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Adversary
- An enemy or opponent
- Syn: Antagonist, rival, foe
- Ant: Friend, ally, supporter, confederate
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Alienate
- To turn away, to make indiffrent or hostile, to transfer, convey
- Syn: separate, drive apart, estrang
- eAnt: Befriend, attract, captivatate
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Artiface
- a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery
- Syn: Ruse, stratagem, contrivance
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Coerce
- to compel, force
- Syn: Pressure, bully, intimidate, constrain
- Ant: Persuade, cajole
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Craven
- cowardly; a coward
- Syn: Fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous
- Ant: Brave, courageous, valiant
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Culinary
Of or related to cooking or the kitchen
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Demise
- a death, especially of a person in a lofty position
- Syn: Decrease, passing away
- Ant: Birth, beginning, commencement
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Exhilarate
- to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to
- Syn: Stimulate, excite, gladden
- Ant: Discourage, dispirit, dishearten, inhibit
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Fallow
- plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow
- Syn: Unproductive, inert, dormant
- Ant: Productive, fertile, prolific
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Harass
- to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks
- Syn: Annoy, pester, bedevil, beleaguer
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inclement
- stormy,harsh; severe in attitude or action
- Syn: Blustery, tempestuous, implacable
- Ant: Mild, gentle, balmy, tranquil
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Muse
- to think about in a dreamy way, ponder
- Syn: Mediate, contemplate, daydream
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liquidate
- to pay a debt, settle an account, to eliminate
- syn: reconcile
- ant: invest, collect
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Negligible
- so unimportant that it can be disregarded
- Syn: Trivial, inconsequential, insignificant
- Ant: Significant, crucial, momentous
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Perpetuate
- to make permenant or long lasting
- Syn: Continue, preserve, prolong indefinitely
- Ant: Discontinue, abolish, abandon
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Precedent
- An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
- Syn: Guide, tradition, model
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Punitive
- inflicting or aiming at punishment
- Syn: Penalizing, retaliatory
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Redress
- to set right, remedy; relief from wrong or injury
- Syn: Rectify, correct, mitigate
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Sojurn
- a temporary stay, to stay for a time
- Syn: Visit, stopover, brief stay
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Urbane
- refined in a manner or style, suave
- Syn: Elegant
- Ant: Crude, uncouth, boorish
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