English Synonyms and Antonyms

Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation
and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault;
this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives,
whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily
to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to
kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful
resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said
to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in
general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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Prepositions:
To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.
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KIN.
Synonyms:
affinity, blood, descent, kind, race, alliance, consanguinity, family, kindred, relationship. birth,
Kind is broader than kin, denoting the most general relationship, as of the whole human species in mankind,
humankind, etc.; kin and kindred denote direct relationship that can be traced through either blood or
marriage, preferably the former; either of these words may signify collectively all persons of the same blood
or members of the same family, relatives or relations. Affinity is relationship by marriage, consanguinity is
relationship by blood. There are no true antonyms of kin or kindred, except those made by negatives, since
strangers, aliens, foreigners, and foes may still be kin or kindred.
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KNOWLEDGE.
Synonyms:
acquaintance, erudition, learning, recognition, apprehension, experience, light, scholarship, cognition,
information, lore, science, cognizance, intelligence, perception, wisdom. comprehension, intuition,
Knowledge is all that the mind knows, from whatever source derived or obtained, or by whatever process; the
aggregate of facts, truths, or principles acquired or retained by the mind, including alike the intuitions native
to the mind and all that has been learned respecting phenomena, causes, laws, principles, literature, etc. There
is a tendency to regard knowledge as accurate and systematic, and to a certain degree complete. Information is
knowledge of fact, real or supposed, derived from persons, books, or observation, and is regarded as casual
and haphazard. We say of a studious man that he has a great store of knowledge, or of an intelligent man of
the world, that he has a fund of varied information. Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for
accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition. We speak
of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth. Simple perception gives a limited
knowledge of external objects, merely as such; the cognition of the same objects is a knowledge of them in
some relation; cognizance is the formal or official recognition of something as an object of knowledge; we
take cognizance of it. Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is