authorization

Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural
authorizations)
1. (uncountable) Permission.
I've got authorization. Call the office
and you'll see.
2. (countable) An act of authorizing.
3. (countable) (A document giving)
formal sanction, permission or
warrant.
Can I see your authorization?
4. (government) Permission, possibly
limited, to spend funds for a specific
budgetary purpose.
We've had the authorization for
years, but we've never gotten an
appropriation.
Synonyms for authorization
noun permission

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sanction star

signature star

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Antonyms for authorization

disapproval

opposition

advocacy
Noun
(plural advocacies)
1. the profession of an advocate
2. the act of arguing in favour of, or
supporting something
3. the practice of supporting someone
to make their voice heard
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I asked Yes, or a victim's advocacy

group.

From 1816 to 1818 he was

Luxemburg envoy at the German
diet, but was recalled, at the instance
of Metternich, owing to his too
independent advocacy of state
constitutions.

In 1893 he retired, and devoted

himself to journalism and lecturing,
becoming well known for his ardent
advocacy of extreme socialistic
views.

His advocacy of an American

episcopate, in connexion with which
he wrote the Answer to Dr Mayhew's

Observations on the Charter and

Conduct of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts (London 1764), raised
considerable opposition in England
and America.

opposition

protest

Its open advocacy of force attracts

warlike races, and the intensity of its
influence is increased by the fusion
of secular and religious power, so
that the Moslem Church is a Moslem
state characterized by slavery,
polygamy, and, subject to the
autocracy of the ruler, by the
theoretical.

Synonyms for advocacy

noun support for an idea or cause

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verb

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aided, aiding, aids

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Antonyms for advocacy

aid

verb
, transitive
To provide assistance, support, or relief to:
aided the researchers in their discovery;
aided the prisoners' attempt to escape.
verb

stop
, intransitive

stoppage

discouragement

attack

To provide assistance, support, or relief:

aided in the effort to improve services to the
elderly.
noun

1. The act or result of helping;

assistance: gave aid to the enemy.
2. a. Something that provides help,
support, or relief, such as money or
supplies: sent medical aid to the
region after the storm.
b. Something, such as a device, that
provides improvement: visual aids
such as slides.
3. a. An assistant or helper.
b. An aide or aide-de-camp.
4. A monetary payment to a feudal lord
by a vassal in medieval England.
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Synonyms for aid

noun help, support

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Antonyms for aid

I knew I needed medical assistance

beyond the temporary first aid I
applied in my home on wheels.

damage

handicap

Start with gathering blankets, hot

water, a first-aid kit, any sort of
bandages they might have.

harm

hindrance

She did as he said and ransacked the

cabinets until she found a small firstaid kit.

hurt

injury

She dressed then went through the

motions of brushing her teeth and
dressing without the aid of a mirror,
irritated that the only mirror in the
bedroom was in the inside door of
the wardrobe.

loss

Never. He was a band-aid for you.

angry
adjective

angrier, angriest
1. Feeling or showing anger; incensed
or enraged: angry at my boss; angry
with her.
2. Indicative of or resulting from anger:
an angry silence.
3. Having a menacing aspect;
threatening: angry clouds on the
horizon.
4. Chiefly New England & Midland US
Inflamed and painful: an angry sore.
Synonyms for angry
adj being mad, often extremely mad

affirmation
Noun

(plural affirmations)
1. A declaration that something is
true; an oath.
2. A form of self-forced meditation
or repetition; autosuggestion.

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Synonyms for affirmation

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noun declaration of the truth of

something

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furious star

confirmation star

heated star

affidavit star

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attestation star

averment star

Antonyms for angry

calm

cheerful

cool

happy

mild

Antonyms for affirmation

denial

negation

nullification

veto

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But whilst all the organic

processes in man go on
mechanically, and though by
reflex action he may repel
attack unconsciously, still the
first affirmation of the system
was that man was essentially a
thinking being; and, while we
retain this original dictum, it
must not be supposed that the
mind is a mere spectator, or like
the boatman in the boat.

The Senate would choose its

own president, and the House of
Representatives its speaker;
each house would make its own
rules of procedure; in each, onethird of the number of members
would form a quorum; the

members of each must take

oath, or make affirmation of
allegiance; and all alike would
receive an allowance of 400 a
year.

No city calls itself either Guelpi

or Ghibelline till it has expelled
one-half of its inhabitants; for
each party is resolved to
constitute the state according
to its own conception, and the
affirmation of the, one
programme is the negation of
the other.