, measure, make conform, make conformable.

~Adjustment~, _n._ ~1.~ Arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights.

~2.~ Regulation, setting, putting right.

~3.~ Settlement, reconciliation, pacification.

~4.~ Fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable.

~Adjutant~, _n._ (_Mil._) Assistant (_of a superior officer_).

~Admeasurement~, _n._ Measurement.

~Administer~, _v. a_. ~1.~ Dispense, give, distribute, supply, contribute, deal out, give out.

~2.~ Direct, manage, conduct, control, superintend, preside over.

~3.~ Tender, offer, proffer.

~Administer~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Contribute, conduce, be helpful.

~2.~ (_Law_.) Act as administrator.

~Administration~, _n._ ~1.~ Dispensation, distribution.

~2.~ Management, conduct, direction, control, superintendence.

~3.~ Executive department (_of a government_), President (_or other chief magistrate_) and cabinet.

~4.~ (_Law._) Management of an estate (_of an intestate_).

~Admirable~, _a._ ~1.~ [_Rare._] Wonderful, surprising, striking, astonishing.

~2.~ Excellent, incomparable, inimitable, fine, rare, transcendent, matchless, perfect, first-rate, worthy of admiration.

~Admiration~, _n._ ~1.~ [_Rare._] Wonder, surprise, astonishment, amazement.

~2.~ Liking, love, high regard, high opinion.

~Admire~, _v. a._ ~1.~ [_Rare._] Wonder at, be surprised at, be astonished or amazed at.

~2.~ Like much, think highly of, have a high opinion of, prize or value highly.

~Admire~, _v. n._ [_Rare._] Wonder, marvel, be surprised or astonished.

~Admirer~, _n._ Lover, gallant, suitor, sweetheart, beau, CICISBEO.

~Admissible~, _a._ Permissible, allowable, lawful, proper, justifiable, warrantable.

~Admission~, _n._ ~1.~ Admittance, introduction, access, entrance, initiation, ENTRÉE.

~2.~ Allowance, avowal, concession, acknowledgment, assent.

~Admit~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Receive, grant entrance to, let in, take in, open the door to.

~2.~ Concede, accept, grant, acknowledge, own, confess, take for granted, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.

~3.~ Permit, allow, bear, admit of, be capable of.

~Admit of~, Admit, permit, allow, bear, be capable of.

~Admittance~, _n._ ~1.~ Admission, introduction, ENTRÉE.

~2.~ Access, means of approach, liberty to approach.

~Admixture~, _n._ ~1.~ Mixture.

~2.~ Spice, dash, infusion, sprinkling, touch, seasoning, smack, taste, tincture, tinge.

~Admonish~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Reprove (_gently_), censure, warn of a fault.

~2.~ Advise, counsel, caution, forewarn, enjoin.

~3.~ Instruct, inform, teach, apprise, acquaint, notify, make acquainted, make aware.

~Admonition~, _n._ ~1.~ Hint of a fault, gentle reproof.

~2.~ Advice, counsel, caution, warning, monition.

~Admonitory~, _a._ Admonishing, monitory.

~Ado~, _n._ ~1.~ Trouble, difficulty, labor, pains.

~2.~ Bustle, stir, flurry, fuss, noise, tumult, turmoil, pother, confusion, commotion, TO-DO.

~Adolescence~, _n._ Youth, juvenility, minority, juniority, nonage, teens, prime of life, flower of life, bloom of life.

~Adolescent~, _a._ Youthful, juvenile, young.

~Adopt~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Appropriate, take to one's self, take or select as one's own.

~2.~ Approve, espouse, support, maintain.

~3.~ Affiliate, father, treat as one's own child.

~Adoption~, _n._ ~1.~ Appropriation.

~2.~ Approval, espousal, support, maintenance.

~3.~ Affiliation, adopting, fathering.

~Adorable~, _a._ ~1.~ Divine, to be adored, worthy of adoration.

~2.~ Estimable, venerable, worthy of love or honor.

~Adoration~, _n._ ~1.~ Worship, devotion.

~2.~ Homage, reverence, veneration.

~Adore~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Worship.

~2.~ Revere, venerate, idolize, honor, pay homage to.

~Adorer~, _n._ ~1.~ Worshipper.

~2.~ Idolater, great admirer.

~Adorn~, _v. a._ Embellish, decorate, beautify, ornament, deck, bedeck, emblazon, gild, trim, grace, crown, varnish, array, set out, set off, TRICK OUT.

