ANT: Condescending, affable, indulgent, modest, unassuming, suppliant, supplicatory, precatory, persuasive, insinuating.

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KEY: Dictatorial, [See DICTATE and ARBITRARY].

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KEY: Diction.

SYN: Style, expression, rhetoric, phraseology, language, grammar.

ANT: Solecism, provincialism, mispronunciation.

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KEY: Dictionary.

SYN: Lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, glossary.