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Main Entry: root
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: base, core

Synonyms:

basis, bedrock, beginnings, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, essentiality, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, mainspring, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, provenience, quick, quintessence, radicle, radix, reason, rhizome, rock bottom, seat, seed, soul, source, starting point, stem, stuff, substance, substratum, tuber, underpinning, well
Notes: a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another

Antonyms:

derivation, derivative, sprout
Main Entry: root
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dig and search

Synonyms:

burrow, delve, embed, ferret, forage, grub, grub up, hunt, ingrain, lodge, nose, place, poke, pry, rummage

Antonyms:

cover
Main Entry: acclaim
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give approval

Synonyms:

applaud, approve, blow horn, boost, celebrate, cheer, clap, commend, compliment, eulogize, exalt, extol, give a bouquet, give a posy, give kudos, hail, hand it to, hear it for, honor, laud, praise, puff up, push*, rave, recommend, root, salute, stroke*

Antonyms:

berate, censure, damn, denounce, disapprove, dishonor, vituperate
Main Entry: applaud
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clap for; express approval

Synonyms:

acclaim, approve, boost, cheer, commend, compliment, encourage, eulogize, extol, give a hand, give ovation, glorify, hail, hear it for, kudize, laud, magnify, plug, praise, rave, recommend, root*

Antonyms:

keep silent
Main Entry: base
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: foundation

Synonyms:

basement, basis, bed, bedrock, bottom, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, pedestal, rest, root, seat, seating, stand, substratum, substructure, support, underpinning

Antonyms:

top
Main Entry: base
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fundamental part

Synonyms:

authority, backbone, basis, chief constituent, core, essence, essential, evidence, foundation, fundamental, groundwork, heart, important part, infrastructure, key, origin, primary element, principal, principle, root, source, underpinning
Main Entry: basis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: foundation for belief, action

Synonyms:

antecedent, assumption, authority, axiom, backbone, background, backing, base, bedrock, cause, center, chief ingredient, core, crux, data, dictum, essence, essential, evidence, explanation, footing, fundamental, hard fact, heart, infrastructure, justification, keynote, keystone, law, nexus, nucleus, postulate, premise, presumption, presupposition, principal element, principle, proof, reason, root, rudiment, sanction, security, source, substratum, support, theorem, theory, underpinning, warrant
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: start of an event or action

Synonyms:

alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top

Antonyms:

completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin, cause

Synonyms:

antecedent, birth, conception, egg, embryo, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generation, genesis, germ, heart, principle, resource, root, seed, stem, well

Antonyms:

conclusion, outcome, result
Main Entry: bottom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: base, core

Synonyms:

basis, bottom line, cause, essence, essentiality, ground, heart, mainspring, marrow, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, soul, source, stuff, substance, virtuality

Antonyms:

exteriority, outside
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