~Adroit~, _a._ Dexterous, expert, skilful, apt, handy, ready, quick, clever, able, masterly.

~Adscititious~, _a._ Additional, supplemental, supplementary, superadded.

~Adulation~, _n._ Flattery, flummery, excessive praise, extravagant compliment.

~Adulatory~, _a._ Flattering, smooth, oily, full of compliments, servile in compliment.

~Adult~, _a._ Mature, grown up, full grown, of age, of mature age.

~Adult~, _n._ Person of mature age, grown up person.

~Adulterate~, _v. a._ Debase, corrupt, vitiate, sophisticate, alloy, dash, deteriorate, make impure.

~Adulteration~, _n._ Debasement, corruption, deterioration, sophistication.

~Adulterous~, _a._ Unchaste, rakish, dissolute.

~Adultery~, _n._ Violation of the marriage-bed.

~Adumbrate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Shadow, foreshadow, shadow out, shadow forth.

~2.~ Typify, represent, symbolize, show, denote, stand for.

~Adumbration~, _n._ ~1.~ Shadowing forth, faint sketch, faint representation, indistinct image.

~2.~ Type, image, shadow, symbol.

~Aduncous~, _a._ Crooked, hooked, bent, curved.

~Advance~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Promote, aggrandize, exalt, elevate, dignify, raise to preferment, raise to higher rank.

~2.~ Forward, further, promote, improve, strengthen, make better, encourage the progress of.

~3.~ Allege, adduce, propose, offer, assign, propound, bring forward, lay down.

~4.~ Pay beforehand, supply beforehand, furnish on credit.

~5.~ Increase (_as price_), enhance, augment, make greater, make higher.

~Advance~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Proceed, progress, make progress, make way, get forward, go forward, get on, go on, get along, come on, gain ground.

~2.~ Improve, grow, thrive, make improvement.

~Advance~, _n._ ~1.~ Progress, progression, march, way, moving forward.

~2.~ Improvement, growth, advancement.

~3.~ Payment beforehand, anticipated payment.

~4.~ Tender, offer, proposal, proposition.

~5.~ Increase (_of price_), enhancement.

~Advance-guard~, _n._ Vanguard.

~Advancement~, _n._ ~1.~ Progress, progression, proficiency.

~2.~ Promotion, preferment, elevation, exaltation, aggrandizement.

~3.~ Improvement, advance, growth.

~Advantage~, _n._ ~1.~ Favorable opportunity, vantage-ground, superior situation or condition, best estate, best plight.

~2.~ Superiority, ascendency, pre-eminence, upper-hand.

~3.~ Benefit, avail, profit, gain, emolument, return, utility, expediency, good, weal, service, blessing.

~4.~ Behalf, behoof, account, interest.

~5.~ Privilege, prerogative, convenience, accommodation, EASEMENT.

~Advantage~, _v. a._ Benefit, profit, serve, help, avail, advance the interest of, be of advantage to.

~Advantageous~, _a._ Beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, for one's advantage, for one's interest, for one's good.

~Advent~, _n._ ~1.~ Arrival, coming, approach.

~2.~ Coming of Christ.

~Adventitious~, _a._ Accidental, incidental, extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, non-essential.

~Adventure~, _n._ ~1.~ Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake.

~2.~ Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.

~3.~ Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, contingency.

~4.~ (_Com._) Speculation.

~Adventure~, _v. a._ Hazard, venture, risk, peril, imperil, put to hazard, put at risk, put in danger.

~Adventure~, _v. n._ Dare, venture, take the risk, run the risk, incur the hazard.

~Adventurous~, _a._ ~1.~ Bold, daring, courageous, venturesome, venturous, chivalrous, doughty, enterprising.

~2.~ Rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, foolhardy, full of hazard.

~Adversaria~, _n. pl._ Notes, memoranda, remarks, note-book, journal, commonplace-book.

~Adversary~, _n._ ~1.~ Enemy, foe, antagonist, opponent, adverse party.

~2.~ [With _The_ prefixed.] DEVIL, Satan.

~Adverse~, _a._ ~1.~ Contrary, opposing, unpropitious, counteracting, conflicting, HEAD, not propitious.

~2.~ Hostile, inimical, antagonistic.

~3.~ Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous.

