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[rez-ig-ney-shuhn] 
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| Main Entry: |
resignation
[rez-ig-ney-shuhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relinquishment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, departure, giving up, leaving, notice, quitting, renunciation, retirement, surrender, tendering, termination, vacating, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | agreement, taking on |
| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, giving in, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, submissiveness, yielding |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | capitulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving in |
| Synonyms: | accedence, bowing, buckling, conceding, giving up, knuckling under, relenting, resignation, submission, succumbing, surrender, yielding |
| Antonyms: | defending, fight, fighting |
| Main Entry: | compliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance, concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility, obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission, submissiveness, tractability, yielding |
| Antonyms: | defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension, dissent, fight, nonconformity, refusal, veto |
| Main Entry: | conformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, conventionality, docility, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness |
| Antonyms: | difference, fight, noncomformity, refusal |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness, flight, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retirement, retreat, running out on, secession, tergiversation, treachery, truancy, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch, strength, submission, sufferance, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, toleration, undergoing, vitality, will, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, overthrow |
| Synonyms: | abasement, breakdown, capitulation, collapse, death, degradation, destruction, diminution, disaster, dive, downfall, drop, failure, humiliation, loss, resignation, ruin, surrender, tumble |
| Main Entry: | forbearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resisting, avoidance |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, endurance, fortitude, going easy on, living with, longanimity, moderation, patience, patientness, refraining, resignation, restraint, self-control, temperance, tolerance |
| Antonyms: | continuation, indulgence, involvement, pursual, use |
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