| Main Entry: | slant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | angle off, slope |
Synonyms: |
aim, bank, beam, bend, bevel, cant, decline, descend, deviate, direct, diverge, grade, heel, incline, lean, level, lie obliquely, list, point, skew, splay, swerve, tilt, tip, train, veer |
Antonyms: |
even, level |
| Main Entry: | slant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change to suit; distort |
Synonyms: |
aim, angle, bias, color, concentrate, direct, focus, influence, orient, point, prejudice, train, twist, warp, weight |
Antonyms: |
leave alone, maintain |
| Main Entry: | slanting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclining |
Synonyms: |
aslant, aslope, bent, oblique, sloping, tilting |
| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | point or direct at a goal |
Synonyms: |
address, angle, aspire, attempt, cast, concentrate, contemplate, covet, design, direct, endeavor, essay, fix, focus, intend, level, mean, plan, propose, purpose, set one's sights on, sight, slant, steer, strive, target, train, try, want, wish, zero in on, zoom in |
| Main Entry: | askew |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
Synonyms: |
askance, askant, aslant, awry, bent, buckled, catawampus, cockeyed, crookedly, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, off-center, slanted, slanting, to one side, topsy-turvey, turned, twisted, yaw ways, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
Synonyms: |
afield, askance, askew, aslant, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, turned, wrong, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
ok, on course |
| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean or tilt |
Synonyms: |
bend, camber, cant, incline, pitch, slant, slope |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to favor |
Synonyms: |
distort, incline, influence, make partial, prejudice, prepossess, slant, sway, twist, warp, weight |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
Antonyms: |
be fair, be impartial, be just |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
Synonyms: |
angle*, belie, cook up, disguise, doctor*, embroider, fake, falsify, fudge, garble, gloss over, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp |
Antonyms: |
be truthful, represent |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend |
Synonyms: |
dip, droop, drop, fall, go down, lower, sag, set, settle, sink, slant, slope |
Antonyms: |
ascend, go up, rise |