1000 SYNONYMS

N

Nimble : thin, slim, lank, active, smart, prompt, slender

Noble : aristocratic, lordly

Nonsence : trash, absurdity, foolishness

Nourishing : nutritive, healthful, whole-some

Negate : deny

O

Obscene : scurrilous, indecent

Obstacle : obstruction, hindrance, hurdle,

impediment

Obstinate : pertinacious, adamant, stubborn, obdurate, recalcitrant, restive, refractory

Old : pristine, archaoic, ancient, yore,

Omnipresence : ubiquity

Obligation : duty, debt, responsibility

Observance : performance, fulfillment, regard

Oppression : persecution, injustice, cruelty, tyranny

P

Pain : pang, distress, ache, bale, dole, grief, smart, chagrin

Partial : one-sided, prejudicial, biased, favourite, favourable

Peace : tranquility, lull, calm, quietness, serenity, placidity, silence

Penance : austerity, mortification

Playful : sportive, prank, gay, gameful

Poignant : sharp, acute, piercing, keen, trenchant, mordant, slashing

Pollution : define, depravity, corruption, adulterating,

vitation, contamination, outraging,

deflowering, degeneration,

demoralization, debasement

Prasie : admiration, appreciation, commendation,

applause, landation, extolment

Prayer : request, beseeching, solicitation,

supplication, entreaty, imploring, orison

Prediction : forecast, prophecy, foretelling,

prognostication, vati-cination,

soothsaying, presageing, augury,

divination

Pride : conceit, vanity, ego, arrogance

Prize : reward, guerdon, meed

Profit : advantange, emoluments, dividends,

accruement, benefit

Purity : chastity, holiness, sacredness, piousness, sanctity, piety

Panacea : cure, remedy, medicine

Pardox : contradiction, enigma

Paucity : rarity, scantiness, lack, shortage

Peak : top, acme, zenith, height, pinnacle,

summit

Peculiar : special, particular, singular

Penalty : punishment, fine, amercement,

chastisement, castigation

Penury : poverty, indigence, destitution

Perfume : smell, redolence, fragrance, scent, odor,

aroma, balminess

Perfection : consummation, completion, wholeness, faultiness

Perplexity : confusion, complication, intricacy,

complexity, bewilderment, predicament,

muddle, mess, puzzle, quandary

Pestilence : plague, contagion, pest, epidemic

Pity : compassion, mercy, commiseration,

sympathy, kindness

Pomp : show, ostentation, display, parade,

splendor

Power : potency, force, might, strength, ability, energy, capacity, competency, capability

Presumption : assumption, surmise, opinion, hypothesis

Preface : prelude, introduction, foreword, prologue,

preamble, exordium

Priest : parson, clergyman, divine, pastor,

minister, cleric, rector, churchman

Q

Quality : characteristic, property, feature, trait, nature, attribute

Quandary : dilemma, predicament, plight,

bewilderment, perplenity straight, puzzle

Quarrel : squabble, dispute, hostility, feud, fray

Quintessence : essence, pith, substance, extract

Quotation : extract, excerpt, reference, citation

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