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letter, n. epistle, favor, missive, note; encyclic, encyclical, decretal (letter of the Pope). a.s.sociated Words: correspond, epistolical, epistolary, epistolean, epistolize, epistler, epistolar, epistolography, postscript.
letter, n. initial (first letter).
letter-carrier, n. postman, mail-carrier, courier, mail-man, postboy, post.
letter for letter. _literatim_.
letters, n. pl. correspondence.
letters; n. pl. learning, literature, erudition, humanities.
let-up, n. (Colloq.) abatement, a.s.suagement, respite, subsidence.
let up. (Colloq.) abate, subside, diminish, intermit.
level, a. even, flat, plain, smooth, flush, plumb; horizontal; steady, impartial, well-balanced. Antonyms: undulating uneven, concave, convex, warped.
level, v. flatten, equalize, even, smooth, reduce; raze, reduce, overthrow, demolish; adapt, adjust.
lever, n. pry. a.s.sociated Words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing.
leverage, n. purchase.
levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity.
lewd, a. unchaste, l.u.s.tful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, p.o.r.nographic. Antonyms: chaste, modest, pure.
lewdness, n. unchast.i.ty, incontinence, l.u.s.t, lechery, ribaldry, salacity, concupiscence, profligacy, lasciviousness. Antonyms: chast.i.ty, modesty, purity.
liability, n. exposure, accountability, responsibility, amenability Antonyms: immunity, exemption.
liabilities, n. pl. debts, obligations, indebtedness.
liable, a. exposed, subject, accountable, answerable, amenable, bound. Antonyms: exempt, immune.
libel, n. defamation, lampoon, roorback.
libel, v. defame (by some publication), lampoon.
libellous, a. defamatory, slanderous, calumnious.
liberal, a. generous, open-handed, bounteous, munificent, unstinted, princely; profuse, lavish, ample, abundant; catholic, magnanimous, tolerant. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, limited, narrow, bigoced.
liberality, n. generosity. Antonyms: illiberality, stinginess, bigotry.
liberate, v. See free.
liberation, n. See freeing.
libertine, n. lecher, debauchee, rake, _roue_, profligate.
libertine, a. licentious, lecherous, profligate, rakish.
liberty, n. freedom, independence; privilege, permission. Antonyms: captivity, bondage, servitude, subjection, constraint, serfdom, slavery.
license, n. privilege, right; lawlessness, anarchy.
license, v. legalize, permit.
licentious, a. immoral, dissolute, profligate, lewd, libertine, rakish, lascivious; unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled.
lick, v. lap; (Colloq.) flog, thrash, chastise, castigate, trounce, drub. See whip.
lick, n. slap, stroke, blow.
licking, n. (Colloq.) flogging, chastis.e.m.e.nt, castigation, punishment, thras.h.i.+ng, whipping.
lid, n. cover.
lie, n. untruth, falsehood, fib; fiction, fabrication; subterfuge, evasion, misrepresentation.
lie, v. recline.
lie close. cuddle, nestle, snuggle.
lief, adv. willingly, gladly, freely, readily.
lien, n. inc.u.mbrance.
life, n. existence, being, animation, vitality; vivacity, spiritedness, energy, activity, briskness, sprightliness; biography, memoir. a.s.sociated Words: biology, biologist, vital, biometry, biogenesis, macrobiotics, vitalization, vitalize, bioplasm, protoplasm, elixir, biotic.
lifeless, a. dead, inanimate, spiritless, devitalized.
lifelessness, n. inanimation.
lift, v. raise, elevate.
lift, n. lifting, raising, elevation; help, a.s.sistance, aid; elevator, dumb waiter.
lifting machine. derrick, crane, tackle.
light, n. illumination; lamp, taper, candle, lantern, head-light, cresset; publicity, public notice; phosph.o.r.escence, luminescence; aureole, halo, nimbus, aureola, glory. a.s.sociated Words: photology, photologist, photophobia, catoptrics, dioptrics, photics, Ormuzd, luminary.
light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady, mercurial, fickle, frivolous.
light, v. ignite, illumine, illuminate.
light, v. dismount, alight, descend; rest, perch, settle.
