THESAURUS
Charley, VC, Vietcong, acquired immunity, active immunity, alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen, antipathy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, artificial immunity, autism, autistic thinking, averseness, aversion, avoidance mechanism, avoidance reaction, backlash, backwardness, base resistance, blame-shifting, block, blockage, blocking, bucking, bushfighter, bushwhacker, callosity, callousness, capacitive reactance, casual, censorship, challenge, check, clashing, clogging, closing up, closure, coefficient of friction, cohesiveness, collision, compensation, conflict, confutation, congenital immunity, constriction, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contravention, contraversion, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, cramp, crankiness, crosscurrent, crossing, crotchetiness, cursoriness, decompensation, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, defiance, delay, denial, density, dereism, dereistic thinking, detainment, detention, deterrent capacity, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, displacement, disrelish, dissent, dissociation, distaste, drag, durability, durity, ego defenses, electric resistance, emitter resistance, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, familial immunity, fantasizing, fantasy, fixation, flight, flintiness, fluid friction, foot-dragging, force of friction, force of viscosity, forward transfer resistance, fractiousness, friction, friction head, friction loss, frictional resistance, grudging consent, grudgingness, guard, guerillas, guerrilla, hampering, hardiness, hardness, hardness of heart, head wind, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, immunity, immunization, impedance, impediment, impenetrability, impugnation, impugnment, incorrigibility, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indomitability, inductive reactance, induration, infrangibility, inherent immunity, inherited immunity, inhibition, input resistance, insuppressibility, interference, internal friction, interruption, intractability, intractableness, intransigence, irregular, irrepressibility, isolation, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lastingness, leatherlikeness, let, magnetic reluctance, maquis, maquisard, mutinousness, natural immunity, negation, negative taxis, negativism, nolition, nonconformity, nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, nuisance value, obduracy, obstinacy, obstreperousness, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, ohm, ohmage, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, oppugnation, opsonic immunity, output resistance, overcompensation, partisan, passive immunity, perfunctoriness, perverseness, phagocytic immunity, projection, protection, psychological block, psychological defenses, psychotaxis, racial immunity, rationalization, reactance, reaction, rebelliousness, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, reluctivity, renitence, renitency, repercussion, repression, repugnance, resistance fighter, restiveness, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, revolt, rolling friction, ropiness, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, setback, shrewishness, skin effect, skin friction, sliding friction, slip friction, slowness, sociological adjustive reactions, solidity, specific immunity, specific reluctance, squeeze, stamina, standing against, starting friction, static friction, steeliness, stiffness, stoniness, stranglehold, strength, stricture, stringiness, stubbornness, sublimation, substitution, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, suppression, surface resistance, swimming upstream, tenacity, the defensive, toughness, toxin-antitoxin immunity, traversal, unbreakability, unbreakableness, uncontrollability, undercurrent, underground, underground fighter, unenthusiasm, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unwillingness, viscidity, vitality, volume resistance, ward, wildness, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal
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Opposition
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opposition, antagonism, oppugnancy, oppugnation, impugnation, contrariety, contravention, counteraction, counterplot, cross fire, undercurrent, head wind, clashing, collision, conflict, competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race, absence of aid, resistance, restraint, hindrance, opposing, opposed, adverse, antagonistic, contrary, at variance, at issue, at war with, unfavorable, unfriendly, hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious, in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn, up in arms, resistant, competitive, emulous, against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes, against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against the wind, against the tide, with a headwind, with the wind ahead, with the wind in one's teeth, in spite, in despite, in defiance, in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of, across, athwart, overthwart, where the shoe pinches, in spite of one's teeth, though, even, quand meme, per contra, nitor in adversum.
Defense
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defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.
Resistance
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resistance, stand, front, oppugnation, oppugnancy, opposition, renitence, renitency, reluctation, recalcitration, kicking, repulse, rebuff, insurrection, strike, turn out, lock out, barring out, levee en masse, Jacquerie, riot, resisting, resistive, resistant, refractory, recalcitrant, renitent, up in arms, repulsive, repellant, proof against, unconquerable, stubborn, unconquered, indomitable, unyielding, Int, hands off!, keep off!.
Counteraction
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counteraction, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, polarity, clashing, collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction, reaction, retroaction, counterblast, neutralization, vis inertiae, check, voluntary opposition &c, voluntary resistance, repression, opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety), counteracting, antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary, contrary, although, in spite of, against, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.