All make the grade antonyms

verb make the grade

• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• deplete — To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
• diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
• fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• deprive — If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• discontent — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• forfeit — a fine; penalty.
• mend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
• differ — to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
• mismatch — to match badly or unsuitably.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
• disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
• cannot — Cannot is the negative form of can1.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• commence — When something commences or you commence it, it begins.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• dissatisfy — to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.