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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letdown, blow |
| Synonyms: | anticlimax, blow, collapse, comeuppance, crash, cropper, decline, defeat, deflation, demotion, descent, disappointment, discomfiture, dive, down, downfall, failure, fall, flop, humiliation, pratfall, reverse, ruin, setback, undoing, wreck |
| Antonyms: | ascent, boon, boost, fortune, promotion |
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, declension, degeneracy, degeneration, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, devolution, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, on the rocks, overthrow, rack and ruin, road to ruin, ruination, storm, the skids, undoing |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |
| Main Entry: | feather |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tuft of bird; plumage |
| Synonyms: | calamus, crest, down, fin, fluff, fringe, penna, pinion, pinna, plume, plumule, pompon, quill, shaft, spike, wing |
| Main Entry: | fur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hair on animals |
| Synonyms: | brush, coat, down, fluff, fuzz, hide, jacket, lint, pelage, pelt, pile, skin, wool |
| Notes: | a fir is any of various evergreen trees; fur is the pelt or coat of an animal, or a garment made of the fur of an animal |
| Main Entry: | fuzz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fluff |
| Synonyms: | down, dust ball, dust bunnies, fiber, floss, fur, hair, lanugo, lint, nap, pile |
| Antonyms: | smoothness |
| Main Entry: | hair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threadlike growth on animate being |
| Synonyms: | beard, bristle, cilium, coiffure, cowlick, cut, down, eyebrow, eyelash, feeler, fiber, filament, fluff, fringe, frizzies, fur, grass, haircut, hairstyle, lock, mane, mop, moustache, quill, ruff, shock, sideburn, split ends, strand, thatch, tress, tuft, vibrissa, villus, whiskers, wig, wool |
| Notes: | hair is any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; a hare is a large, long-eared and long-legged rabbit; an heir is a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another |
| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hillside, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, rising ground, shock, slope, stack, summit, talus, tor, upland |
| Antonyms: | canyon, ditch, gulley |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury; damage |
| Synonyms: | ache, black and blue, blow, boo-boo, bruise, chop, detriment, disadvantage, disaster, discomfort, disservice, distress, down, gash, harm, ill, ill-treatment, loss, mark, mischief, misfortune, nick, ouch, outrage, pain, pang, persecution, prejudice, ruin, scratch, sore, soreness, suffering, wound, wrong |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, healing, help, remedy |
| Main Entry: | malice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate, vengefulness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, animosity, animus, antipathy, bad blood, bane, bile, bitterness, despite, despitefulness, dirt, dislike, down, enmity, evil, grudge, hatefulness, hatred, hostility, ill will, implacability, malevolence, maliciousness, malignance, malignity, meanness, mordacity, poison, rancor, repugnance, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, venom, viciousness, vindictiveness |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, friendliness, kindness, like, sympathy, thoughtfulness |
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