Vocabulary 18

Synonyms: bad-mouth, blister, criticize, cut down to size, cut to the quick, decry, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derogate, diminish, discount, discredit, disparage, dispraise, downgrade, downplay, dump on, knock, lower, minimize, pan, pooh pooh, poor mouth, put down, rip, roast, run down, scoff at, scorch, scorn, shoot down, take down, take down a peg, tear down, underestimate, underrate, undervalue, write off
Antonyms: build up, exaggerate, praise, value

Synonyms: bag, box, case, casing, cloak, coat, coating, container, cover, covering, enclosure, hide, jacket, pocket, pouch, receptacle, sheath, shell, skin, vesicle, wrapping

Synonyms: taken advantage of, overworked, overburdened, oppressed, milked, abused

Synonyms: aid, ease, expedite, forward, further, grease the wheels, hand-carry, help, make easy, open doors, promote, run interference for, simplify, smooth, speed, speed up, walk through
Antonyms: block, check, delay, detain, hinder, prohibit, stop

Synonyms: abdicate, cast off, change one’s tune, desert, disclaim, disown, drift away, forgo, forswear, give up, have done with, jettison, jilt, kiss goodbye, leave, leave flat, leave high and dry, quit, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, run out on, set aside, show the door, spurn, surrender, take the oath, throw over
Antonyms: go back, rediscover, return, revert

Synonyms: blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate, decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, ding, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, lose strength, make useless, mar, prejudice, queer, reduce, rough up, spoil, tarnish, total, tweak, undermine, unfit, vitiate, weaken, worsen
Antonyms: aid, assist, help

Synonyms: administer, apply, bring upon, command, deal out, deliver, dispense, exact, expose, extort, force, force upon, give, give it to, lay down the law, levy, mete out, require, stick it to, strike, subject, visit, wreak

Synonyms: barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, canniba, listic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical fell, ferocious, fiendish,,fierce, grim, hateful, heartles, simplacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unrelentingun, sympathetic, vicious

Synonyms: change, clear, convert, fix up, furbish, improve, make good, mend, rebuild, reclaim, recondition, reconstitute, reconstruct, recover, redeem, reestablish, reform, refurbish, rehab, reinstate, reintegrate, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, renew, restitute, restore, save
Antonyms: destroy, hurt, ruin

Synonyms: breathe new life into, do, do up, exhilarate, give face lift to, give new life to, make young again, modernize, reanimate, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, refresh, refurbish, regenerate, rehab, reinvigorate, renew, renovate, restitute, restore, retread, revitalize, revivify, spruce, spruce up, update
Antonyms: destroy, kill, ruin