ISSUES Antonyms

• a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• the speech act of replying to a question

• the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

• a nonverbal reaction

• react verbally

• respond to a signal

• give the correct answer or solution to

• understand the meaning of

• give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)

• be liable or accountable

• be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

• match or correspond

• be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

• react to a stimulus or command

• a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

• an intuitive assumption

• the temporal end; the concluding time

• event whose occurrence ends something

• the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)

• the act of ending something

• a final settlement

• the last section of a communication

• the act of making up your mind about something

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• provide a cure for, make healthy again

• prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

• make (substances) hard and improve their usability

• be or become preserved

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug

• the act of putting something in working order again

• an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear

• a determination of the place where something is

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• cause to be firmly attached

• decide upon or fix definitely

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• take vengeance on or get even

• set or place definitely

• kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• make infertile

• influence an event or its outcome by illegal means

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• to be about to do something

• a change for the better; progress in development

• the act of improving something

• a condition superior to an earlier condition

• something that results

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation

• the conversion of alternating current to direct current

• the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right

• determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve

• act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• set straight or right

• provide relief for

• a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

• the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together

• the trait of being resolute

• finding a solution to a problem

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• analysis into clear-cut components

• (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture

• the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)

• (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• a method for solving a problem

• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

• the successful action of solving a problem

• a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

• a call to return

• a bugle call that signals troops to return

• the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

• the act of removing an official by petition

• recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

• go back to something earlier

• bring to mind

• summon to return

• cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression

• make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

• cause to be returned