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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tightness |
| Synonyms: | astriction, balance, constriction, force, pressure, rigidity, stiffness, strain, straining, stress, stretching, tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| Antonyms: | limpness, looseness, relaxation, slack |
| Main Entry: | alarm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of sudden fear |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, cold feet, consternation, dismay, distress, dread, fright, horror, nervousness, panic, scare, strain, stress, tension, terror, trepidation, unease, uneasiness |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, confidence, peace, quietness, repose, security |
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equilibrium |
| Synonyms: | antithesis, correspondence, counterbalance, equity, equivalence, even-steven, evenness, hang, harmony, parity, proportion, stasis, symmetry, tension |
| Antonyms: | disproportion, imbalance, instability |
| Main Entry: | brunt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad end of a situation |
| Synonyms: | burden, force, full force, impact, pressure, shock, strain, stress, tension, thrust, violence |
| Main Entry: | disagreement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispute, quarrel |
| Synonyms: | altercation, animosity, antagonism, argument, atmospherics, bickering, breach, break, clash, clashing, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, cross-purposes, debate, difference, discord, dissent, dissidence, disunion, disunity, division, divisiveness, falling out, feud, fight, friction, hassle, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, jarring, misunderstanding, opposition, rupture, spat, split, squabble, strife, tension, variance, vendetta, words, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | acquiescence, agreement, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turmoil in real life |
| Synonyms: | climax, comedy, crisis, dramatics, emotion, excitement, farce, histrionics, melodrama, scene, spectacle, tension, theatrics, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | effort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, exertion |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, aim, application, aspiration, attempt, battle, crack*, creation, deed, discipline, drill, elbow grease, endeavor, energy, enterprise, essay, exercise, feat, fling*, force, go*, industry, intention, job, labor, old college try, pains, power, product, production, pull, purpose, push, resolution, shot*, spurt, stab*, strain, stress, stretch, strife, striving, struggle, sweat, tension, toil, training, travail, trial, trouble, try, tug, undertaking, venture, whack |
| Antonyms: | hesitation, idleness, inactivity, laziness, passivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | electricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energized matter, power |
| Synonyms: | AC, DC, current, electromagneticism, electron, galvanism, heat, hot stuff, ignition, juice*, light, magneticism, service, spark, tension, utilities, voltage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emergency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, danger |
| Synonyms: | accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, meltdown, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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