Impede, fail

element: (n) ingredient, constituent,

easterly: (n) Easter, levanter; (adj)

effected: (adj) completed, complete,

substance, factor, basis,

eastern; (adv) eastwards

finished, fulfilled, done, realized,

fundamental, matter, feature,

easy: (adj) convenient, gentle,

conventional, constituted,

foundation, chemical element, origin

familiar, graceful, at ease, light,

established

elementary: (adj) simple, primary,

lenient, clear, contented, cozy; (adj,

effecting: (n) accomplishment,

fundamental, primitive, basal, easy,

adv) soft. ANTONYMS: (adj)

Implementation, completing,

elemental, introductory, essential,

arduous, laborious, demanding,

finishing, fulfillment, carrying out;

main, original. ANTONYMS: (adj)

hard, strenuous, particular,

(adj) effectual

secondary, complex, hard,

burdensome, tough, uneasy,

effects: (n) goods, property, stuff,

complicated, difficult, final

awkward, testing

chattels, gear, effect, possessions,

eleven: (adj, n) xi; (n) eight, squad,

eats: (n) grub, chuck, food, meat,

personal effects, commodity,

football team, team

meal, diet, nurture, eat, dinner,

baggage, special effects

eligible: (adj) acceptable, advisable,

board, feed

effort: (n) exertion, trouble,

fit, due, adequate, desirable,

eccentric: (adj, n) odd; (adj) wacky,

application, trial, try, endeavor,

becoming, proper, able, capable,

bizarre, abnormal, crazy, strange,

struggle, drive, diligence, bid, great

admissible. ANTONYMS: (adj)

outlandish, anomalous, cranky,

effort. ANTONYMS: (n) inaction,

Ineligible, unqualified, disqualified,

erratic; (n) character. ANTONYMS:

lackadaisicalness, laziness,

unsuitable, unfit, unworthy

(adj) normal, ordinary,

negligence, lethargy

eliminate: (v) do away with, delete,

conventional, usual, concentric,

efforts: (n) pains

rid, dispel, wipe out, obliterate,

common, sane, dull, orthodox; (n)

eggs: (n) seed, ball, ballock, roe,

annihilate, cancel, eradicate,

conformer, traditionalist

bollock

extinguish, get rid of. ANTONYMS:

economic: (adj) commercial,

either: (adj) whatever; (adv) too, also,

(v) include, welcome, necessitate,

profitable, economy, financial,

neither, besides, likewise; (n) or;

choose, add, establish, insert

efficient, economical, fiscal, trade,

(det) any; (conj) other

elizabeth: (n) Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II

Industrial, mercantile, pecuniary

elation: (n) bliss, excitement, delight,

elocution: (n) delivery,

economics: (n) political economy,

euphoria, rapture, joy, happiness,

pronunciation, rhetoric, enunciation,

economy, economic science,

joyousness, high spirits,

declamation, speech, oratory,

econometrics, commerce, business,

exhilaration, exultation.

eloquence, way with words, accent,

money, finances, econometric

ANTONYMS: (n) depression,

public speaking

edge: (n, v) bound, verge, hem, skirt,

sorrow, unhappiness, misery,

elocutionary: (v) unnatural, eloquent

line; (n) boundary, margin, brink,

sadness, despair, agony, dejection,

else: (adv) besides, yet, to boot, in

blade, extremity, limit.

dislike, desolation

addition, moreover; (pron) another;

ANTONYMS: (n) center,

elbow: (n, v) poke, nudge, jolt; (n)

(n) or; (adj) different, other, further,

disadvantage, obstacle, handicap,

cubitus, elbow joint, angle,

additional

mainstream, end; (v) interior, dull,

articulation; (v) jostle, push, shove,

elsewhere: (adj, adv) away; (adj)

blunt, speed

crowd

worried, lost in thought, abroad,

edgeways: (adv) edgewise, sideways,

elderly: (adj) old, elder, senior, older,

anxious; (adv) off, otherwhere,

barely; (adj) lateral

antiquated, geriatric; (adv)

thence, somewhere. ANTONYMS:

editor: (n) publisher, redactor, writer,

superiorly, bigly, eldestly, anciently,

(adj) carefree; (adv) in

copyreader, copy editor, anthologist,

adultly. ANTONYMS: (adj)

