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Main Entry:       Achievement  

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         something completed successfully; goal reached

Synonyms:        accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, act, actualization,

attainment, completion, conquest, consummation, contrivance, creation, deed,

effectuation, effort, enactment, encompassment, execution, exploit, feat,

Fulfillment, hit, masterpiece, performance, production, realization, stroke,

success, tour de force, triumph, victory

Antonyms:        defeat, failure, forfeit, injury, miscue, misfortune, neglect,

negligence

Main Entry:       acquisition

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         obtaining or receiving

Synonyms:        accretion, achievement , acquirement, acquiring, addition, attainment,

buy, gain, gaining, learning, obtainment, possession, prize, procuration,

procurement, procuring, property, purchase, pursuit, recovery, redemption,

retrieval, salvage, winning

Notes:  acquisition  is a material possession while an acquirement  is a personal

skill or knowledge that one gains

Antonyms:        dearth, lack, loss, need, want

Main Entry:       act

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         something done

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , action, deed, doing, execution, exploit,

feat, move, operation, performance, step, thing, undertaking

Antonyms:        cessation, idleness, inactivity, inertia, quiet, quiet, repose, rest,

stoppage, suspension

Main Entry:       action

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         individual deed

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , act, blow, commission, dealings, doing,

effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork,

maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke,

thrust, transaction, undertaking

Main Entry:       actuality

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         something that truly exists, is real

Synonyms:        achievement , actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact,

materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance,

substantiality, truth, what it is

Main Entry:       completion

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         accomplishment, finishing

Synonyms:        achievement , attainment, close, conclusion, consummation,

culmination, curtains, dispatch, end, expiration, finalization, finis, finish,

fruition, fulfillment, hips, integration, perfection, realization, swan song,

windup, wrap-up

Antonyms:        anticlimax, imperfection

Main Entry:       creation

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         invention, concoction

Synonyms:        achievement , brainchild, chef-d'oeuvre, concept, handiwork, magnum

opus, opus, piece, pièce de résistance, production, work, work of genius

Main Entry:       discharge

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         carrying out of responsibility

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , execution, fulfillment, observance,

performance

Main Entry:       effort

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         work, exertion

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement, act, aim, application, aspiration,

attempt, battle, crack*, creation, deed, discipline, drill, elbow grease,

endeavor, energy, enterprise, essay, exercise, feat, fling*, force, go*,

industry, intention, job, labor, old college try, pains, power, product,

production, pull, purpose, push, resolution, shot*, spurt, stab*, strain,

stress, stretch, strife, striving, struggle, sweat, tension, toil, training,

travail, trial, trouble, try, tug, undertaking, venture, whack

Antonyms:        hesitation, idleness, inactivity, laziness, passivity

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:       end

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         completion, stop

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , adjournment, attainment, bottom line,

cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, conclusion, consequence,

consummation, culmination, curtain, denouement, desistance, desuetude,

determination, discontinuance, execution, expiration, expiry, finale, finis,

finish, fulfillment, issue, last word, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection,

realization, resolution, result, retirement, sign-off, target, termination,

terminus, upshot, windup, wrap-up

Antonyms:        beginning, commencement, opening, start

Main Entry:       execution

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         carrying out of a task

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , administration, completion,

consummation, delivery, discharge, doing, effect, enactment, enforcement,

fulfilling, implementation, nuts and bolts, operation, performance, prosecution,

realization, rendering, style

Antonyms:        abandoning, disregard, failure, forgetting, ignorance, leaving,

neglect

Main Entry:       finish

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         conclusion; completion

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , acquirement, acquisition, annihilation,

attainment, cease, cessation, close, closing, culmination, curtain, curtains,

death, defeat, denouement, desistance, end, end of the line, end of the road,

ending, finale, finis, last, last stage, ruin, stop, termination, terminus,

wind-up, winding-up, wrap, wrap-up

Antonyms:        beginning, commencement, initiation, introduction, start

Main Entry:       fulfillment

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         accomplishment, completion

Synonyms:        achievement , attainment, carrying out, carrying through,

consummation, contentedness, contentment, crowning, discharge, discharging,

effecting, end, gratification, implementation, just the ticket, kick*, kicks

observance, perfection, realization, you got it

Antonyms:        disappointment, dissatisfaction, failure, frustration, unfulfillment

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:       gain

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         acquisition, winnings

Synonyms:        accretion, accrual, accumulation, achievement , addition, advance,

advancement, advantage, attainment, benefit, boost, buildup, cut, dividend,

earnings, emolument, gravy, growth, headway, hike, improvement, income,

increase, increment, lucre, payoff, proceeds, produce, profit, progress,

receipts, return, rise, share, take, up*, upping, velvet*, yield

Antonyms:        expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:       hope

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         longing; dream

Synonyms:        Utopia, achievement , ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption,

belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream,

dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's

paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of

tunnel, optimism, pipe dream, promise, promised land, prospect, reliance,

reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers,

wish

Antonyms:        despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism

Main Entry:       satisfaction

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content

Synonyms:        achievement , amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness,

comfort, compensation, complacency, conciliation, contentedness, contentment,

delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, good fortune, gratification,

happiness, indemnification, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure,

pride, propitiation, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief,

reparation, repletion, resolution, reward, satiety, serenity, settlement,

vindication, well-being

Antonyms:        discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want

Main Entry:       success

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         favorable outcome

Synonyms:        Easy Street, accomplishment, achievement , advance, arrival,

ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses, benefit, big hit, boom*, clover,

consummation, do well, eminence, fame, flying colors, fortune, fruition, gain,

good luck*, good times, grand slam, gravy train, happiness, happy days, hit,

killing, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, profit, progress, prosperity,

realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, successfulness, triumph,

victory, walkaway, walkover, win, éclat

Antonyms:        failure, loss

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:       tour de force

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         spectacular achievement

Synonyms:        accomplishment, achievement , attainment, chef-d'oeuvre, conquest,

deed, exploit, feat, feat of strength, grand achievement, great achievement,

magnum opus, master stroke, masterpiece, masterwork, performance, piece de

resistance, stroke of genius, success, triumph, victory

Main Entry:       victory

Part of Speech: noun

Definition:         win, success

Synonyms:        achievement , advantage, ascendancy, bull's-eye, clean sweep,

conquest, control, defeat, defeating, destruction, dominion, feather in cap,

gain, grand slam, hit, hole in one, killing*, laurels, mission accomplished,

overthrow, prize, subjugation, superiority, supremacy, sweep, the gold, triumph,

upper hand, upset, winning

Antonyms:        defeat, failure, forfeit, loss

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