| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false claim, assertion of importance |
| Synonyms: | allegation, ambition, ambitiousness, aspiration, assumption, charade, declaration, demand, disguise, maintenance, make-believe, pageant, pretense, pretext, profession, title |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
| Main Entry: | running |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, conduct, control, coordination, direction, functioning, handling, intendance, leadership, maintenance, operation, organization, oversight, performance, regulation, superintendency, supervision, working |
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, ministration, office, overhaul, relevance, serviceability, servicing, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work |
| Antonyms: | damage, disservice, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter, bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal |
| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food, money, possessions for staying alive |
| Synonyms: | alimentation, alimony, allowance, care, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, necessities, nutriment, payment, provision, relief, responsibility, stock, stores, subsidy, subsistence, sustenance, upkeep, victuals |
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
| Synonyms: | aid, aliment, bacon, bread and butter, bread, comestible, daily bread, eatables, edibles, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt, subsistence, support, victual, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | extras |
| Main Entry: | alimentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nourishment |
| Synonyms: | bread, bread and butter, food, livelihood, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, subsistence, support, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | palliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relief |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break*, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix*, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | assertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
absolute, affirmatory, asserting, broad, categorical, certain, confident, decided, declaratory, definitve, distinct, dogmatic, emphatic, explicit, express, flat, formal, ipse, peremptory, philodoxical, pointed, positive, predicable, predicatory, pronunciative, round, solemn, thetical, trenchant, unretracted
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