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endowment

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Main Entry: endowment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large gift

Synonyms:

award, benefaction, benefit, bequest, bestowal, boon, bounty, dispensation, donation, fund, funding, gifting, grant, gratuity, income, inheritance, largess, legacy, nest egg, pension, presentation, property, provision, revenue, stake, stipend, subsidy, trust

Antonyms:

loss
Main Entry: endowment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal talent, ability

Synonyms:

aptitude, attribute, capability, capacity, faculty, flair, genius, gift, habilitation, power, qualification, quality, turn

Antonyms:

drawback, inability, weakness
Main Entry: ability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: power to act, perform

Synonyms:

aptitude, capability, capacity, competence, competency, comprehension, dexterity, endowment, facility, faculty, intelligence, might, potentiality, qualification, resourcefulness, skill, strength, talent, understanding
Notes: applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative

Antonyms:

impotence, inability, limitation, paralysis
Main Entry: aid
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help, support

Synonyms:

advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment

Antonyms:

blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction
Main Entry: allowance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amount of money or other supply

Synonyms:

aid, alimony, allocation, allotment, annuity, apportionment, bequest, bite*, bounty, commission, contribution, cut, endowment, fee, fellowship, gift, grant, honorarium, inheritance, interest, legacy, lot, measure, part, pay, pension, piece, portion, prize, quantity, quota, ration, recompense, remittance, salary, scholarship, share, slice, stint, stipend, subsidy, taste, wage
Main Entry: award
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prize or reward

Synonyms:

accolade, adjudication, allotment, bestowal, citation, conferment, conferral, decision, decoration, decree, distinction, donation, endowment, feather in cap, gift, gold, gold star, grant, honor, order, presentation, scholarship, trophy, verdict
Main Entry: bequest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something given in will

Synonyms:

bequeathal, bequeathment, bestowal, devisal, devise, dower, endowment, estate, gift, heritage, inheritance, legacy, settlement, trust
Main Entry: caliber
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: capacity; character

Synonyms:

ability, appetency, capability, competence, constitution, dignity, distinction, endowment, essence, faculty, force, gifts, habilitation, merit, nature, parts, power, quality, scope, stature, strength, talent, value, virtue, worth, worthiness
Main Entry: characteristic
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: typical feature, trait

Synonyms:

affection, aspect, attribute, badge, bag, bearing, bent, caliber, cast, complexion, component, differentia, disposition, distinction, earmark, endowment, essence, essential, faculty, flavor, frame, idiosyncrasy, inclination, individuality, lineament, mannerism, mark, mood, nature, originality, particularity, peculiarity, personality, point, property, quality, singularity, specialty, streak, stripe, style, symptom, temperament, tendency, thing, thumbprint, tinge, tone, trademark, turn, virtue

Antonyms:

abnormality
Main Entry: charity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: generosity, gift

Synonyms:

alms, alms-giving, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, gifting, hand*, hand-out, helping hand, largesse, oblation, offering, philanthropy, relief, write-off

Antonyms:

stealing, taking
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