Inhibit, dissuade

collector, employee, refuse collector;

grisly; (adj, v) dread. ANTONYMS:

driver: (n) drive, carter, chauffeur,

(v) scavenger, sweep; (adj) drab

(adj) wonderful, great, lovely,

conductor, device driver, cabman,

duty: (n) function, commitment,

fantastic, marvelous, admirable,

drayman, teamster, wagoner,

obligation, chore, assignment, office,

successful, nice, joyous, honorable,

charioteer, Jehu. ANTONYM: (n)

dues, job, responsibility, must; (n, v)

fair

nondriver

charge. ANTONYMS: (n)

dreading: (adj) anxious

driving: (adj) energetic, impulsive,

disobedience, option

dream: (n) aspiration, ambition,

enterprising, pushing, vigorous; (n)

dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside,

reverie, desire, fantasy, figment,

drive, travel, drove, direction,

bide, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy,

nightmare; (n, v) vision, sleep; (v)

motoring, push. ANTONYMS: (adj)

continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v)

muse, imagine. ANTONYMS: (n)

lethargic, weak, light

wander

alertness, nightmare

drop: (n, v) decline, dribble, deposit,

each: (adv) apiece, either,

dreamy: (adj) faraway, romantic,

decrease, jump, ebb; (adj, n, v)

individually; (adj) every, various,

impractical, somnolent, visionary,

collapse; (v) droop, sink, cast, drip.

singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone,

sleepy, pensive, moony, idealistic,

ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase; (v) lift,

an, anybody, everyone

drowsy; (v) balmy. ANTONYMS:

pour, sharpen, raise, recuperate; (n)

eagerly: (adv) zealously, readily,

(adj) cynical, vigorous, pragmatic,

growth, mass, lot, upswing,

keenly, fervently, avidly, greedily,

practical, awake, alert, ordinary,

elevation

enthusiastically, intently, earnestly,

prosaic

dropped: (adj) dropping, fallen,

impatiently, actively. ANTONYMS:

drearily: (adv) dismally, sadly, dully,

decreased, drop, fall, degraded,

(adv) apathetically, nonchalantly,

melancholy, tediously, boringly,

dead, born, abandoned

grudgingly, patiently, halfheartedly,

bleakly, grimly, gloomily,

dropping: (adj) dropped, down,

reluctantly, unenthusiastically

uninterestingly, monotonously.

fatigued, plunging, plummeting,

early: (adv) betimes, soon; (adj)

ANTONYMS: (adv) interestingly,

dipping; (n) sagging, reducing,

initial, primitive, young, prompt,

cheerfully

sinking, dropping of the launcher

first, quick; (n) beginning, morning,

dress: (n, v) attire, costume, clothe,

stages, dispatching

prior. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) late,

apparel, clothing, array, trim, garb,

drops: (n) tear

later; (adj) delayed, slow, tardy,

rig, cover; (n) dressing.

drudge: (n, v) slave, work; (v) toil,

conclusive, latter, middle; (adv)

ANTONYMS: (n, v) undress; (v)

fag, moil, dig, grub, sweat, plod,

belatedly, tardily, expectedly

uncover, disrobe, rumple, strip,

grind; (n) hack. ANTONYMS: (v)

earn: (v) acquire, deserve, get, attain,

wrinkle

dawdle, putter, loaf, idle, lounge

win, bring in, bring, achieve, bear,

dressed: (adj) attired, clad, garbed,

drugged: (adj) stoned, drowsy,

merit, yield. ANTONYMS: (v)

appareled, spruced up, spiffed up,

narcotised, comatose, drunk, high,

spend, cost, scatter

covered, polished, garmented; (v)

chloroformed, narcotized, stupefied.

earned: (adj) deserved, realized, due

clothed, habited

ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, straight

earnest: (adj, v) devout; (adj) eager,

dressing: (n) bandage, stuffing,

drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto,

solemn, heartfelt, diligent, studious,

fertilization, binding, bandaging,

drunken, inebriated; (adj, n)

sincere, intense, ardent, staid; (n)

scolding, fertilizer, manure,

inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac,

guarantee. ANTONYMS: (adj)

compress, preparation, farce

drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS:

flippant, halfhearted, uncertain,

drifting: (adj, adv) aimless,

(adj) straight, clearheaded; (n)

insincere, unimportant, nonchalant,

wandering; (adv) adrift; (adj)

teetotaler

lethargic, apathetic, unenthusiastic,

floating, nomadic, vagabond,

duchess: (n) princess, queen, lady,

indifferent, frivolous

rootless, roaming, wayfaring,

czarina, begum, margravine,

earning: (n) proceeds; (v) get

migratory; (n) running with the

noblewoman, peeress, marchioness,

ears: (n) antenna

regulator closed. ANTONYM: (adj)

sultana, infanta

earth: (n) world, dust, ground, land,

resident

dungeon: (n, v) keep; (n) prison, cell,

lair, dry land, terra firma, clay,

drink: (n, v) beverage, draught,

jail, penitentiary, fastness, oubliette,

creation, ball, country

swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion,

Bastille, bridewell, detention, house

ease: (v) alleviate, assuage, relieve,

intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib,

of correction

allay; (n) convenience, rest, leisure,

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relief, satisfaction; (adj, v) facilitate;

program, applications programme,

electric: (n) electricity; (adj) exciting,

(n, v) relax. ANTONYMS: (n)

editor program

electrical, galvanic, emotional, hasty,

discomfort, formality,

educated: (adj, v) erudite, lettered;

stimulating, restless; (v) eagle

awkwardness, worry, toil, problem,

(adj) learned, enlightened, trained,

winged, telegraphic; (adj, v)

pain, maladroitness; (v) aggravate,

refined, informed, taught,

mercurial. ANTONYMS: (adj)

worsen, impede

cultivated, intellectual; (v)

boring, uncharged, unexciting

eased: (adj) relieved, mitigated,

instructed. ANTONYMS: (adj)

elegant: (adj) delicate, courtly,

cloaked, palliate, disguised

uneducated, ignorant, naive,

splendid, dainty, beautiful, polite,

easily: (adv) lightly, smoothly,

illiterate, uncouth, uninformed,

refined, dressy, debonair, chic, neat.

facilely, fluently, readily, plainly,

unlearned, wild

ANTONYMS: (adj) scruffy, clumsy,

comfortably, uncomplicatedly,

education: (n) discipline, instruction,

inelegant, plain, tacky, coarse,

calmly, slowly, conveniently.

teaching, cultivation, breeding,

unsophisticated, unrefined, shabby,

ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly,

school, culture, nurture, knowledge,

crude, vigorous

unquestionably, laboriously,

background, learning. ANTONYM:

elegantly: (adv) exquisitely,

difficultly, barely, arduously,

(n) illiteracy

tastefully, genteelly, neatly,

affectedly, inconveniently, seriously,

effect: (n, prep) consequence; (v)

delicately, handsomely, finely,

formally

accomplish, achieve, bring about,

stylishly, refinedly, polishedly,

east: (n) orient, e, Levant, easting,

create, complete, cause, do; (n)

beautifully. ANTONYMS: (adv)

east side, EST, cardinal compass

product, sequel; (n, v) result.

coarsely, clumsily, tastelessly,

point; (adj) eastern; (adv) eastwards.

ANTONYMS: (n) reason, cause; (v)

untidily, awkwardly, vigorously

ANTONYM: (adj) west