Word: antonym
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...revised sections of the test include a mathematical section stressing the ability to work with numbers rather than knowledge of complicated formulae, and a verbal section posing clinical type situations rather than word analogies and synonym-antonym problems, according to Erdmann...
...themes and even rhetoric with a precision that is sometimes eerie. A one-word common denominator prevails in the Nixonian America: the sense of "system." The free enterprise system, the law-and-order system, even the "family unit" system?they are the recurring images among Nixon supporters. Their antonym is "chaos," not Utopia. They are apprehensive of the disorders that the late '60s adumbrated to them, the turmoils that they suspect a McGovern accession might bring...
...world's disenchanted are lured into taking that final step. In May's judgment, apathy, not hate, is the antonym of love, just as detachment -not indecision-is the opposite of will. Some settle for the airless refuge that offers an anodyne for the anguish of being -commitment to life. Those who seek safe harbor become what C. Wright Mills called "cheerful robots" and Wilhelm Reich "living machines." They have opted out of life; they have surrendered the ability...