SYN: Zenith, culmination, perfection, dawn, spring, cream, flower.

ANT: Decadence, wane, evening, refuse, winter, decay.

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KEY: Prime \a.\

SYN: Excellent, superexcellent, first-rate, perfect, consummate.

ANT: Inferior, impaired, waning, deteriorated, ordinary, second-rate, defective.

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KEY: Primeval.

SYN: Archaic, primordial, indigenous, autochthonic, aboriginal, pristine.

ANT: Subsequent, recent, modern, imported, adventitious.