Ant. Stoicism, asceticism, self-denial, austerity, hardship; spirituality.

Lying, a. False, mendacious, untruthful, untrue; recumbent.

Ant. Truthful, true, veracious, upright, honest, accurate, exact; erect.

M

Macerate. Weaken, soften; attenuate, make lean, waste, wear away; harass, mortify, torture; steep, soak, digest.

Ant. Fatten, replenish, repair, pamper, swell.

Machinate. Plan, contrive, devise, plot, scheme, harm.

Ant. Think aloud, speak out, be artless; counterplot, compete; expose, defeat, baffle.

Machination. Plot, conspiracy, intrigue, cabal, stratagem, design, trick, artifice, contrivance, scheme.

Ant. Detection, counteraction, overthrow, baffling, defeat, exposure, defiance, challenge; conflict, competition.