V.  To curse, accurse, imprecate, scold, rail, execrate.

To denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate.

Adj.  Cursing, &c, cursed, &c.

THREAT, menace, defiance, abuse, commination, intimidation.

V.  To threaten, menace, defy, fulminate; to intimidate.

Adj.  Threatening, menacing, minatory, abusive.

The second reference leads us farther.  It presents the expressions dealing with the methods and results of denunciation, providing hundreds of words and phrases to use in various ways.  It does even more, for in a parallel column it gives a list of opposites for the words indicating condemnation.  This more than doubles its value.  Finally having reached the word punishment it lists its cognates until the idea penalty is reached, where it balances that idea with reward and its synonyms.  A portion of this section follows.

LAWSUIT, suit, action, cause, trial, litigation.

Denunciation, citation, arraignment, persecution, indictment, impeachment, apprehension, arrest, committal, imprisonment.

Pleadings, writ, summons, plea, bill, affidavit, &c.

Verdict, sentence, judgment, finding, decree, arbitrament, adjudication, award.

V.  To go to law; to take the law of; to appeal to the law; to join issue; file a bill, file a claim.

To denounce, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring to trial, indict, attach, distrain, to commit, give in charge or custody; throw into prison.

To try, hear a cause, sit in judgment.

To pronounce, find, judge, sentence, give judgment; bring in a verdict; doom, to arbitrate, adjudicate, award, report.

ACQUITTAL, absolution, see Pardon, 918, clearance, discharge, release, reprieve, respite.

Exemption from punishment; impunity.

V.  To acquit, absolve, clear, discharge, release, reprieve, respite.

Adj.  Acquitted, &c.

Uncondemned, unpunished, unchastised.

CONDEMNATION, conviction, proscription; death warrant.

Attainder, attainment.

V.  To condemn, convict, cast, find guilty, proscribe.

Adj.  Condemnatory, &c.

PUNISHMENT, chastisement, castigation, correction, chastening, discipline, infliction, etc.

An observer will see at once just how far these lists go and what must supplement them.  They do not define, they do not discriminate, they do not restrict.  They are miscellaneous collections.  A person must consult the dictionary or refer to some other authority to prevent error or embarrassment in use.  For instance, under the entry newspaper occurs the attractive word ephemeris.  But one should be careful of how and where he uses that word.