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Synonyms and Antonyms: Examination

Examination-(see Essay)-investigation, inquiry, search, research, scrutiny, exploration, test, sifting, trial, experiment. Exceed-excel, outdo, transcend, surpass, overmatch, outmatch, overtop, outstrip, eclipse, beat, overstep, trespass. (Fall short of, want, fail, omit.) Exceptional (see Common) - uncommon, unusual, rare, extraodinary, seldom, odd, unique. (General, ordinary, regular, normal.) Excite (see Abet)-urge, rouse, stir, awaken. (Assuage, calm, still, tranquillize.) Excursion-tour, trip, expedition, discursion, ramble, jaunt, outing, run, peregrination. Execute. See Act and effect.

Exempt free, absolved, cleared, discharged, at liberty. (Implicated, included, bound, obliged.) Exercise, n.-operation, function, practice, office, action, performance. (Neglect, stagnation, rest, stoppage.) Exhaustive-draining out, fagging, complete, thorough, out-and-out. (Perfunctory, slight, superficial.) Exigency-predicament, emergency, crisis, push, pass, turning point, conjuncture. Experiment. See Essay and Examination.

Explain, See Elucidate.

Express, v.-(see Conceal)-utter, tell, declare, signify, manifest, indicate, show, demonstrate.) Extend. See Enlarge.

Extravagant-excessive, inordinate, preposterous, prodigal, profuse, wasteful, lavish, thriftless, dissipated. (Moderate, economic, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, niggardly, close-fisted.) Fable-apologue, parable, tale, invention, myth, romance. (Truth, fact, history, event, deed.) Face-aspect, visage, countenance, guise, look, complexion, mien, cast, air, presence, physiognomy.

Facetious. See Droll.

Factor (see Proxy)-manager, agent, officer, functionary, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, steward, seneschal, executor.

Fail-(see Deficient)-fall short, be deficient, be wanting. (Succeed, make good, accomplish, substantiate.) Faint-fatigued, drooping, exhausted, prostrate, spent, blown, played out, languid. (Refreshed, invigorated, fresh, untired, vigorous, alert, eager, forcible. Fair-(see Foul)-white, open, candid, clear, moderate, equitable, reasonable, evenhanded, just, honest, rightful. (Black, outrageous, unfair, treacherous.) Faith-belief, creed, trust, truth, confidence, persuasion, conviction, opinion, tenet, dogma, confession, profession. (Unbelief, infidelity, scepticism, disbelief.) Faithful true, loyal, constant, staunch, trusty, trustworthy. (Faithless, treacherous, false, deceitful, double, perfidious.) Fall, n.-descent, drop, lapse, downfall, tumble, cadence, subsidence, slip, lurch. (Ascent, rise, mount, acclivity.) Fame-renown, repute, distinction, mark, name, figure, note, popularity, glory. (Disrepute, discredit, degradation, infamy, shame, dishonor, obscurity.) Famous - celebrated, notable, distinguished, glorious. (Disreputable, obscure, infamous.) Fanciful-imaginative, notional, whimsical, fantastic, crotchety, unreal, freakish, (Sober matter-of-fact, sensible.) Fancy-imagination, vision, dream, conceit, figment, myth, vagary, rhapsody, freak. Fast-speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet, nimble, expeditious, mercurial. (Slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, sluggish.) Fatigue-tiredness, exhaustion, lassitude, prostration, weariness, ennui. (Freshness, spring, elasticity, vigor.) Fear (see Audacity)-timidity, timorousness.

Feeling-sensation, sensibility, impressibility, susceptibility, tenderness, sentiment. (Insensibility, apathy, phlegm, coldness, callousness.) Ferocious-savage, fierce, wild, barbarous, bloodthirsty. (Mild, gentle, meek, tame, humane.) Fertile-fruitful, productive, prolific, teeming, fecund, frugiferous, generative. (Barren, sterile, arid.) Fiction (see Fable)-falsehood, fabrication, story, tale, novel, romance, legend. Figure-(see Form)-appearance, type, image, allegory, emblem, symbol, parable, trope.