KEY: Promotion.

SYN: Furtherance, advancement, encouragement, preferment, elevation.

ANT: Hinderance, obstruction, impediment, retardation.

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KEY: Prompt.

SYN: Ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt, unhesitating.

ANT: Unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive.

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KEY: Promptitude.

SYN: Readiness, promptness, quickness, alertness, alacrity, activity.