~Adversity~, _n._ Misfortune, calamity, affliction, trouble, suffering, woe, disaster, distress, misery, ill-luck, bad luck, broken fortunes, hard life, frowns of fortune.

~Advert to~, ~1.~ Observe, remark, regard, heed, consider, notice, mark, view, give heed to, take notice of, pay attention to, attend to, look to, see to, give heed to, have an eye to, give a thought to, look after.

~2.~ Refer to, allude to.

~Advertence~, _n._ Attention, heed, regard, observance, observation, notice, consideration, heedfulness, mindfulness.

~Advertency~, _n._ Attention, heed, regard, observance, observation, notice, consideration, heedfulness, mindfulness.

~Advertise~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Announce, publish, declare, promulgate, trumpet, proclaim, make known, spread abroad, noise abroad, give notice of, lay before the public, bring to the notice of the public, make proclamation of.

~2.~ Offer for sale.

~Advertisement~, _n._ Announcement, notification, information, notice, proclamation, promulgation, trumpeting.

~Advice~, _n._ ~1.~ Counsel, suggestion, instruction, recommendation, admonition, warning, caution, exhortation.

~2.~ Intelligence, information, notice, notification, tidings, word.

~Advisability~, _n._ Expediency, advisableness.

~Advisable~, _a._ Expedient, proper, fit, prudent, desirable, fit to be advised.

~Advise~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Counsel, admonish, suggest, recommend to, give counsel to, give advice to.

~2.~ Inform, acquaint, apprise, make known to, give notice to, send word to, write word to.

~Advise~, _v. n._ Confer, consult, deliberate, take counsel, hold a conference.

~Advisedly~, _ad._ Deliberately, heedfully, purposely, by design, with consideration.

~Advisement~, _n._ Consultation, deliberation.

~Adviser~, _n._ Counsellor, instructor, guide, director, mentor, monitor.

~Advocacy~, _n._ Defence, vindication, support, countenance.

~Advocate~, _v. a._ Defend, support, vindicate, justify, countenance, uphold, favor, plead in favor of, stand up for.

~Advocate~, _n._ ~1.~ Counsellor, counsel, barrister, lawyer, attorney, solicitor, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.

~2.~ Defender, vindicator, supporter, favorer, apologist, friend, patron.

~3.~ Intercessor, comforter, paraclete, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth.

~4.~ [With _The_ prefixed.] Christ.

~Ægis~, _n._ ~1.~ Shield, buckler.

~2.~ Defence, protection, safeguard.

~Aerial~, _a._ ~1.~ Atmospheric.

~2.~ Aeriform, gaseous, vaporous, ethereal, airy, empyreal, light.

~3.~ High, lofty.

~Aerie~, _n._ ~1.~ Nest (_of a bird of prey_).

~2.~ Brood (_of birds of prey_).

~Aeriform~, _a._ Gaseous, ethereal, vaporous, airy, aerial.

~Aerolite~, _n._ Meteoric stone.

~Aeronaut~, _n._ Balloonist, aerial navigator.

~Aeronautics~, _n._ Aerostation, ballooning.

~Aerostation~, _n._ AERONAUTICS.

~Æsthetics~, _n._ [Sometimes written _Esthetics_.] Philosophy of the fine arts, theory or philosophy of taste, science of the beautiful.

~Afar~, _ad._ Far off, long way off, afar off, wide away, a great way off, at a distance, to or from a distance.

~Affability~, _n._ ~1.~ Sociability, sociableness.

~2.~ Courtesy, courteousness, complaisance, condescension, civility, politeness, urbanity, comity, amenity, suavity, amiability, good manners, good breeding, obliging manner.

~Affable~, _a._ ~1.~ Conversable, communicative, free, unreserved, open, sociable, social.

~2.~ Courteous, complaisant, civil, polite, obliging, urbane, debonair, familiar, easy, gracious, mild, condescending, well-bred.

~Affair~, _n._ ~1.~ Business, concern, matter, circumstance, question, subject.

~2.~ Event, occurrence, incident, transaction, proceeding, performance.

~3.~ Battle, engagement, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush.

~Affair of honor~, Duel.

~Affect~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Influence, act upon, work upon.

~2.~ Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.

~3.~ Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.

~4.~ Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at.

~5.~ Assume, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.

~Affectation~, _n._ Pretension, airs, affectedness, mannerism, assumed manners, affected manner.

~Affected~, _a._ ~1.~ Assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting.

~2.~ Assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, priggish.

