Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/17

• conspiracy, Anschluss, accompaniment, accordance, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, art, artful dodge, artifice, assimilation, association, blend, blending, blind, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, chicane, chicanery, co-working, coaction, coalescence, coalition, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort, combo, complicity, complot, composition, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, conn, connivance, connivery, consilience, consolidation, contrivance, contriving, cooperation, correspondence, counterplot, coup, covin, craft, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, design, device, dirty work, disloyalty, dodge, dodgery, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, engineering, enosis, expedient, faithlessness, fakement, falsity, federalization, federation, feint, fetch, finagling, finesse, foul play, frame-up, fusion, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intrigue, jugglery, junction, junta, knavery, league, little game, machination, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, marriage, meld, melding, merger, move, package, package deal, parasitism, perfidiousness, perfidy, pettifoggery, pettifogging, plot, plotting, ploy, practice, racket, red herring, rigging, ruse, saprophytism, scheme, schemery, scheming, sedition, sharp practice, shift, simultaneity, skulduggery, sleight, solidification, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie, symbiosis, synchronism, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergy, synthesis, tactic, tie-up, treacherousness, treachery, treason, trick, trickery, underhand dealing, underplot, unification, union, united action, web of intrigue, wedding, wile, wily device, wire-pulling

• conspirator, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Machiavellian, Quisling, abettor, accessory, accomplice, archtraitor, betrayer, cockatrice, coconspirator, conniver, conspirer, counterplotter, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, exploiter, finagler, informer, intrigant, intriguer, machinator, maneuverer, operator, opportunist, plotter, quisling, rat, schemer, serpent, snake, timeserver, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat, wire-puller

• conspire, accord, act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, ally, amalgamate, angle, associate, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, brew, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cement a union, centralize, club, club together, coact, coadunate, coalesce, cogitate, coincide, collaborate, collogue, collude, combine, come together, complot, concert, concoct, concord, concur, confederate, conjoin, connive, consociate, consolidate, contrive, cook up, cooperate, correspond, countermine, counterplot, couple, devise, do business with, engineer, federalize, federate, finagle, finesse, frame, frame up, fuse, gang, gang up, get heads together, get together, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, hang together, happen together, harmonize, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hold together, hook up, hook up with, intrigue, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up with, join with, keep together, lay a plot, league, league together, machinate, make common cause, maneuver, marry, merge, operate, organize, pair, pair off, partner, play ball, plot, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, rig, scheme, stand together, stand up with, synchronize, synergize, team up, team up with, team with, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wangle, wed, work together

• constable, G-man, John Law, MP, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bobby, bound bailiff, bull, captain, catchpole, chief of police, commissioner, cop, copper, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, fed, federal, flatfoot, flic, fuzz, gendarme, government man, inspector, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, paddy, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, reeve, roundsman, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, superintendent, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper

• constabulary, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bailiwick, bureau, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, county police, department, highway patrol, law enforcement agency, military police, ministry, municipality, office, police, police force, political police, posse, provincial police, riot police, secret police, secretariat, security force, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shore patrol, shrievalty, special police, state police, tactical police, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes

• constancy, abidingness, accordance, adherence, adhesion, age, allegiance, antiquity, aplomb, application, assiduity, assiduousness, attachment, balance, balanced personality, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, bulldog tenacity, calm, ceaselessness, changelessness, chattering, clockwork regularity, coeternity, commitment, concentration, consecutiveness, consistency, consonance, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuity, continuousness, cool, correspondence, daily round, dedication, defeat of time, defiance of time, devotedness, devotion, diligence, dingdong, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, drone, durability, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, engrossment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, eternalness, eternity, even pace, even tenor, evenness, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fealty, featurelessness, fidelity, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, foreverness, frozenness, fullness, gaplessness, good faith, hardening, homage, homeostasis, homogeneity, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, imperturbability, incessancy, indefatigability, indestructibility, industriousness, industry, infinite duration, infinity, inflexibility, insistence, insistency, interminability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, jointlessness, lastingness, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, loyalty, maintenance, methodicalness, monolithism, monologue, monotone, monotonousness, monotony, nerve, never-endingness, noninterruption, obstinacy, orderliness, oscillation, patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plenitude, plodding, plugging, preoccupation, pulsation, punctuality, quick fire, quiescence, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, regularity, relentlessness, reliability, repetition, resolution, rigidity, rootedness, sameliness, sameness, sang-froid, seamlessness, secureness, security, sedulity, sedulousness, sempiternity, settledness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, singsong, slogging, smoothness, solidity, soundness, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, staccato, stamina, standing, stasis, staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, steeliness, stick-to-itiveness, stubbornness, stuttering, substantiality, successiveness, survival, survivance, sustainment, systematicalness, tattoo, tenaciousness, tenacity, tie, timelessness, tirelessness, torpor, treadmill, tried-and-trueness, triedness, troth, true blue, trueness, unbrokenness, unceasingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, undeflectability, undeviation, undifferentiation, uniformity, unintermission, unintermittedness, uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unity, unrelievedness, unremittingness, unruffledness, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, unswerving attention, unvariation, unyieldingness, vibration

