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| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aggressive, attacking, batterfanged, ictic, obsidional, offensive, petulcous, up in arms
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| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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brooking, buttressing, cantilevered, exposed, fulcible, fundamental, offering secours, supported, supporting
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| Concept: | Front. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; special |
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front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk, disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece; anteriority; obverse [of a medal or coin]., fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first line; scout., brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mug; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib., pioneer (precursor); metoposcopy.
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| Antonyms: | rear |
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| Concept: | [Motion towards] Approach. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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approach, approximation, appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent (approach of time); pursuit.
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| Antonyms: | recession (Motion from)] |
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| Concept: | Attack. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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attack; assault, assault and battery; onset, onslaught, charge., aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at., storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade., fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, crossfire; volley of grapeshot, feu d'enfer., cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust; coupe de bec; kick, punch (impulse)., battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade; devastation; eboulement., assailant, aggressor, invader., base of operations, point of attack; echelon.
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| Antonyms: | defense |
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| Concept: | Increase. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; CHANGES IN QUANTITY |
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increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration, exacerbation; spread (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.
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| Antonyms: | decrease |
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| Concept: | Leap. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation., dance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade., kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper; wallaby.
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| Antonyms: | plunge |
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| Concept: | Offer. |
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offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture; proposal, proposition; motion, invitation; candidature; offering (gift).
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| Antonyms: | refusal |
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