~Affectedness~, _n._ AFFECTATION.

~Affecting~, _a._ Moving, touching, pathetic, impressive.

~Affection~, _n._ ~1.~ Feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind.

~2.~ Attribute, quality, property, accident, modification, mode.

~3.~ Love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-will, tender passion.

~4.~ (_Med._) Disorder, malady, disease.

~Affectionate~, _a._ Loving, fond, attached, devoted, warm, tender, kind, sympathetic, tender-hearted, warm-hearted.

~Affiance~, _v. a._ Betroth, engage.

~Affidavit~, _n._ Testimony (_in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, but given without cross-examination_), evidence, DEPOSITION.

~Affiliate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Adopt, treat as one's own child.

~2.~ Connect, associate, unite, join, bring into close relation.

~Affinity~, _n._ ~1.~ Relationship (_by marriage_), KIN, CONSANGUINITY, propinquity.

~2.~ Resemblance, likeness, relation, correlation, analogy, connection, similarity, similitude, parallelism, correspondence, parity, sympathy.

~3.~ (_Chem._) Attraction.

~Affirm~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Declare, aver, assert, maintain, asseverate, avouch, vouch, allege, say, profess, protest, pronounce, predicate.

~2.~ Confirm, ratify, approve, establish.

~Affirm~, _v. n._ Assert, declare, aver, say, state, SWEAR, testify, depose, bear witness.

~Affirmable~, _a._ Predicable.

~Affirmation~, _n._ Assertion, declaration, asseveration, word, averment, protestation, avowal, predication, testimony, deposition.

~Affirmative~, _a._ ~1.~ That affirms.

~2.~ INDICATIVE.

~3.~ (_Alg._) Positive, not negative.

~Affix~, _v. a._ Join, subjoin, annex, attach, connect, set to, unite to the end.

~Affix~, _n._ Postfix, suffix.

~Afflatus~, _n._ Inspiration, supernatural influence.

~Afflict~, _v. a._ Grieve, distress, trouble, torment, agonize, plague, pain, hurt, harass, wound, exercise, grind, persecute, smite, make sorrowful.

~Afflicting~, _a._ Grievous, painful, distressing, calamitous, disastrous, afflictive, sad, unhappy, unfortunate, unlucky, wretched, dire, deplorable, sore, woful, severe, hard, trying, hard to bear.

~Affliction~, _n._ ~1.~ Calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune.

~2.~ Grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart.

~Afflictive~, _a._ AFFLICTING.

~Affluence~, _n._ Wealth, riches, opulence, fortune, plenty, abundance, exuberance, ample store, ample means.

~Affluent~, _a._ ~1.~ Abundant, exuberant.

~2.~ Opulent, wealthy, rich, moneyed.

~Afford~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Supply, furnish, yield, produce.

~2.~ Confer, impart, grant, bestow, offer, lend, give, communicate, spare.

~3.~ Bear the cost or expense of.

~Affray~, _n._ Brawl (_in a public place_), quarrel, feud, squabble, wrangle, contest, altercation, strife, row, fray, broil, fight, MÉLÉE, tumult, disturbance, outbreak, RUMPUS, breach of the peace.

~Affright~, _v. a._ Frighten, terrify, alarm, scare, daunt, appall, dismay, fright, intimidate, startle, overawe, put in fear.

~Affright~, _n._ Terror, fear, fright, alarm, dismay, consternation, panic.

~Affront~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Insult, abuse, outrage.

~2.~ Offend, displease, irritate, provoke, chafe, fret, vex, annoy, pique, nettle, anger, gall, MIFF, give offence to, make angry.

~Affront~, _n._ ~1.~ Insult, abuse, contumely, indignity, outrage, injury, wrong, ill-treatment, ill-turn.

~2.~ Provocation, offence.

~Affusion~, _n._ Sprinkling.

~Afoot~, _ad._ ~1.~ On foot.

~2.~ Preparing, forthcoming, in preparation, in course of preparation, on the carpet, ON THE TAPIS, on the anvil.

~Aforementioned~, _a._ AFORESAID.

~Aforesaid~, _a._ Said before, aforementioned, before-mentioned, fore- named, above-mentioned, above-named.

~Aforethought~, _a._ Premeditated, prepense.

~A fortiori~, [L.] With stronger reason, for a still stronger reason.

~Afraid~, _a._ Fearful, haunted with fear.

