| assist | (noun) (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play | - |
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| (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assistance, help |
| (verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function | - |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on |
| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, help |
| assistance | (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assist, help |
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| (noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do | Synonyms: aid, help |
| (noun) gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause | Synonyms: aid, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance |
| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: help, helper, supporter |
| assisted | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: aided |
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| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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| consist | (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: comprise |
| (verb) be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous | - |
| (verb) have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in | - |
| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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| (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
| (noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consistently | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: systematically |
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| consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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| inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| inconsistent | (adjective) displaying a lack of consistency | - |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: discrepant |
| (adjective) not capable of being made consistent or harmonious | - |
| inconsistently | (adverb) without showing consistency | - |
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| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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| (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
| insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
| insistent | (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant |
| insistently | (adverb) in an insistent manner | - |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| irresistibility | (noun) the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist | Synonyms: irresistibleness |
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| irresistible | (adjective) impossible to resist; overpowering | Synonyms: resistless |
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| (adjective) overpoweringly attractive | - |
| irresistibleness | (noun) the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist | Synonyms: irresistibility |
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| irresistibly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: overpoweringly, overwhelmingly |
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| narcissist | (noun) someone in love with themselves | Synonyms: narcist |
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| narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nonresistant | (adjective) offering no resistance, compliant | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonimmune, unresistant |
| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
| persistently | (adverb) with persistence | - |
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| (adverb) in a persistent manner | - |
| persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
| resistible | (adjective) capable of being resisted or withstood or frustrated | - |
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| resistive | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistant |
| resistivity | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistance |
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| resistless | (adjective) impossible to resist; overpowering | Synonyms: irresistible |
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| (adjective) offering no resistance, passively accepting of a situation | Synonyms: unresisting |
| resistor | (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistance |
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| sister | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sis |
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| (noun) a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group | - |
| sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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| (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
| sisterlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterly, sororal |
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| sisterly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sororal |
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| sistership | (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sisterhood |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sisterhood |
| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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| subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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| (noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
| (noun) a means of surviving | - |
| subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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| synthesist | (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesizer |
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| transistor | (noun) a semiconductor device capable of amplification | Synonyms: electronic transistor, junction transistor |
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| transistorise | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorize |
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| transistorised | (adjective) (of an electronic device) equipped with transistors | Synonyms: transistorized |
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| transistorize | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorise |
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| transistorized | (adjective) (of an electronic device) equipped with transistors | Synonyms: transistorised |
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| unassisted | (adjective) lacking help | - |
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| (adjective) unsupported by other people | Synonyms: single-handed, unbacked |
| unresistant | (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonimmune, nonresistant |
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| unresisting | (adjective) offering no resistance, passively accepting of a situation | Synonyms: resistless |
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