Question | Answer |
to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly to remind a duty
Synonym: warn, call on the carpet
Antonym: praise, pat on the back | admonish |
an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
Antonym: close, seal | breach |
to seize for military or official use
Synonym: take over, requisition, expropriate | commandeer |
a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman | brigand |
careful, cautious
Synonym: wary, prudent, guarded
Antonym: incautious, rash, reckless, heedless | circumspect |
clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving
Synonym: undwieldly, ponderous
Antonym: manageable, easy to handle | cumbersome |
a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions
Synonym: standoff, stalemate, impasse
Antonym: agreement, accord, break-through | deadlock |
scattered fragments, wreckage
Synonym: rubble detritus, flotsam and jetsam | debris |
to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
Synonym: blot out, erase, obliterate, expurge | debris |
to spread or scatter freely or widely
Synonym: disperse
Antonym: concentrate | diffuse |
a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
Synonym: predicament, quandry, pickle, bind
Antonym: cinch | dilemma |
to make a mess of
Synonym: jumble, messup
Antonym: orderliness, tidiness, neatness | muddle |
enduring, everlasting, long lasting
Synonym: forever, infinity
Antonym: no-time, never | muddle |
to incline to beforehand
Synonym: make susceptible to
Antonym: immunize against, shield from | predispose |
stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
Synonym: obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible
Antonym: open-minded, reasonable | opinionated |
to let go, give up
Synonym: surrender, abandon
Antonym: hold on to, keep, retain, cling to | relinquish |
to save from fire or shipwreck
Synonym: rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim
Antonym: abandon, scrap, junk | perennial |
not genuine, not true, not valid | spurious |
sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
Synonym: irregular, occasional
Antonym: steady, continuous, chronic | spasmodic |
uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
Synonym: unrestrained, unchecked
Antonym: restrained, held in check, muted | unbridled |