KEYS Antonyms

• a structure or object that impedes free movement

• any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

• anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access

• a demanding or stimulating situation

• a call to engage in a contest or fight

• questioning a statement and demanding an explanation

• a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

• a demand by a sentry for a password or identification

• take exception to

• issue a challenge to

• ask for identification

• raise a formal objection in a court of law

• the act or process of complicating

• a situation or condition that is complex or confused

• any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease

• a development that complicates a situation

• puzzling complexity

• an effort that is inconvenient

• the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

• a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented)

• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• a question raised for consideration or solution

• a source of difficulty

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• a game that tests your ingenuity

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide