Assiduousness, n. Assiduity.
Assign, v. a. 1. Apportion, allot, appoint, appropriate, cast.
2. Fix, specify, determine, designate.
3. Adduce, allege, advance, offer, give, present, bring forward.
4. (Law.) Transfer, convey, make over.
Assignation, n. 1. Designation.
2. Appointment to meet.
Assign dower, (Law.) Set off (by metes and bounds) the widow's share.
Assignment, n. 1. Appointment, allotment, apportionment.
2. (Law.) Transfer, conveyance.
Assimilate, v. a. 1. Liken, make like, bring to a resemblance.
2. Digest, turn to one's own substance.
Assist, v. a. 1. Help, aid, support, befriend, patronize, serve, speed, second, abet, back, sustain, co-operate with, take part with, give support to, minister to.
2. Succor, relieve, spell.
Assistance, n. Help, aid, succor, lift, support, patronage, relief, helping hand, good offices.
Assistant, n. Coadjutor, helper, aider, co-operator, co-aid, ally, auxiliary, abettor, adjutant, clerk, right hand man.
Assizes, n. pl. Sessions (of the superior courts in the counties of England).
Associate, v. a. Join, conjoin, unite, connect, combine, affiliate, yoke, couple, link, bring into close relation.
Associate, v. n. Fraternize, sort, consort, keep company, be in familiar intercourse.
Associate, n. 1. Companion, mate, fellow, yoke-fellow, comrade, peer, compeer, follower, consort.
2. Partner, copartner, coadjutor, colleague, confederate, ally.
Association, n. 1. Union, connection, conjunction, combination.
2. Society, fraternity, partnership, copartnership, sodality, company, band, corporation, body, guild, firm, house, confederacy, confederation, lodge, club, coterie, clique, joint concern.
Assort, v. a. Class, classify, rank, group, arrange, distribute, sort.
Assort, v. n. Agree, consort, suit, be adapted, be suitable.
Assortment, n. 1. Assorting, arranging, allotment, distribution, arrangement.
2. Class, group, set, batch, lot, parcel, stock, store, collection, pack.
3. Variety of sorts, many kinds.
Assorted, a. Of various sorts.
Assuage, v. a. Mitigate, moderate, appease, alleviate, soothe, soften, mollify, pacify, compose, tranquillize, quiet, still, quell, allay, abate, temper, attemper, lessen, qualify, relieve, ease, dull, blunt, lull.
Assuagement, n. Mitigation, alleviation, pacification, easing, abatement.
Assuasive, a. Soothing, assuaging, emollient, lenient, lenitive, mitigating, mitigative, mild.
Assume, v. a. 1. Take, undertake, take on, take upon one's self, be willing to bear.
2. Affect, feign, counterfeit, simulate, pretend to, put on.
3. Arrogate, usurp, claim unduly, make unjust pretensions to.
4. Beg, suppose, presuppose, imply, consider as true, take for granted.
Assumed name, Alias.
Assuming, a. 1. Presuming, presumptuous, forward, audacious, bold, shameless, frontless, unblushing, brazen, brazen-faced.
2. Arrogant, proud, lofty, stately, haughty, supercilious, overbearing, overweening, conceited, consequential, self-conceited, self-sufficient.
Assumption, n. 1. Assuming, arrogating, usurpation.
2. Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory.
3. Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness, lordliness, stateliness, conceit, pride, conceitedness, self-conceit, self-importance, vain-glory, arrogance, insolence, hauteur.
Assurance, n. 1. Security, certainty, conviction, persuasion, pledge of certainty, ground of confidence.