embankment: (n) dam, bank,

edit, editor in chief, application

immature, youthful

bulwark, weir, wall, jetty, rampart,

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mound, pier, pond, fortification

hopeless, unhelpful, depressing

Saxon, limey, burgher, Jacobean,

emergency: (n) exigency, accident,

encyclopaedia: (n) cyclopaedia,

burgess

need, pinch, casualty, disaster; (adj)

cyclopedia, book of knowledge,

enjoy: (v) hold, have, relish, bask,

extra, extraordinary, provisional,

book of facts

appreciate, own, rejoice, revel, love,

temporary; (adj, n) contingency

ended: (adj) concluded, finished,

experience; (adj, v) like.

eminence: (n) distinction, elevation,

over, done, completed, closed,

ANTONYMS: (v) need, suffer,

altitude, celebrity, superiority, rank,

through, terminated, consummate,

loathe, lack, hate, detest, despise,

excellence, fame, glory, prominence,

all over; (adj, v) past

want

status. ANTONYMS: (n)

ends: (n) tops, crook, band, bend,

enjoying: (n) relish, enjoyment; (adj)

insignificance, cavity, depression,

bind, limits, clippings, curve,

comfortable, fruitive

unimportance, dip, commonness,

trimmings, boundaries

enormous: (adj) huge, big, colossal,

inferiority

endurance: (adj, n) sufferance; (n)

vast, prodigious, excessive,

emotion: (n) love, feeling, passion,

stamina, tolerance, courage,

exorbitant, great, large, tremendous,

heart, commotion, mood, pathos,

permanence, continuance, energy,

stupendous. ANTONYMS: (adj)

excitement, sensibility; (n, v)

fortitude, tenacity, duration,

small, minute, insignificant,

sensation; (v) impression.

toughness. ANTONYMS: (n)

miniature, measly, diminutive,

ANTONYMS: (n) detachment,

weakness, inconsistency,

affordable, little, slim, ordinary,

coldness, unfeelingness, calmness

impatience, frailty, discontinuation,

minor

emphasis: (n) stress, accentuation,

discontinuance, death

enormously: (adv) hugely,

importance, prominence, import,

energetic: (adj) animated, brisk, busy,

prodigiously, mightily, vastly,

vehemence, weight, intensity,

driving, dynamic, powerful, strong,

immensely, greatly, extremely,

significance, force, power

effective, agile, emphatic, forcible.

massively, infinitely; (adj, adv)

emphatically: (adv) decidedly,

ANTONYMS: (adj) sluggish, lazy,

monstrously, excessively.

definitely, positively, categorically,

weary, languid, inactive, exhausted,

ANTONYMS: (adv) mildly,

flatly, distinctly, absolutely,

indolent, apathetic, dull, indifferent,

somewhat, hardly

explicitly, forcefully, firmly,

listless

enough: (adj) ample, adequate,

expressly

energetically: (adv) vigorously,

competent, decent; (n) adequacy,

empire: (adj, n) rule, authority,

strongly, actively, briskly, lustily,

sufficiency, fill; (adv) rather, amply,

control; (n) kingdom, domain,

forcefully, lively, forcibly,

adequately; (adv, n) plenty.

realm, reign, nation, sway,

powerfully, spiritedly, strenuously.

ANTONYMS: (adj) insufficient,

command, territory

ANTONYMS: (adv) idly, quietly,

deficient, wanting, scant; (adv)

employment: (n, v) business, employ,

lifelessly, resignedly, indifferently,

insufficiently, inadequately; (n)

use, trade, calling, profession; (adj,

feebly, wearily, languorously, lazily,

insufficiency, deficiency,

n) work, career; (n) occupation,

sluggishly, passively

inadequacy, shortage

duty, service

enfeebled: (adj) infirm, enervated,

entering: (n) entry, entrance,

enable: (v) entitle, capacitate, qualify,

feeble, decrepit, crippled, old,

admission, enrollment, penetration,

authorize, license, accredit, permit,

adynamic; (adj, v) sickly, vacillating;

ingress, registration, encroachment,

let, endow, commission; (adj) able.