~Afresh~, _ad._ Anew, newly, again, over again, DE NOVO.

~Aft~, _ad._ (_Naut._) Abaft, astern, behind, back, rearward, in the rear.

~After~, _prep._ ~1.~ Subsequent to, later than.

~2.~ Following, behind.

~3.~ About, in relation to.

~4.~ In imitation of.

~After~, _ad._ Afterward.

~After~, _a._ ~1.~ Succeeding, subsequent, following, later.

~2.~ Hind, hinder, posterior, rear, back.

~After-ages~, Posterity, descendants, succeeding times, succeeding generations.

~After all~, Eventually, ultimately, upon the whole, when all has been considered, at last, in the end.

~After-birth~, _n._ Secundines, placenta.

~After-math~, _n._ Rowen, eddish.

~Aftermost~, _a._ Hindmost.

~Afterpiece~, _n._ Farce, low comedy.

~After-thought~, _n._ After-wit.

~Afterward~, _ad._ Subsequently, after, later, thereafter, in the sequel.

~Afterwards~, _ad._ Subsequently, after, later, thereafter, in the sequel.

~After-wit~, _n._ After-thought.

~Again~, _ad._ Afresh, anew, once more, another time, DE NOVO.

~Again and again~, Repeatedly, often, frequently, over and over, with frequent repetitions.

~Against~, _prep._ ~1.~ Opposed to, in opposition to, contrary to, adverse to.

~2.~ Facing, fronting, off, opposite to, over against.

~3.~ In provision for, in expectation of, in preparation for, in anticipation of.

~Against the grain~, ~1.~ Against the fibres (_of wood_).

~2.~ Against the natural disposition, against one's inclination.

~Agalloch~, _n._ Lign-aloes, aloes wood.

~Agallochum~, _n._ Lign-aloes, aloes wood.

~Agapæ~, _n. pl._ [L.] Love-feasts.

~Agape~, _ad._ Wondering, gazing eagerly, staring with open mouth.

~Agaric~, _n._ ~1.~ Mushroom.

~2.~ Touchwood, spunk, punk.

~Age~, _n._ ~1.~ Duration of existence.

~2.~ Period, date, epoch, time.

~3.~ Century, a hundred years.

~4.~ Old age, decline of life, vale of years.

~5.~ Maturity, mature years, years of discretion.

~Aged~, _a._ ~1.~ Old, elderly, stricken in years, advanced in life, with one foot in the grave.

~2.~ Having lived, of the age of.

~Agency~, _n._ ~1.~ Intervention, instrumentality, mediation, action, operation, force, influence, procurement.

~2.~ Charge, direction, management, superintendence, supervision.

~Agent~, _n._ ~1.~ Actor, doer, operator, performer, executor.

~2.~ Deputy, attorney, factor, representative, substitute, proxy, go- between, procurator, middleman, commissioner, vicegerent.

~3.~ Hand, employé.

~Agglomerate~, _v. a._ Gather in a ball or mass, gather together, lump together, heap up, pile up.

~Agglomeration~, _n._ Conglomeration, accumulation, lump, heap, pile, mass, aggregation.

~Agglutinate~, _v. a._ Unite, glue, cement, conglutinate.

~Agglutination~, _n._ Cohesion, union, sticking together.

~Aggrandize~, _v. a._ Exalt, dignify, honor, elevate, promote, make great, raise to higher rank.

~Aggrandizement~, _n._ Exaltation, elevation, promotion, advancement, preferment.

~Aggravate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Heighten (_in evil_), increase, make worse.

~2.~ Exaggerate, overstate, magnify.

~3.~ [_Of questionable propriety._] Provoke, irritate, exasperate, enrage.

~Aggravation~, _n._ ~1.~ A heightening (_of something evil_).

~2.~ Exaggeration.

~3.~ [_Of questionable propriety._] Provocation, irritation.

~Aggregate~, _v. a._ Amass, collect, accumulate, pile, bring together, gather up, pile up, heap up, scrape together, keep together.

~Aggregate~, _a._ Collected.

~Aggregate~, _n._ Whole, total, totality, gross, lump, sum, amount, body, mass, gross amount, sum total.

~Aggregation~, _n._ Collection, mass, pile, heap, accumulation.

~Aggress~, _v. n._ Make the first attack, be the first to attack, be the aggressor.

~Aggression~, _n._ Attack, assault, invasion, hostile encroachment.

