English Synonyms and Antonyms

 right is that which one may properly demand upon considerations of justice, morality, equity, or of natural
or positive law. A right may be either general or special, natural or artificial. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness" are the natural and inalienable rights of all men; rights of property, inheritance, etc., are individual
and special, and often artificial, as the right of inheritance by primogeniture. A privilege is always special,
exceptional, and artificial; it is something not enjoyed by all, or only to be enjoyed on certain special
conditions, a peculiar benefit, favor, advantage, etc. A privilege may be of doing or avoiding; in the latter case
it is an exemption or immunity; as, a privilege of hunting or fishing; exemption from military service;
immunity from arrest. A franchise is a specific right or privilege granted by the government or established as
such by governmental authority; as, the elective franchise; a railroad franchise. A prerogative is an official
right or privilege, especially one inherent in the royal or sovereign power; in a wider sense it is an exclusive
and peculiar privilege which one possesses by reason of being what he is; as, reason is the prerogative of man;
kings and nobles have often claimed prerogatives and privileges opposed to the inherent rights of the people.
Compare DUTY; JUSTICE.
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RISE.
Synonyms:
arise, ascend, emanate, flow, issue, proceed, spring.
To rise is to move up or upward whether slowly or quickly, whether through the least or greatest distance; the
waves rise; the mists rise; the river rises after heavy rains; as said of persons, to rise is to come to an erect
position after kneeling, sitting, reclining, or lying down; as, to rise from a sick-bed; my friend rose as I
entered; the guests rose to depart; so a deliberative assembly or a committee is said to rise when it breaks up a
session; a sun or star rises when to our apprehension it comes above the horizon and begins to go up the sky.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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To ascend is to go far upward, and is often used in a stately sense; as, Christ ascended to heaven. The shorter
form rise is now generally preferred to the longer form arise, except in poetic or elevated style. The sun rises
or arises; the river springs at a bound from the foot of the glacier and flows through the lands to the ocean.
Smoke issues from a chimney and ascends toward the sky. Light and heat emanate from the sun.
Antonyms:
decline, descend, drop, fall, go down, set, settle, sink.
Prepositions:
Rise from slumber; rise to duty; rise at the summons; we rose with the lark.
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ROBBER.
Synonyms:
bandit, depredator, freebooter, pirate, brigand, despoiler, highwayman, plunderer, buccaneer, footpad,
marauder, raider, burglar, forager, pillager, thief.
A robber seeks to obtain the property of others by force or intimidation; a thief by stealth and secrecy. In early
English thief was freely used in both senses, as in Shakespeare and the Authorized Version of the English
Bible, which has "two thieves" (Matt. xxvii, 38), where the Revised Version more correctly substitutes "two
robbers."
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ROYAL.
Synonyms:
august, kingly, majestic, princely, kinglike, magnificent, munificent, regal.
Royal denotes that which actually belongs or pertains to a monarch; the royal residence is that which the king
occupies, royal raiment that which the king wears. Regal denotes that which in outward state is appropriate
for a king; a subject may assume regal magnificence in residence, dress, and equipage. Kingly denotes that
which is worthy of a king in personal qualities, especially of character and conduct; as, a kingly bearing; a