KLEZMER Antonyms

• of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.

• of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

• traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste

• of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors

• well-known and long-established in form or style

• (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics

• of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas

• of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• the territory occupied by a nation

• the people who live in a nation or country

• an area outside of cities and towns

• a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

• of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons

• of or concerned with electrons

• people in general (often used in the plural)

• a social division of (usually preliterate) people

• people descended from a common ancestor

• the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

• an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city

• genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

• a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

• play something in the style of jazz

• have sexual intercourse with

• an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

• a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring

• a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork

• music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love

• like a pop or with a pop

• (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)

• bulge outward

• hit a pop-fly

• make a sharp explosive noise

• fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise

• cause to make a sharp explosive sound

• appear suddenly or unexpectedly; happen unexpectedly

• put or thrust suddenly and forcefully

• release suddenly

• hit or strike

• drink down entirely

• take drugs, especially orally

• cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound

• burst open with a sharp, explosive sound

• popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth