Promote. Encourage, forward, foster, push, advance, aid, assist, foment, excite, further, help, raise, urge forward, urge on, elevate, exalt.
Ant. Abase, allay; hinder, prevent, foil, frustrate.
Prompt. Ready, quick, agile, alert, brisk, nimble, expeditious; willing, hasty, inclined, disposed, responsive, unhesitating.
Ant. Dilatory, slow, tardy, lingering, loitering, inactive, sluggish, unready, unresponsive, procrastinating, behindhand, backward.
Pronounce. Deliver, speak, utter, articulate, enunciate; declare, affirm; propound, assert, express.
Ant. Mispronounce, gabble, mumble; silence, suppress; deny, retract.
Propagate. Increase, diffuse, disseminate, promote; spread, extend, generate, promulgate, circulate.
Ant. Strangle, stifle, extinguish, suppress, repress, check, hush up; contract, diminish, reduce; contradict, deny.
Proper. Own, individual, peculiar, particular; right, fit, decent; personal, constitutional, special, specific; suitable, appropriate, seemly, legitimate; decent, respectable.
Ant. Common, universal, general; unfitting, inappropriate, unsuitable, unseemly, indecent, wrong, improper, unbecoming, unbefitting.