ALCPT synonyms
a while - a period of time
abandon - desert, leave behind abundant - a lot accelerate - speed up accomplish - carry out, achieve accumulate - collect accurate - correct activate - turn on, make active advance (v) - make progress, go forward amend - improve annoy - bother, irritate annual - yearly, every year anxious - eager; worried appreciate - be grateful approach - come toward arrive - come, reach assemble - put together at last - finally authority - power authorize - approve, give permission avoid - stay away back (n) - rear be fond of - to like beautiful - pretty beside - next to, alongside besides - moreover, in addition blind - can't see brief - short (time) bring up - mention broke (adj) - no money busy - occupied call off - cancel can - be able to capability - ability change - alter, modify check (v) - examine, inspect, look into cheer up - make happy close (v) - shut, seal clumsy - awkward companion - buddy, friend conceal - hide consider - think over construct (v) - erect, build courteous - polite cruel - very mean, unjust damage - harm danger - hazard, risk data - information deaf - can't hear decide - choose, make up your mind decrease - reduce, be less demand (v) - ask for, require dense - heavy, thick depressed - feeling sad destroy - wreck disagreement - argument, quarrel disappear - vanish discard - throw away disease - illness dismount - get off of something disturbing - worrying don't bother - never mind drizzle - light rain dull - not sharp; boring duplicate - copy eligible - qualified emphasize - stress, point out empty - vacant enable - make able encounter - run across, run into endure - withstand, tolerate enough - sufficient equal - the same erratic - irregular establish - build eventually - ultimately exact - precise excellent - very good exhaust (v) - use up, run out of exhausted - used up, very tired fabric - cloth, material faith - trust, belief faithful - loyal fasten - join, connect, attach fatal - deadly, lethal fight - combat figure out - solve, find an answer find - locate find out - discover, learn fit (adj.) - in shape fluctuate - increase and decrease fluid - liquid for instance - for example freedom - liberty freeze - become ice function (n) - purpose funny - humorous furious - very angry furnace - a very hot oven furnish - supply, provide get - obtain, acquire get ready - prepare glance - quick look grip - grasp, grab gripe - complain guard - protect, defend handicap - disability handle (v) - hold, operate, manage harsh - severe hate - dislike, can't stand have to - must helicopter - chopper huge - very big illegal - against the law include - involve indicate - show inflate - fill with air inform - alert, notify injection - shot installations - military bases or posts instructions - directions intend - want, mean, plan jot down - take notes joy - happiness keep on - continue lawful - legal least - minimum lecture - speech let - allow, permit lie - deceive, be dishonest location - site, place look for - search lubricate - grease made up of - consist of main - chief, principal make sure - ensure, verify, confirm mandatory - compulsory materials - supplies maybe - perhaps, possibly mess up - make a mistake method - way, technique minor - small, slight mission - goal, duty moisture - dampness, wetness nevertheless - anyway nice - pleasant normal - regular, ordinary numerous - many objective - goal, target observe - watch occasionally - sometimes often - frequently operate - function, work orders - instructions, commands origin - beginning overcast - cloudy pants - trousers, slacks penetrate - pierce, go through perform - do, carry out pick out - select, choose precipitation - rain, snow, sleet, hail prefer - would rather produce (v) - generate promise - pledge, vow put off - postpone raise - lift up raw - uncooked, not processed realize - notice, become aware reject - refuse, turn down relaxed - calm release (v) - let go, discharge remove - take off, take out, take away repair (v) - fix represent - stand for required - needed rescue - save from danger reside - live, inhabit respond - react, answer rest (v) - relaxed return - go back, give back, get back, send back, etc. right away - immediately rip - tear role - part, job rush - hurry rust - oxidize satisfied - happy, pleased saturated - soaked say - state, declare seem - appear, look like sequence - order (n) serious - severe; not joking set up - establish, prepare should - ought to shy - timid, quiet siblings - brothers and sisters signal - sign, indication sleepy - drowsy smart - clever, intelligent solution - answer to a problem spouse - husband or wife starving - very hungry steam - vapor stuck up - arrogant, conceited submit - turn in, hand in supply (v) - provide, make available take care of - look after take over - assume control take part in - participate teach - train, instruct teacher - instructor tense - tight, pressured the rest - all that's left throw - eject, launch, toss tiny - very small tolerate - put up with trouble - problems truthful - honest try - attempt try out - test turn off - shut off turn on - switch on under - below, beneath, underneath upset - unhappy visit - drop by, drop in vital - necessary, crucial, essential voided - invalid, canceled wait - hold on weird - strange, unusual worn out - old, used, in bad condition wound (n) - injury
