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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleading, especially with a deity; |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, orison, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, arrogation, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, counterclaim, entreatment, entreaty, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, solicitation, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | entreaty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plea |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, imploration, imprecation, petition, prayer, request, suit, supplication |
| Antonyms: | answer, command, demand |
| Main Entry: | litany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recital of items, often part of religious services |
| Synonyms: | account, catalogue, enumeration, invocation, list, petition, prayer, recitation, refrain, repetition, supplication, tale |
| Notes: | a litany is a series of prayers; a liturgy is the canon of a religious service |
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake, fighting chance, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | petition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, plea |
| Synonyms: | address, application, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, invocation, memorial, prayer, request, round robin, solicitation, suit, supplication |
| Main Entry: | plea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | begging request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, intercession, orison, overture, petition, prayer, round robin, solicitation, suit, supplication |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feasibility, likelihood; chance |
| Synonyms: | achievability, action, attainableness, break, circumstance, contingency, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fling*, fluke, fortuity, happening, hazard, hope, incident, instance, liability, likeliness, occasion, occurrence, odds, opportunity, outside chance, plausibility, play*, potentiality, practicability, prayer*, probability, prospect, risk*, shot*, stab*, toss-up, workableness |
| Antonyms: | impossibility, impossible, unfeasibility, unlikelihood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | probability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likelihood of something happening |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, chance, chances, conceivability, contingency, credibility, expectation, feasibility, hazard, liability, likeliness, odds, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, practicability, prayer, presumption, promise, prospect, reasonableness, shot, snowball's chance, toss-up |
| Antonyms: | improbability, unlikelihood |
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