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Ascendancy. Power, authority, sway, dominion, rule, mastery, control, government, influence.
Ant. Subordination, servility.
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Ascertain. Determine, establish, settle, fix, define, verify; discover, find out, get at.
Ant. Guess, surmise, suppose, presume, conjecture.
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Ascetic. Austere, rigid, severe, self-denying, abstinent, stern, puritanical.
Ant. Lenient, indulgent, epicurean, pampered, mild, tolerant.
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Ascribe. Impute, attribute, assign, refer, charge, set down.
Ant. Dissociate, exclude; deny, refuse; disconnect.
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Ask. Request, petition, solicit, entreat, beg, beseech, supplicate, require of, crave, demand.
Ant. Refuse, reject, deny; command, claim, exact, extort, enforce, insist.
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Aspect. Air, mien, look, countenance, expression, feature, bearing; state, attitude, posture, condition, appearance; direction, outlook, prospect.
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Asperity. Acrimony, sourness, sharpness; sternness, severity, bitterness, sullenness, ill-temper; roughness, unevenness.
Ant. Sweetness, pleasantness; gentleness, mildness; smoothness.
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Asperse. Slander, calumniate, traduce, vilify, attack, abuse, blemish, besmirch, vituperate, disparage, censure, slur, malign.
Ant. Eulogize, vindicate, clear, defend, extol, praise, shield.
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Aspiration. Pronouncing with the rough breathing; yearning, longing, ardent desire, craving, spiritual ambition.
Ant. Apathy, inertia, indifference, dulness, aversion, repudiation, avoidance.
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Assault. Attack, invasion, charge, onset, onslaught, aggression.
Ant. Resistance, defense, repulsion, retaliation, undermining.
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Assemble. Gather, collect, convene, congregate, meet, come together.
Ant. Disperse, scatter, dismiss.
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Assembly. Concourse, company, gathering, congregation, assemblage, meeting, convocation, throng; congress, parliament, legislature, synod, diet, council, convention; ball, dance, dancing party.
Ant. Dispersion, dismissal, disunion, disruption.
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Assent, n. Acquiescence, acknowledgment, approval, concurrence, approbation, accord, consent, agreement, compliance.
Ant. Disagreement, dissent, difference, protest, declension.
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Assertion. Asseveration, protestation, allegation; position, statement, word, declaration; vindication, defense, maintenance.
Ant. Denial, contradiction, abandonment, protest, disavowal, retraction, repudiation, confutation, abjuration.