English Synonyms and Antonyms

beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the
drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to
avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in
such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has
created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively
called its fauna.
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Antonyms:
angel, man, mind, soul, substance (material), inanimate object, matter, mineral, spirit, vegetable.
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ANNOUNCE.
Synonyms:
advertise, give notice (of), proclaim, reveal, circulate, give out, promulgate, say, communicate, herald,
propound, spread abroad, declare, make known, publish, state, enunciate, notify, report, tell.
To announce is to give intelligence of in some formal or public way. We may announce that which has
occurred or that which is to occur, tho the word is chiefly used in the anticipative sense; we announce a book
when it is in press, a guest when he arrives. We advertise our business, communicate our intentions, enunciate
our views; we notify an individual, give notice to the public. Declare has often an authoritative force; to
declare war is to cause war to be, where before there may have been only hostilities; we say declare war,
proclaim peace. We propound a question or an argument, promulgate the views of a sect or party, or the
decision of a court, etc. We report an interview, reveal a secret, herald the coming of some distinguished
person or great event. Publish, in popular usage, is becoming closely restricted to the sense of issuing through
the press; we announce a book that is to be published.
Antonyms:
bury, cover (up), hush, keep secret, suppress, conceal, hide, keep back, secrete, withhold.
Prepositions:
The event was announced to the family by telegraph.
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ANSWER.
Synonyms:
rejoinder, repartee, reply, response, retort.
A verbal answer is a return of words to something that seems to call for them, and is made to a charge as well
as to a question; an answer may be even made to an unspoken implication or manifestation; see Luke v, 22. In
a wider sense, anything said or done in return for some word, action, or suggestion of another may be called
an answer. The blow of an enraged man, the whinny of a horse, the howling of the wind, the movement of a
bolt in a lock, an echo, etc., may each be an answer to some word or movement. A reply is an unfolding, and
ordinarily implies thought and intelligence. A rejoinder is strictly an answer to a reply, tho often used in the
general sense of answer, but always with the implication of something more or less controversial or opposed,
tho lacking the conclusiveness implied in answer; an answer, in the full sense, to a charge, an argument, or an
objection is adequate, and finally refutes and disposes of it; a reply or rejoinder may be quite inadequate, so
that one may say, "This reply is not an answer;" "I am ready with an answer" means far more than "I am
ready with a reply." A response is accordant or harmonious, designed or adapted to carry on the thought of the
words that called it forth, as the responses in a liturgical service, or to meet the wish of him who seeks it; as,
the appeal for aid met a prompt and hearty response. Repartee is a prompt, witty, and commonly good-natured
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