~Aggressive~, _a._ Attacking, assaulting, assailing, assailant, invading, offensive.

~Aggressor~, _n._ Assailant, assaulter, attacker, assailer, invader.

~Aggrieve~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Pain, grieve, afflict, wound the feelings of.

~2.~ Wrong, injure, oppress, maltreat, abuse, bear hard upon, ill treat, ill use.

~Aghast~, _a._ ~1.~ Awe-struck, horror-struck, dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, struck with horror.

~2.~ Amazed, astounded, startled, astonished, dumfoundered, thunderstruck.

~Agile~, _a._ Lively, nimble, brisk, smart, active, quick, ready, prompt, alert, sprightly, lively, supple, SPRY, winged.

~Agility~, _n._ Liveliness, nimbleness, briskness, smartness, activity, quickness, readiness, alertness, sprightliness, suppleness.

~Agio~, _n._ (_Com._) Premium.

~Agiotage~, _n._ (_Com._) Stock-jobbing.

~Agitate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Shake, jar, toss, rock, trouble (_by brisk motion_), convulse.

~2.~ Excite, ruffle, rouse, ferment, stir up, work up.

~3.~ Fluster, flurry, hurry, confuse, disconcert.

~4.~ Discuss, controvert, canvass, debate, dispute, ventilate.

~Agitation~, _n._ ~1.~ Agitating, shaking, shake, concussion.

~2.~ Disturbance, jarring, commotion, convulsion, ferment, storm, tumult, turmoil.

~3.~ Excitement, emotion, perturbation, trepidation, discomposure, distraction, PUCKER, ruffle, flutter, hurry, tremor, fever, fret.

~4.~ Discussion, disputation, debate, controversy, canvassing, ventilation.

~Agitator~, _n._ Incendiary, firebrand.

~Ago~, _ad._ Past, gone, since.

~Agog~, _a._ Eager, impatient, excited, wrought up, worked up, on tiptoe, with open mouth.

~A-going~, _ad._ Abroach.

~Agonize~, _v. a._ Torment, torture, rack, distress, pain severely, put in great pain.

~Agonize~, _v. n._ Be tormented, be tortured, suffer great pain.

~Agony~, _n._ ANGUISH (_especially of the body_), pang, torture, torment, distress, rack, throe, severe pain, extreme suffering.

~Agree~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Accord, harmonize, concur, unite, be in unison, be of one mind.

~2.~ Assent, consent, accede, acquiesce, comply, subscribe, yield assent, give consent, fall in.

~3.~ Stipulate, bargain, promise, engage, undertake, contract, be sworn, be bound, make an agreement, plight one's word, pass one's word, pledge one's word, give assurance, take upon one's self, bind one's self.

~4.~ Compromise, compound, come to an understanding, come to an agreement.

~5.~ Suit, match, tally, correspond, quadrate, coincide, cohere, comport, conform, square.

~Agreeable~, _a._ ~1.~ Suitable, fitting, fit, proper, meet, appropriate, befitting, conformable, correspondent, accordant, concordant, consonant.

~2.~ Pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, grateful, gratifying, acceptable, welcome, good, goodly, delightful, charming, delectable, delicious, dulcet, sweet, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy.

~Agreeable to, 1.~ Conformable to, suitable to, accordant with, consonant with, tallying with, squaring with, consistent with, that falls in with.

~2.~ Pleasing to, grateful to, gratifying to, acceptable to.

~Agreeably to~, According to, conformably to, in accordance with.

~Agree with, 1.~ Chime in with, fall in with.

~2.~ Make a bargain with, strike hands with.

~Agriculture~, _n._ Tillage, husbandry, farming, culture, cultivation, geoponics.

~Agriculturist~, _n._ Husbandman, farmer, tiller of the ground, cultivator of the soil.

~Aground~, _ad._ ~1.~ Ashore, not afloat.

~2.~ Stranded, wrecked, cast away.

~Ague~, _n._ ~1.~ Chilliness, cold, chill.

~2.~ Intermittent fever, fever and ague.

~Ague-weed~, _n._ Thoroughwort, boneset, fever-root, Indian sage, (_Eupatorium perfoliatum_).

~Ahead~, _ad._ ~1.~ Onward, forward, in advance, in front.

~2.~ (_Naut._) In opposition (_said of the wind_), against us, in our teeth.

~Ai~, _n._ Three-toed sloth (_Bradypus tridactylus_).