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sufferance
[suhf-er-uhns, suhf-ruhns] 
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allowance
[uh-lou-uhns]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discount; concession |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, admission, advantage, cut, deduction, rebate, reduction, sanction, sufferance, toleration |
| Main Entry: | consent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement; concession |
| Synonyms: | accord, acquiescence, allowance, approval, assent, authorization, blank check, blessing, carte blanche, compliance, concurrence, go-ahead, green light, leave, okay*, permission, permit, right on, sanction, say so, stamp of approval, sufferance, understanding, yes |
| Antonyms: | denial, difference, disagreement, disapproval, dissension, objection, opposition, protest, refusal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
| Synonyms: | allowance, assent, authorization, concession, consent, dispensation, freedom, go-ahead, green light, liberty, okay, permit, sanction, sufferance, tolerance |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | limitation, prohibition, restriction |
| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, even temper, forbearance, fortitude, grit, guts*, gutsiness, heart, humility, imperturbability, intestinal fortitude, legs, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, moderation, moxie*, nonresistance, passiveness, passivity, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch, staying power, stoicism, submission, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, yielding |
| Antonyms: | agitation, frustration, impatience, intolerance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condescension |
| Synonyms: | civility, cronyism, deference, deigning, disdain, insolence, patronization, patronizing, stooping, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | humility, modesty |
| Main Entry: | permission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization, consent |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, avowal, canonization, carte blanche, concession, concurrence, condonance, condonation, dispensation, empowerment, endorsement, freedom, imprimatur, indulgence, leave, letting, liberty, license, okay, permit, privilege, promise, recognition, rubber stamp, sanctification, sanction, stamp of approval, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, verification, warrant |
| Antonyms: | denial, prohibition, veto |
| Main Entry: | permit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization |
| Synonyms: | admittance, allowance, charter, concession, consent, empowering, favor, franchise, go-ahead, grant, green light, indulgence, leave, legalization, liberty, license, pass, passport, patent, permission, privilege, safe-conduct, sanction, sufferance, toleration, visa, warrant |
| Antonyms: | grounding, prohibition |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endurance, passivity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acquiescence, compliance, conformity, deference, docility, forbearing, fortitude, humbleness, humility, longanimity, lowliness, meekness, modesty, nonresistance, patience, patientness, resignedness, submission, submissiveness, sufferance |
| Antonyms: | impatience, intolerance, resistance |
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