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A synonym is a word or phrase that means the same or nearly the same as another. Here is a list of synonyms, arranged alphbetically, that can help you build your vocabulary and add variety to your writing.

Q

• Quarrel, altercation, disagreement, contention, controversy, breach.
• Queer, odd, curious, quaint, ridiculous, singular, unique, bizarre, fantastic, grotesque.

R

• Raise, lift, heave, hoist, erect, rear, elevate, exalt, enhance.
• Rash, incautious, reckless, foolhardy, adventurous, venturous, venturesome.
• Rebellion, insurrection, revolt, mutiny, riot, revolution, sedition.
• Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, rally, recuperate.
• Reflect, deliberate, ponder, muse, meditate, ruminate.
• Relate, recount, recite, narrate, tell.
• Relinquish, waive, renounce, surrender, forego, resign, abdicate.
• Renounce, abjure, forswear, recant, retract, repudiate.
• Replace, supersede, supplant, succeed.
• Reprove, rebuke, reprimand, admonish, chide, upbraid, reproach, scold.
• Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, gruesome.
• Requital, retaliation, reprisal, revenge, vengeance, retribution.
• Responsible, answerable, accountable, amenable, liable.
• Reveal, disclose, divulge, manifest, show, betray.
• Reverence, veneration, awe, adoration, worship.
• Rich, wealthy, affluent, opulent.
• Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.
• Ripe, mature, mellow.
• Rise, arise, mount, ascend.
• Robber, bandit, brigand, desperado, buccaneer, freebooter.
• Rogue, knave, rascal, miscreant, scamp, sharper, villain.
• Round, circular, rotund, spherical, globular, orbicular.
• Rub, polish, burnish, furbish, scour.
• Rumpus, ruction, spat, tiff, fuss, jar, feud.
• Run, scamper, scurry, scuttle, scud, scour, pace, gallop, trot, lope.
• Rupture, dispute, dissension, bickering, wrangle, broil, squabble, row.
• Rural, rustic, pastoral, bucolic.

S

• Sad, grave, sober, moody, doleful, downcast, dreary, woeful, somber, unhappy, woebegone, mournful, depressed, despondent, gloomy, melancholy, heavy-spirited, sorrowful, dismal, dejected, disconsolate, miserable, lugubrious.
• Satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, gorge.
• Say, utter, pronounce, announce, state, declare, affirm, aver.
• Scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, sneer, mock, taunt.
• Secret, covert, surreptitious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy.
• See, perceive, descry, distinguish, espy, discern, note, notice, watch.
• Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude.
• Sell, barter, vend, trade.
• Shape, form, figure, outline, conformation, configuration, contour, profile.
• Share, partake, participate, divide.
• Sharp, keen, acute, cutting, trenchant, incisive.
• Shine, beam, gleam, glisten, glister, glitter, glare, flare, flash.
• Shore, coast, littoral, beach, strand, bank.
• Shorten, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, truncate, syncopate.
• Show (noun), display, ostentation, parade, pomp, splurge.
• Show, exhibit, display, expose, manifest, evince.
• Shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail.
• Shun, avoid, eschew.
• Shy, bashful, diffident, modest, coy, timid, shrinking.
• Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.
• Silent, reserved, uncommunicative, reticent, taciturn.
• Simple, innocent, artless, unsophisticated, naive.
• Sing, chant, carol, warble, troll, yodel, croon, hum, chirp,
• Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious.
• Skin, hide, pelt, fell.
• Slander, defame, asperse, calumniate, traduce, vilify, malign, libel.
• Sleep, slumber, repose, nap, doze, drowse, lethargy, dormancy, coma.
• Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic.
• Slit, score, lance, carve, bisect, dissect, amputate, detruncate.
• Slovenly, slatternly, dowdy, frowsy, blowzy.
• Sly, crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, artful, politic, designing.
• Smell, odor, savor, scent, fragrance, aroma, perfume, redolence, tang.
• Smile, smirk, grin.
• Sneak, shamble, amble, wander, stamp, slouch, gad, gallivant, glide, hike>.
• Solitary, lonely, lone, lonesome, desolate, deserted, uninhabited.
• Song, ballad, ditty, lullaby, hymn, anthem, dirge, chant, paean, lay,
• Sour, acid, tart, acrid, acidulous, acerbitous, astringent.
• Sparkle, twinkle, dazzle, glimmer, glow, radiate, scintillate.
• Speak, discourse, expatiate, descant, comment, argue, persuade, plead,
• Speech, discourse, oration, address, sermon, declamation, dissertation, exhortation, disquisition, harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, philippic, invective, rhapsody, plea.
• Spend, expend, disburse, squander, waste, lavish.
• Splinter, sunder, rive, crush, batter, demolish, rupture.
• Spoiler, despoiler, forager, pillager, plunderer, marauder, myrmidon.
• Spot, blotch, speckle, fleck, dapple, smear, smutch, brand, defacement.
• Spruce, natty, dapper, smart, chic.
• Stale, musty, frowzy, mildewed, fetid, rancid, rank.
• Stay, tarry, linger, stop, sojourn, remain, abide, live, reside, dwell.
• Steal, abstract, pilfer, filch, purloin, peculate, swindle, plagiarize.
• Steep, precipitous, abrupt.
• Stingy, close, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid,
• Storm, tempest, whirlwind, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, typhoon
• Straight, perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright.
• Strange, singular, peculiar, odd, queer, quaint, outlandish.
• Strike, hit, smite, thump, beat, cuff, buffet, knock, whack, belabor,
• Strong, stout, robust, sturdy, stalwart, powerful.
• Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, sluggish, brainless, bovine.
• Suave, bland, unctuous, fulsome, smug, complaisant, elegant.
• Succeed, prosper, thrive, flourish, triumph.
• Succession, sequence, series.
• Sullen, surly, sulky, crabbed, cross, gruff, grumpy, glum, morose, dour.
• Supernatural, preternatural, superhuman, miraculous.
• Supplicate, importune, petition, plead, pray.
• Suppose, surmise, conjecture, presume, imagine, fancy, guess, think, believe.
• Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound.
• Swearing, cursing, profanity, blasphemy, execration, imprecation.

