Ant. Heavy, dejected, depressed, moody, joyless, cheerless, desponding.

Burden. Load, weight; cargo, freight; capacity, tonnage: impediment, incubus, grievance, trial, trouble, affliction, sorrow; chorus, refrain; topic, drift, tenor, point, substance.

Ant. Ease, lightness; facility, airiness, light-heartedness; consolation, assuagement, alleviation, liberation, mitigation.

Burial. Interment, sepulture, entombment, burying.

Ant. Exhumation, disinterment.

Burlesque. Parody, travesty, caricature, ridicule, farce.

Ant. Classic, history, fact.

Burn. Char, consume, cremate, scorch, set on fire, singe, ignite, incinerate, kindle, blaze, cauterize, glow, smolder.

Ant. Smother, stifle, subdue, extinguish, cool, put out; subside, glimmer, lower, pale.

Burnish. Brighten, polish, make to glisten, glaze, gloss.