(v) weak, accessible

entree; (adj, n) incoming; (v) go in

ANTONYMS: (v) debilitate, disable,

engaged: (adj) occupied, betrothed,

enterprise: (n) business, company,

hinder, halt, forbid, prevent, stop,

employed, affianced, engrossed,

concern, endeavor, activity,

block, disallow, debar

reserved, absorbed, working,

adventure, energy, effort, courage,

encourage: (v) abet, advance,

pledged, involved, committed.

venture, endeavour. ANTONYMS:

comfort, urge, promote, foster,

ANTONYMS: (adj) free, unengaged,

(n) lethargy, apathy, laziness,

further, aid, boost, advocate; (adj, v)

unemployed, uncommitted,

passiveness, sloth, idleness

back. ANTONYMS: (v) dishearten,

unattached, single, detached, idle

enthusiasm: (adj, n) devotion; (n, v)

prevent, deter, hurt, obstruct, stop,

engaging: (adj, v) charming, inviting,

ardor, zeal; (adj, n, v) passion; (n)

dampen, hinder, aggravate, bully,

prepossessing; (adj) attractive,

ardour, animation, craze, ebullience,

constrain

interesting, lovable, delightful,

gusto, inspiration, interest.

encouragement: (n) aid, support,

appealing, pleasant, captivating;

ANTONYMS: (n) indifference,

promotion, backing, incentive,

(adv) engagingly. ANTONYMS:

lethargy, passivity, unwillingness,

cheer, consolation, boost, advocacy,

(adj) repulsive, loathsome, repellant,

boredom, unconcern, detachment,

fosterage, assistance. ANTONYMS:

unattractive, undesirable, unlikable,

gloom, gloominess, patience,

(n) neglect, deflation, disheartening,

dull, unpleasant, repellent

reluctance

disincentive, dissuasion, opposition,

england: (n) Britain, British, UK,

enthusiast: (n) addict, fanatic, fiend,

deterrent

United Kingdom, Albion, British

fan, admirer, freak, aficionado,

encouraging: (adj) cheering, bright,

Empire

advocate, fancier, buff; (adj, n)

promising, auspicious, comforting,

english: (n) English language,

zealot. ANTONYMS: (n) skeptic,

rosy, reassuring, favourable,

Englishwoman, Britain, Englishman,

depreciator, disparager, opponent

hortatory, hopeful, heartening.

side, the English, English people;

entire: (adj, n) absolute, complete;

ANTONYMS: (adj) upsetting,

(adj) Anglican; (v) Anglify

(adj) total, all, integral, whole, utter,

warning, disappointing,

englishman: (n) Sassenach, British,

perfect, clean, undivided, unbroken.

discouraging, negative, disturbing,

Briton, Britisher, Englander, English,

ANTONYMS: (adj) incomplete,

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limited, part, unfinished, narrow,

speculation

thorough; (n) everybody, everyone,

imperfect

esquire: (n) gentleman, Mr, Esq,

everything; (adv) apiece, either;

entirely: (adv) fully, absolutely,

scutum, scute, scutage, escutcheon,

(pron) every one

utterly, wholly, altogether, all,

scutcheon, margrave, vavasour; (v)

everybody: (adv) each, any; (n, pron)

thoroughly, perfectly, clean, solely;

escort

anyone, anybody; (n) every person,

(adj, adv) completely. ANTONYMS:

essay: (n, v) endeavor, attempt, try,

world, everything, horde, throng;

(adv) partially, incompletely,

assay, offer; (n) article, disquisition,

(pron) any person, someone.

unenthusiastically, hardly, slightly,

composition, effort, tentative; (v)

ANTONYMS: (n, pron) nobody

somewhat

strive

everyone: (n) all, everything, world,

entitled: (adj) authorized, qualified,

establish: (v) prove, demonstrate,

public; (n, pron) anyone, anybody;

authorised, eligible, competent,

constitute, build, base, appoint,

(pron) everybody, someone, a

accredited, titled, privileged,

ascertain, fix, determine; (adj, n, v)

person, any person; (adv) any.

certified. ANTONYM: (adj)

confirm, settle. ANTONYMS: (v)

ANTONYM: (pron) nobody

constrained

disprove, terminate, abolish,

everything: (pron) anything,

envelope: (n, v) covering, cloak,

abrogate, change, disestablish,

something, whatever thing, no

blanket; (n) casing, container, pack,

eradicate, invalidate, repeal,

matter which; (n) whole, everyone,

case, coating, jacket, integument,

unsettle, rebut

all things, everybody, entirety,