Prosperity. Thrift, weal, welfare, happiness, well-being, success, good fortune.

Ant. Woe, misfortune, ill luck, failure, adversity, calamity, reverses, affliction, distress, disaster, misery.

Protest, v. Assert, aver, attest, testify; affirm, declare; asseverate, avow, profess; expostulate, remonstrate, repudiate, deprecate, denounce.

Ant. Retract, withdraw, abjure, revoke; coincide, sanction, agree, endorse, subscribe, acquiesce.

Protract. Defer, continue, delay, extend, elongate, lengthen, procrastinate, postpone, prolong, draw out.

Ant. Abbreviate, contract, conclude, hasten, hurry, reduce, shorten, abridge, curtail, limit.

Proud. Arrogant, haughty, presumptuous, lordly; worthy, admirable, grand, splendid, magnificent, ostentatious; lofty, supercilious, imperious, boastful, elated, imposing, vainglorious.

Ant. Humble, unassuming, unobtrusive, meek, lowly, mild, submissive, unpretending, deferential, affable, unpresuming, mean.

Proverb. Axiom, byword, dictum, adage, aphorism, maxim, motto, precept, truism, saying, saw, apothegm.

Provide. Prepare, supply, afford, contribute, furnish; engage, bargain, agree; stipulate; procure.