Abridge Condone to make shorter to pardon or overlook SYNONYMS: shorten, condense, abbreviate SYNONYMS: ignore, wink at, turn a blind eye to ANTONYMS: expand, enlarge, augment ANTONYMS: censure, condemn, disapprove, deprecate Adherent Dissent a follower, supporter; attached, sticking to to disagree; disagreement SYNONYMS: disciple SYNONYMS: differ, dispute ANTONYMS: opponent, adversary, critic, detractor ANTONYMS: agree, concur; unanimity, harmony Altercation Eminent an angry argument famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting SYNONYMS: quarrel, dispute, squabble SYNONYMS: illustrious, renowned ANTONYMS: agreement, accord ANTONYMS: obscure, nameless, unsung, lowly, humble Cherubic Exorcise resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive SYNONYMS: angelic, seraphic, beatific SYNONYMS: expel, dispel ANTONYMS: impish, devilish, diabolic, fiendish Fabricate Pauper to make, manufacture; to make up, invent an extremely poor person SYNONYMS: put together, devise, contrive, concoct SYNONYMS: destitute person SNTONYMS: take apart, undo, destroy, demolish ANTONYMS: millionaire, tycoon Irate Pilfer angry to steal in small quantities SYNONYMS: incensed, infuriated, enraged, livid SYNONYMS: filch, rob, swipe, purloin ANTONYMS: calm, composed, cool, unruffled Rift Marauder a raider, plunderer SYNONYMS: looter, pirate, freebooter a split, break, breach SYNONYMS: crack, fissure, gap, cleft ANTONYMS: reconciliation Semblance Obesity a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition excessive fatness SYNONYMS: serious overweight, extreme corpulence ANTONYMS: emaciation, gauntness, scrawniness SYNONYMS: appearance, air, aura, veneer, façade ANTONYMS: dissimilarity, contrast, total lack Surmount to overcome, rise above SYNONYMS: conquer, triumph over ANTONYMS: be vanquished, be defeated, succumb to Terminate to bring to an end SYNONYMS: conclude, finish, discontinue ANTONYMS: begin, commence, initiate Trite commonplace; overused, stale SYNONYMS: banal, hackneyed, corny ANTONYMS: original, novel, fresh, innovative Usurp to seize and hold a position by force or without right SYNONYMS: seize legally, commandeer, supplant