282. reticent
adjective
T.E. Lawrence became an increasingly reticent man: taciturn, quiet, uncommu-nicative, silent, sparing of words, close-mouthed, tight-lipped; reserved, retiring, shy, withdrawn, diffident, self-contained, restrained, subdued, closed.
—Antonyms
voluble, talkative, communicative, unreserved, expansive, inclined to speak freely, candid, frank, open, plain.
283. reverence
noun
Aeneas' reverence toward his father was one of our Latin teacher's favorite themes: deep respect, esteem, regard, honor, homage, deference, veneration, admiration, adoration, devotion, worship; awe, fear; devoutness, piety, gesture indicative of deep respect, observance; genuflection, prostration, religiosity.
—Antonyms
irreverence, disrespect, disregard, scorn, contempt, dishonor; hatred.
284.sage
noun
1 The king brought difficult problems to a sage: wise man, magus, pundit, mage, philosopher, savant, scholar, guru, mandarin, solon, Slang egghead.
adjective
2 He was sage in his judgment: wise, sapient, shrewd, prudent; sensible, sound, sagacious, knowing, astute, intelligent.
—Antonyms
1 fool, idiot.
2 stupid, foolish, senseless.
285. salubrious
adjective
Regular exercise is salubrious: healthful, healthy, health-promoting, therapeutic, good for one, salutary, bracing, beneficial, wholesome, lifegiving, invigorating.
—Antonyms
unhealthful, unhealthy, harmful, unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious.
286. sanction
noun
1 We received sanction to proceed with our plans: approval, commendation, endorsement, assent, consent, permission, authorization; leave, liberty, license, authority; ratification, confirmation, support.
2 The international community imposed sanctions on Rhodesia for its illegal political actions: penalty, pressure, punitive measure, coercion.
verb
3 Our plan wasn't sanctioned by the board of directors: approve, endorse, authorize, legitimate, allow, permit, countenance, accept, agree to, favor, ratify, support.
—Antonyms
1 disapproval, forbiddance, refusal, ban, prohibition.
2 incentive, encouragement.
3 disapprove, reject, ban, prohibit.
287. satiate
verb
It was a banquet that more than satiated our need for food: satisfy, fill, gratify, suffice, content; slake, quench; glut, stuff, sate, surfeit, overfill, overdo, cloy, saturate; sicken, disgust, nauseate; jade, bore, weary.
288. saturate
verb
1 Heavy rain saturated the playing field: soak thoroughly, drench, souse, douse; immerse, submerge.
2 Dust saturated the attic: fill, infiltrate, cover, permeate, infuse, suffuse, pervade, impregnate, imbue.
—Antonyms
1 drain, dry.
289. savor
noun
1 This cake has the savor of nutmeg: taste, flavor, tang, spice, piquancy, pungency; smell, aroma, odor, scent, fragrance; smack, relish, zest.
2 His words had the savor of vengeance: character, nature, particular quality, characteristic, property, particularity, distinctive feature, peculiarity, trait, aura, quality; substance, essence, gist, spirit, soul.
verb
3 Her sauce savored of garlic. This plan savors of treason: taste, smell, smack, have a touch, show traces, have the earmarks, be suggestive.
4 He savored the cookies with cinnamon: spice, season, flavor.
5 We ate the stew slowly, savoring it: enjoy, relish, like; take pleasure in, delight in, luxuriate in, rejoice in, appreciate.
6 He had savored power during his first term in office: experience, taste, sample, try.
290. secrete
verb
The escaped convicts secreted themselves in a cave: hide, conceal, cache, Informal stash; cloak, curtain, screen, veil, disguise; keep secret, keep under wraps, cover, shroud.
—Antonyms
reveal, show, display, exhibit.
291. shard (shärd) also sherd, n.
1. a fragment, esp. of broken earthenware.
2. Zool.
a. a scale.
b. a shell, as of an egg or snail.
c. the hardened forewing of a beetle; elytron.
292. skeptic or sceptic
noun
He's too much of a skeptic to take anything simply on faith: doubter, doubting Thomas, questioner, scoffer; agnostic, unbeliever, atheist.
293. solicitous
adjective
1 He was very solicitous about her office problems: concerned, thoughtful, mindful, regardful, anxious, attentive.
2 The politicians do not seem overly solicitous to proceed in this investigation: eager, zealous, desirous, longing, ardent, intense, keen, avid, enthusiastic, intent.
