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Unit 14: Synonyms and Antonyms

58. Equilibrium — equipoise, balance, steadiness, poise. Notes
59. Extensive — far-ranging, far-flying, far-reaching, far-stretching, vast.
60. Enormous — immense, vast, colossal, monumental.
61. Ending — final, terminal, last, ultimate, extreme, polar, conclusive, crowning.
62. Ecclesiastical — ecclesiastic, churchly, theocratic, heavenly.
63. Endorse — legislate, pass, enact, ordain, en-force, agree.
64. Enrage — upset, discompose, ruffle, irritate, annoy, vex, anger.
65. Erotic — aphrodisiac, erotogenic, amatory.
66. Excellent — overwhelming, awesome, awe-inspiring, breath-taking.
67. Enchant — fascinate, bewitch, captivate, enrapture.
68. Earnest — serious, solemn, impressive.
69. Elevation — eminence, loftiness, sublimity, height, zenith, culmination.
70. Eccentricity — informality, anomaly, peculiarity, exception.
71. Effulgence — arrogance, haughtiness, shamelessness.
72. Extempore — at once, on the spur of the moment.
73. Fragmentary — broken, brashy, crumbly, in bits, in pieces.
74. Foreigner — alien, stranger, outlandish, expatriate.
75. First — initial, maiden, starting, natal, original.
76. Forgiving — placable, condoning, unresentful, forbearing.
77. Flatterer — sycophant, sponger, hanger-on.
78. Feelingly — unctuously, earnestly, devoutly, sincerely.
79. Fervent — fervid, passionate, intense, earnest, impassioned.
80. Fatigue — overtax, extort, suck, squeeze, grind, tiredness, exhaust
81. Fat — stout, plump, obese, chubby.
82. Frigid — cold, chilly, biting, nipping, shivering.
83. Fructify — generate, impregnate, multiply.
84. Fame — reputation, glory, renown.
85. Feeble — frail, languid, faint, weak.
86. Fickle — changeable, wavering, irresolute, unsteady, amenable.
87. Fraud — imposture, impostor, deception. duplicity.
88. Greatness — largeness, bigness, vastness, gigantism, enormousness.
89. Group — constellation, galaxy, cluster, bevy, flock, team.
90. Generalise — broaden, widen, universalise.
91. Gluttony — greediness, rapacity, insatiability, voracity, gulosity.
92. Grave — serious, sober, solemn, sedate, staid, demure, stern.
93. Given — bestowed, gifted, gratuitous, gratis.
94. Gab — jabber, chatter, prattle, twaddle.
95. Gesticulate — wink, nod, beck, nudge, gesture,
96. Grasp — hold, seize, snatch, grip, grab.
97. Generous — liberal, bountiful, magnanimous.
98. Gratitude — thankfulness, gratefulness, indebtedness.
99. Hymn — song, religious lyric, psalm, anthem, paean.
100. Heathen — amoralist, materialist, worldling, rude, barbarous.

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