• auspicious, clement, congenial, fair, favorable, favourable, fortunate, friendly, propitious, prosperous, subservient
• favor, favour, preferment, subservience, subserviency
• auspiciously, favorably, favourably, propitiously
• allowance, preference, reduction
• adverse, disparaging, hard, inimical, unfavorable, unfavourable, unflattering
• ill, unfavorably, unfavourably
• chance, expedience, expediency, opportunity, vantage
• coign of vantage, place of vantage, point of vantage, stroke
• kick in the pants, set-back, setback
• a good opportunity presents itself