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EX-CESSES

Main Entry:
excess [n. ik-ses, ek-ses; adj., v. ek-ses, ik-ses]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overabundance of something
Synonyms: balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness
Antonyms: dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want
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Main Entry: backlog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uncompleted work; accumulation
Synonyms: excess, hoard, inventory, quantity, reserve(s), reservoir, resources, stock, stockpile, store, supply
Main Entry: balance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: money remaining in account
Synonyms: difference, dividend, excess, profit, remainder, residue, rest, surplus
Main Entry: bulge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swollen object
Synonyms: appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart
Antonyms: depression
Main Entry: congestion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blockage
Synonyms: bottleneck, clogging, crowdedness, crowding, excess, jam, mass, overcrowding, overdevelopment, overpopulation, press, profusion, rubber-necking, snarl-up, surfeit, surplus, traffic jam
Antonyms: opening
Main Entry: debauchery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: immoral self-indulgence
Synonyms: bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear*
Antonyms: benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness
Main Entry: decadence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: perversion; deterioration of morality
Synonyms: corruption, debasement, decay, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, devolution, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, gluttony, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism
Antonyms: humility, morality
Main Entry: dissipation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wantonness
Synonyms: abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste
Antonyms: unselfishness, virtue
Main Entry: exaggeration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overstatement, embellishment
Synonyms: aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn
Antonyms: minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment
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