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KEY: Absent \a.\
SYN: Not present, gone away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless, listless, preoccupied.
ANT: Present, in this place, here, attentive.
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KEY: Absent.
SYN: Keep away, depart, withdraw.
ANT: Be present, stay, remain, [See ABSCOND].
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KEY: Absolute.
SYN: Perfect, complete, unconditional, irrelative, irrespective, supreme, despotic, autocratic, certain, authoritative, unqualified, unequivocal, irresponsible, arbitrary.
ANT: Imperfect, incomplete, conditional, conditioned, contingent, relative, dependent, constitutional, dubious, accountable, responsible.
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KEY: Absolve.
SYN: Acquit, release, exonerate, liberate, exempt, discharge, exculpate, pardon, forgive, free, clear.
ANT: Charge, accuse, compel, bind, obligate, convict, condemn, inculpate, impeach, oblige.
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KEY: Absonant.
SYN: Dissonant, discordant, contrariant, repugnant, inconsonant, inharmonious, incompatible, inappropriate, impertinent.
ANT: Consonant, agreeable, consistent, harmonious, compatible, appropriate, pertinent, congruous, suitable, proper.
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KEY: Absorb.
SYN: Swallow, drown, consume, imbibe, engross, drink in, suck up, engulf, monopolize, exhaust.
ANT: Eject, emit, exude, disgorge, dissipate, distract, distil, disperse.
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KEY: Abstain.
SYN: Refrain, forbear, refuse, demur, avoid, cease, stop, keep back, desist, discontinue, withhold, scruple.
ANT: Indulge, exceed, reveal, wanton.
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KEY: Abstemious.
SYN: Abstinent, moderate, self-denying, sober, temperate, sparing, frugal.
ANT: Sensual, self-indulgent, gluttonous, greedy, intemperate.
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KEY: Absterge.
SYN: Wipe, cleanse, purify, sponge, scour, scrub.
ANT: Foul, bespatter, contaminate, bedaub, soil, pollute, begrime.
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KEY: Abstersive.
SYN: Scouring, purifying, detergent, cathartic.
ANT: Contaminative, offensive, corruptive.
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KEY: Abstinent.
SYN: Temperate, abstemious, continent, sober, self-denying, austere.
ANT: Self-indulgent, sensual, intemperate, epicurean, dissipated, incontinent, debauched.
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KEY: Abstract \v.\
SYN: Separate, detach, part, eliminate, draw away, remove, take away, appropriate, purloin, steal, thieve, draw from.
ANT: Add, unite, conjoin, adduce, impose, restore, surrender, return, Abstract \n.\ [See ABRIDGMENT].
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KEY: Abstraction.