English Synonyms and Antonyms

despatch is to do and be done with, to get a thing off one's hands. To despatch an enemy is to kill him outright
and quickly; to despatch a messenger is to send him in haste; to despatch a business is to bring it quickly to an
end. Despatch is commonly used of single items. To promote a cause is in any way to bring it forward,
advance it in power, prominence, etc. To speed is really to secure swiftness; to hasten is to attempt it, whether
successfully or unsuccessfully. Hurry always indicates something of confusion. The hurried man forgets
dignity, appearance, comfort, courtesy, everything but speed; he may forget something vital to the matter in
hand; yet, because reckless haste may attain the great object of speed, hurry has come to be the colloquial and
popular word for acting quickly. To facilitate is to quicken by making easy; to expedite is to quicken by
removing hindrances. A good general will improve roads to facilitate the movements of troops, hasten
supplies and perfect discipline to promote the general efficiency of the force, despatch details of business,
expedite all preparations, in order to accelerate the advance and victory of his army.
Antonyms:
check, clog, delay, drag, hinder, impede, obstruct, retard.
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QUOTE.
Synonyms:
cite, extract, plagiarize, repeat. excerpt, paraphrase, recite,
To quote is to give an author's words, either exactly, as in direct quotation, or in substance, as in indirect
quotation; to cite is, etymologically, to call up a passage, as a witness is summoned. In citing a passage its
exact location by chapter, page, or otherwise, must be given, so that it can be promptly called into evidence; in
quoting, the location may or may not be given, but the words or substance of the passage must be given. In
citing, neither the author's words nor his thought may be given, but simply the reference to the location where
they may be found. To quote, in the proper sense, is to give credit to the author whose words are employed.
To paraphrase is to state an author's thought more freely than in indirect quotation, keeping the substance of
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thought and the order of statement, but changing the language, and commonly interweaving more or less
explanatory matter as if part of the original writing. One may paraphrase a work with worthy motive for
homiletic, devotional, or other purposes (as in the metrical versions of the Psalms), or he may plagiarize
atrociously in the form of paraphrase, appropriating all that is valuable in another's thought, with the hope of
escaping detection by change of phrase. To plagiarize is to quote without credit, appropriating another's words
or thought as one's own. To recite or repeat is usually to quote orally, tho recite is applied in legal phrase to a
particular statement of facts which is not a quotation; a kindred use obtains in ordinary speech; as, to recite
one's misfortunes.
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RACY.
Synonyms:
flavorous, lively, pungent, spicy, forcible, piquant, rich, spirited.
Racy applies in the first instance to the pleasing flavor characteristic of certain wines, often attributed to the
soil from which they come. Pungent denotes something sharply irritating to the organs of taste or smell, as
pepper, vinegar, ammonia; piquant denotes a quality similar in kind to pungent but less in degree, stimulating
and agreeable; pungent spices may be deftly compounded into a piquant sauce. As applied to literary
products, racy refers to that which has a striking, vigorous, pleasing originality; spicy to that which is
stimulating to the mental taste, as spice is to the physical; piquant and pungent in their figurative use keep
very close to their literal sense.
Antonyms:
cold, flat, insipid, stale, tasteless, dull, flavorless, prosy, stupid, vapid.
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RADICAL.
Synonyms:
complete, ingrained, perfect, constitutional, innate, positive, entire, native, primitive, essential, natural,
thorough, extreme, organic, thoroughgoing, fundamental, original, total.
The widely divergent senses in which the word radical is used, by which it can be at some time interchanged
with any word in the above list, are all formed upon the one primary sense of having to do with or proceeding
from the root (L. radix); a radical difference is one that springs from the root, and is thus constitutional,