—Antonyms
1 unconcerned, undisturbed.
2 uninterested, unambitious, unenthusiastic.
294. soporific
adjective
1 His soporific voice almost put us to sleep: hypnotic, somniferous, sleep-inducing, balmy, sluggish, heavy.
2 This warm weather makes me soporific: sleepy, sluggish, drowsy, somnolent, slumberous; lethargic, lazy.
noun
3 Wine is a soporific for me: sedative, hypnotic; sleep-inducer.
—Antonyms
1,2 lively, animated.
3 stimulant.
295. specious
adjective
He reached the wrong conclusion by specious reasoning: deceptive, misleading, fallacious, questionable, casuistic, dubious, false, invalid, faulty, sophistical, unsubstantiated, unsound, unfounded, incorrect, inaccurate, slippery, tricky, untrue, spurious, illogical.
—Antonyms
valid, conclusive, undeniable, inescapable.
296. spec•trum (spek"tr*m), n., pl. -tra (-tr*), -trums.
1. a. an array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property, as wavelength or mass. 296. spec•trum (spek"tr*m), n., pl. -tra (-tr*), -trums.
b. the band or series of colors, together with invisible extensions, produced by dispersion of radiant energy, as by a prism.
2. a broad range of varied but related ideas, objects, etc., that form a continuous series or sequence: the spectrum of political beliefs.
297. sporadic
adjective
We've had only sporadic snow flurries this month: irregular, spotty, scattered, sparse, spasmodic, fitful, widely spaced, now and then, occasional, infrequent, periodic, fragmentary, intermittent, discontinuous, few and far between, meager, few, thin, scarce, rare, isolated, uncommon; haphazard, random.
—Antonyms
continuous, regular, steady, constant.
298. stigma
noun
There was no stigma attached to losing the election: disgrace, shame, odium, dishonor; blot, blemish, brand, flaw, mark of shame, smirch, smudge, besmirchment, taint, tarnish.
—Antonyms
glory, honor, distinction, credit, approval.
299. stint
verb
1 I'll have to stint my charity gifts this year: restrict, set limits to, give in small amounts, limit, cut down on, reduce, be sparing with, restrain, constrain, circumscribe, check, curb.
2 One thing Mother never stints on is food: be sparing, hold back, scrimp, be frugal, save, deny oneself, economize, pinch pennies, withhold, be parsimonious.
noun
3 She was assigned the most difficult stint. The band did a stint in Las Vegas: job, chore, task, duty, work period, term, assignment, part, turn, shift, quota; engagement.
300. stipulate
verb
Our contract with the decorator stipulates the maximum amount he can charge us: specify, set forth, insist upon, state, designate, indicate, name, cite, make a point of, make provision; promise, pledge, guarantee, insure, grant, provide, allow, assure, agree, warrant.
301. stolid
adjective
He's too stolid to show excitement about anything: impassive, unemotional, apathetic, sluggish, lethargic, phlegmatic, dull, obtuse, lumpish, bovine, dense; insensitive.
—Antonyms
excitable, emotional, passionate, energetic, lively, active, animated, acute.
302. strait (strat), n.
1. Often, straits. (used with a sing. v.) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
2. Often, straits. a position of difficulty, distress, or need.
3. Archaic. a narrow passage or area.
4. ISTHMUS.
adj. Archaic.
5. narrow.
6. confined in area.
7. strict, as in requirements or principles.
303.strut
verb
He strutted into the restaurant as though he owned it: swagger, walk pompously, parade, sail, sashay, peacock, promenade.
—Antonyms
sub•poe•na or sub•pe•na (s* pe"n*, s*b-), n., pl. -nas, v., -naed, -na•ing. Law.
n.
1. a writ to summon witnesses or evidence before a court.
v.t.
2. to serve with a subpoena
305.subside
verb
1 As the land subsides, the sea advances: settle, sink; drop, cave in, sag, descend.
2 My nervousness subsided when the plane landed. The crowds subsided: diminish, lessen, abate, decrease, wane, moderate, level off, ebb, calm, recede, melt away, let up, ease, shrink, dwindle.
—Antonyms
1,2 rise; increase, swell.
2 grow, heighten, intensify.
306.substantiate
verb
You haven't substantiated your argument at all: verify, corroborate, prove, demonstrate, show to be true, confirm, authenticate, sustain, support.
—Antonyms
disprove, refute, discredit, undermine, tear to shreds, explode
307.supersede
verb
This new drug will supersede all others in the treatment of the disease: supplant, replace, take the place of, substitute for, displace, succeed; discard, set aside.
308.supposition
noun
That was only supposition. He acted on the supposition that the public would applaud his feat: presumption, assumption, conjecture, opinion, predication, surmise, guess, guesswork, suspicion, belief, theory, thesis, notion, view, speculation, hypothesis, proposition, postulate, idea, given.
—Antonyms
certainty, surety, fact, knowledge
310.tacit
adjective
The neighbors had a tacit agreement not to park in front of each other's houses: unexpressed, understood, assumed, implied, inferred, implicit, wordless, undeclared, unspoken, unstated, taken for granted.
311. tangential
tan•gen•tial (tan jen"sh*l), adj. 311. tangential
1. pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
2. incidental; peripheral.
3. divergent or digressive: tangential remarks.
[1620–30]
tan•gen'ti•al"i•ty (-she al"i te), n.
tan•gen"tial•ly, adv.
312.tenuous
adjective 312.tenuous
Some legislators made a rather tenuous argument against the bill: weak, flimsy, shaky, unsubstantial, unsupported, slight, slim, thin, slender, frail, fragile, delicate, gossamer, shallow, paltry, unconvincing, halfhearted, uncertain, indefinite.
—Antonyms
strong, solid, valid, substantial
313.tirade
noun
The principal delivered a tirade to the disobedient students. The political candidate let loose a tirade against his opponent: long angry speech, harangue, diatribe, jeremiad, lecture, reprimand, scolding, dressing-down, screed, fulmination; denunciation, condemnation, castigation, vilification, invective, vituperation, curse.
—Antonyms
good word, short eulogy, panegyric, complimentary speech, praising speech, laudation, commendation, homage, paean.
314.torpidity
Her torpor may be due to illness: sluggishness, slow movement, inertia, lethargy, laziness, languidness, listlessness, lassitude, indolence, languor, apathy, passiveness, dullness; sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence; inactivity, inertia.
—Antonyms
energy, vigor, vim, pep, animation, liveliness, alertness; wide-awakeness
315.torturous
adjective
He had a torturous toothache. The losing candidate spent a torturous night listening to the election returns: torturing, painful, agonizing, racking, cruel, anguishing, tormenting, distressing, distressful, excruciating, miserable, harrowing, anguished, tormented, distressed, annoying, irksome, unpleasant, galling, disagreeable.
—Antonyms
painless, pleasant, pleasing, delightful, enjoyable, agreeable, welcome, comforting; gratifying; contented, cheerful, joyous, happy.
316.tractable
adjective
A dude ranch needs tractable horses for its guests: amenable, easy to manage, manageable, easy to control, controllable, governable, obedient, trainable, teachable, docile, tame, submissive, compliant, yielding.
—Antonyms
intractable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, disobedient, wild, unruly, refractory, headstrong, willful, stubborn, obstinate.
317. transgression
noun
The sinner prayed that his transgressions would be forgiven. Eavesdropping is a transgression on another's privacy: offense, sin, misdeed, evil deed, trespass, lapse, iniquity, wrongdoing, wrong, immorality, error; infraction, infringement, breach, encroachment, contravention, overstepping; violation, infraction, crime, lawbreaking.
—Antonyms
virtue, morality, probity, righteousness, grace, good deed, merit; observance, compliance, adherence.
318. truculent
adjective
His truculent nature gets him into a lot of scrapes: belligerent, bellicose, aggressive, pugnacious, hostile, defiant, fierce, nasty, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-humored, ill-natured, snarling; surly, cross, touchy, peev-ish, snappish, petulant, sour, ungracious, churl-ish, sulky, insolent, rude.
—Antonyms
peaceful, gentle, kind, diffident, accommodating, friendly, gracious, amiable, affable.
319. vacillate
verb
1 He seemed certain about it yesterday, but today he's vacillating: waver, be irresolute, hesitate, be unsettled, be doubtful, be changeable, fluctuate, falter, not know one's own mind, shilly-shally, hem and haw, blow hot and cold.
2 The earthquake caused the entire house to vacillate: sway, move to and fro, rock, roll, toss, pitch, shift, waver, totter, teeter, reel, oscillate, wobble, flutter, vibrate.
—Antonyms 1 be determined, be resolute, be steadfast, be certain, be settled.
320. venerate
verb
As a child he venerated his grandparents: revere, esteem, respect, honor, admire, idolize, adore, cherish, extol, glorify, look up to, treat with deference, pay homage to, reverence, worship, hallow.
—Antonyms
scorn, disdain, contemn, despise, detest, hate, execrate, dishonor; disregard, slight, spurn.
321. veracious
adjective
The veracious reporter was a stickler for detail: honest, truthful, accurate, dependable, faithful, genuine, reliable, trustworthy, straightforward.
322. verbose
adjective
The senator is so verbose it takes him an hour to tell a simple joke: wordy, longwinded, voluble, circumlocutory, effusive, grandiloquent, prolix, talkative, garrulous, gabby, loquacious.
—Antonyms
terse, concise, succinct, pithy; reticent, curt, brusque.
323. viable
adjective
1 The fetus is considered viable at six months. No crops are viable in this barren soil: capable of independent life, able to live, able to develop, able to thrive, capable of growing.
2 If the plan doesn't succeed do you have a viable alternative?: workable, practical, practicable, feasible, usable, applicable, adaptable.
—Antonyms
1,2 nonviable.
2 unviable, impractical, useless, unworkable, unusable.
324. viscous
adjective Molasses is a liquid, but an extremely viscous one: thick, viscid, sticky, gluey, syrupy, tacky, slimy, gummy, glutinous, Informal gooey.
325. vituperation
noun
Her simple mistake hardly merited so much vituperation: abuse, faultfinding, invective, scolding, denunciation, censure, blame, tongue-lashing, revilement, obloquy, scurrility, castigation, tirade, calumniation.
—Antonyms
praise, acclaim, adulation, flattery.
326. volatile
adjective
1 Volatile liquids must be kept in very tightly closed containers: evaporating quickly, evaporable, vaporizing, vaporous; gaseous.
2 The situation in the Middle East is volatile: explosive, eruptive; unstable, unsettled.
3 Richard is too volatile to stick with one job very long: changeable, erratic, unstable, variable, unsteady, irresolute, fitful, spasmodic, unpredictable, undependable, inconstant, capricious, mercurial, temperamental, moody, fickle, flighty, giddy, frivolous; brash, reckless, wild, rash.
—Antonyms
1,2,3 stable.
2 calm, peaceful.
3 constant, consistent, steady, even-tempered, dependable, resolute, determined, coolheaded, self-controlled, serious, sober.
327. warrant
noun
1 The police have a search warrant. There is a warrant out for the suspect's arrest: authorization, permission, permit; license.
verb
2 Such actions warrant a severe reprimand: justify, provide grounds for, give sufficient reason for; permit, authorize, license.
3 The manufacturer warrants that all parts are new: guarantee, certify, vouch for, pledge, swear, attest, affirm, promise, vow, avow, assure, assert, declare, asseverate, aver.
328. wary
adjective
It does no harm to be wary of new acquaintances: cautious, careful, guarded, suspicious, chary, heedful, mindful, watchful, vigilant, on one's guard, alert, wakeful, wide-awake; discreet, circumspect, close-mouthed, prudent.
—Antonyms
unwary, unsuspecting, unguarded, rash, reckless, foolhardy, careless, heedless, incautious; negligent, remiss.
329. welter
verb
1 The huge waves weltered throughout the night. The dog weltered happily in the muddy puddle: roll, toss, heave, writhe; wallow, grovel, tumble about.
noun
2 Sort this welter of dirty clothes for the laundry: jumble, mass, heap, mess, pile, hodgepodge.
3 It's hard to hear above the welter of street noises: confusion, tumult, commotion, turmoil, hubbub, racket, bustle; turbulence, storm, tempest.
330. whimsical
adjective
1 Jerry is much too whimsical to be a businessman: fanciful, capricious, notional, eccentric, quixotic; fickle, fitful, inconsist-ent, erratic, changeable, chimerical.
2 Her essay on the care and feeding of husbands is pleasantly whimsical: droll, amusing, waggish, fanciful, quaint.
—Antonyms
1 staid, serious, sedate, sober, practical, down-to-earth, pragmatic, matter-of-fact; steady, consistent.
331. zealot
noun
1 It takes a real zealot to be a top-notch car salesman: believer, enthusiast, partisan, champion, devotee, fan, buff; go-getter, pusher, hustler, live wire, eager beaver.
2 Religious zealots wanted the entire population to wear sackcloth and ashes: fanatic, true believer, obsessed person, bigot, extremist, crank, crackpot, nut
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