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annex, augment, extend, make up, affix, append, cast up, increase, subjoin, amplify, attach, enlarge, join on, sum up.

      To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment[19] throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.

      Antonyms:

abstract,	diminish,	lessen,	remove,	withdraw.
deduct,	dissever,	reduce,	subtract,

      Preposition:

      Other items are to be added to the account.

ADDICTED.

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      Synonyms:

abandoned,	devoted,	given over,	inclined,
accustomed,	disposed,	given up,	prone,
attached,	given,	habituated,	wedded.

      One is addicted to that which he has allowed to gain a strong, habitual, and enduring hold upon action, inclination, or involuntary tendency, as to a habit or indulgence. A man may be accustomed to labor, attached to his profession, devoted to his religion, given to study or to gluttony (in the bad sense, given over, or given up, is a stronger and more hopeless expression, as is abandoned). One inclined to luxury may become habituated to poverty. One is wedded to that which has become a second nature; as, one is wedded to science or to art. Prone is used only in a bad sense, and generally of natural tendencies; as, our hearts are prone to evil. Abandoned tells of the acquired viciousness of one who has given himself up to wickedness. Addicted may be used in a good, but more frequently a bad sense; as, addicted to study; addicted to drink. Devoted is used chiefly in the good sense; as, a mother's devoted affection.

      Antonyms:

averse,

disinclined,

indisposed,

unaccustomed.

      Preposition:

      Addicted to vice.

ADDRESS, v.

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      Synonyms:

cost,	approach,	hail,	speak to,
apostrophize,	court,	salute,	woo.
appeal,	greet,

      To accost is to speak first, to friend or stranger, generally with a view to opening conversation; greet is not so distinctly limited, since one may return another's greeting; greet and hail may imply but a passing word; greeting may be altogether silent; to hail is to greet in a loud-voiced and commonly hearty and joyous[20] way, as appears in the expression "hail fellow, well met." To salute is to greet with special token of respect, as a soldier his commander. To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity. To appeal is strictly to call for some form of help or support. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them. One may address another at considerable length or in writing; he accosts orally and briefly.

      Antonyms:

avoid,	elude,	overlook,	pass by,
cut,	ignore,	pass,	shun.

      Prepositions:

      Address the memorial to the legislature; the president addressed the people in an eloquent speech; he addressed an intruder with indignation.

ADDRESS, n.

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      Synonyms:

adroitness,	discretion,	manners,	readiness,
courtesy,	ingenuity,	politeness,	tact.
dexterity,

      Address is that indefinable something which enables a man to gain his object without seeming exertion or contest, and generally with the favor and approval of those with whom he deals. It is a general power to direct to the matter in hand whatever qualities

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