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Main Entry:
listen [lis-uhn]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hear and pay attention
Synonyms: accept, admit, adopt, attend, audit, auscult, auscultate, be all ears, be attentive, catch, concentrate, eavesdrop, entertain, get, get a load of, give an audience to, give attention, give heed to, hang on words, hark, harken, hear out, hear tell, hearken, lend an ear, mind, monitor, obey, observe, overhear, pick up on, prick up ears, receive, take advice, take into consideration, take notice, take under advisement, tune in, tune in on, welcome
Notes: to listen is to try to hear; to hear is simply to perceive with the ear
Antonyms: speak, talk
Main Entry: serve
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: act, do
Synonyms: accept, agree, attend, be employed by, carry on, complete, discharge, follow, fulfill, function, go through, hearken, labor, obey, observe, officiate, pass, perform, subserve, toil, work
Antonyms: refrain, refuse
Main Entry: submit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: comply, endure
Synonyms: abide, accede, acknowledge, acquiesce, agree, appease, be submissive, bend, bow, buckle, capitulate, cave, cede, concede, defer, eat crow, fold, give away, give ground, give in, give way, go with the flow, grin and bear it, humor, indulge, knuckle, knuckle under, kowtow, lay down arms, obey, put up with, quit, relent, relinquish, resign oneself, say uncle, stoop, succumb, surrender, throw in the towel, toe the line, tolerate, truckle, withstand, yield
Antonyms: disobey, fight, resist
Main Entry: subscribe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: agree
Synonyms: accede, acquiesce, advocate, approve, assent, autograph, back, bless, boost, consent, cosign, countenance, ditto*, endorse, favor, get behind, give stamp of approval give the go-ahead, go along with, hold with, ink, obey, okay*, put John Hancock on, rubber-stamp, sanction, sign, signature, support, take, undersign, underwrite, yes*
Antonyms: disagree
Main Entry: answer to
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be responsible to
Synonyms: be ruled by, obey, respect
Antonyms: disobey
Main Entry: heel
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: follow
Synonyms: attend, obey
Related Words
Main Entry: heed
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
absorbed, alive to, askance, attentive, audient, awake to, beseeching, breathless, cognizant, come, distraught, engaged in, engrossed in, excubant, expergefacient, fleeting, furtive, intent on, levisomnous, measured, mindful, observant, observing, occupied with, on the watch, open, rapt, regardant, regardful, steadfast, taken up with, undistracted, upon the stretch, vultured, watchful, wrapped in
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