T

• Talk, chat, chatter, prate, prattle, babble, gabble, jabber, tattle.
• Talkative, loquacious, garrulous, fluent, voluble, glib, chattering, long-winded.
• Teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, drill, inculcate, instill, indoctrinate.
• Tear, rend, rip, lacerate, mangle.
• Thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, reflective, pensive, wistful.
• Throw, pitch, hurl, dash, fling, cast, toss, flip, chuck, sling, heave.
• Tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag.
• Toddle, waddle, shuffle, mince, stroll, saunter, ramble, meander.
• Tool, implement, instrument, utensil.
• Trifle, dally, dawdle, potter.
• Trim, dapper, spruce, genteel, urbane, well-bred, gracious, affable.
• Trust, confidence, reliance, assurance, faith.
• Try, endeavor, essay, attempt.
• Turn, revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, gyrate.
• Twaddle, blab, gossip, palaver, parley, converse, mumble, mutter, stammer.

U

• Ugly, homely, uncomely, hideous.
• Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined, loath, averse.

V

• Vestments, attire, garb, habit, costume, uniform.

W

• Walk, plod, trudge, tread, stride, stalk, strut, tramp, march, pace.
• Watchful, vigilant, alert.
• Wave (noun), billow, breaker, swell, ripple, undulation.
• Wave (verb), brandish, flourish, flaunt, wigwag.
• Weak, debilitated, feeble, infirm, decrepit, impotent, enervated, languid.
• Weariness, languor, lassitude, enervation, exhaustion.
• Wearisome, tiresome, irksome, tedious, humdrum.
• Wet (adjective), humid, moist, damp, dank, sodden, soggy.
• Wet (verb), moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate, drench
• Whim, caprice, vagary, fancy, freak, whimsy, crotchet.
• Whip, chastise, castigate, flagellate, scourge, lash, trounce, thrash.
• Wicked, sinful, felonious, illegal, immoral, heinous, flagitious,
• Wind, breeze, gust, blast, flaw, gale, squall, flurry.
• Wind, coil, twist, twine, wreathe.
• Winding, tortuous, serpentine, sinuous, meandering.
• Wise, learned, erudite, sagacious, sapient, sage, judicious, prudent.
• Wonderful, marvelous, phenomenal, miraculous.
• Work, labor, toil, drudgery.
• Workman, laborer, artisan, artificer, mechanic, craftsman.
• Write, inscribe, scribble, scrawl, scratch.

Y

• Young, youthful, boyish, girlish, juvenile, puerile, immature, callow, adolescent.

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Editor's note: This section of EnhanceMyVocabulary.com is excerpted and adapted from Project Gutenberg's The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Creever and Bachelor.