• constant, abiding, accordant, active, age-long, aged, ageless, alike, ancient, antique, ardent, articulated, assiduous, atom, atomic mass, atomic number, atomic weight, automatic, balanced, beaten, catenated, ceaseless, changeless, chattering, chronic, clinging, close, coeternal, colorfast, committed, compliant, concatenated, confirmed, conforming, connected, conscientious, consistent, consonant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, correspondent, cyclical, dateless, dedicated, deep-dyed, delicate, dependable, determined, devoted, devout, diligent, direct, diuturnal, dogged, double-dyed, durable, duteous, dutiful, dyed-in-the-wool, endless, enduring, equable, equal, eternal, eterne, even, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, evergreen, everlasting, everliving, exact, express, fadeless, faithful, fast, featureless, fine, firm, fixed, flat, flinty, frequent, frozen, gapless, habitual, hackneyed, hardy, homogeneous, immediate, immemorial, immobile, immovable, immutable, inalterable, incessant, incommutable, inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indelible, indestructible, indomitable, industrious, inerrable, inerrant, inert, infallible, infinite, inflexible, ingrain, ingrained, insistent, insusceptible of change, intact, interminable, intransient, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, joined, jointless, lasting, level, liege, linked, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loyal, machine gun, macrobiotic, marble-constant, mathematical, measured, mechanical, methodic, methodical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, mindful, monolithic, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, never-tiring, nice, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, observant, obstinate, of a piece, of long duration, of long standing, olamic, ordered, orderly, oscillating, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pinpoint, plodding, plugging, practicing, precise, preoccupied, pulsating, punctilious, punctual, quantum, quiescent, rapid, rapt, recurrent, recurring, refined, regardful, regular, regular as clockwork, relentless, religious, religiously exact, remaining, repeated, repetitive, resolute, reverseless, rigid, rigorous, robotlike, round-the-clock, routine, running, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, seamless, sedulous, sempervirent, sempiternal, serried, set, settled, severe, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, sot, square, stabile, stable, staccato, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, steely, stereotyped, straight, strict, stubborn, stuttering, subtle, sustained, systematic, tenacious, tested, timeless, tireless, torpid, tough, tried, tried and true, trite, true, true-blue, trusty, twenty-four-hour, unabating, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbending, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undiversified, undrooping, unending, unerring, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unmovable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unrelieved, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unruffled, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaken, unshifting, unsleeping, unstopped, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, valence, vibrating, vital, weariless, well-trodden, well-worn, without end

• constantly, ad infinitum, again and again, always, at a stretch, at all times, at every turn, at regular intervals, at stated times, bona fide, ceaselessly, connectedly, consistently, continually, continuously, cumulatively, cyclically, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, devotedly, endlessly, eternally, ever, ever and anon, everlastingly, every day, every hour, every moment, every so often, faithfully, firmly, hour after hour, hourly, in good faith, in perpetuity, incessantly, indestructibly, infinitely, interminably, intermittently, invariably, like clockwork, loyally, methodically, monotonously, month after month, never otherwise, never-endingly, night and day, on a stretch, on and on, on end, orderly, perdurably, perennially, permanently, perpetually, punctually, rapidly, regularly, repetitively, responsibly, right along, round the clock, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, sustainedly, systematically, time without end, together, unbrokenly, unceasingly, unendingly, uniformly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unrelievedly, unvaryingly, with good faith, without a break, without cease, without end, without exception, without letup, without stopping, world without end, year after year

• constellation, Antlia, Antlia Pneumatica, Apus, Aquarius, Ara, Big Dipper, Caela Sculptoris, Caelum, Camelopardus, Cancer, Columba Noae, Corona Australis, Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater, Crux, Dorado, Draco, Equuleus, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Gemini, Grus, Hercules, Horologium, Hydra, Lacerta, Leo, Leo Minor, Lepus, Libra, Little Dipper, Lupus, Lynx, Lyra, Malus, Mensa, Microscopium, Monoceros, Musca, Norma, Northern Cross, Octans, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Phoenix, Reticulum, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Sculptor, Scutum, Sextans, Southern Cross, Taurus, Telescopium, Triangulum, Triangulum Australe, Tucana, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Vela, Virgo, Volans, Vulpecula, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, big name, book of fate, celebrity, cup, cynosure, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, end, fatality, fate, figure, folk hero, foredoom, fortune, future, galaxy, great man, hero, heroine, ides of March, idol, immortal, important person, inevitability, kismet, lion, lot, luminaries, luminary, man of mark, master spirit, moira, name, notability, notable, person of note, personage, planets, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, portion, public figure, social lion, somebody, star, stars, superstar, the Balance, the Bull, the Crane, the Cross, the Crow, the Cup, the Dragon, the Fly, the Foal, the Hare, the Indian, the Lion, the Lizard, the Lynx, the Lyre, the Mast, the Octant, the Rule, the Sails, the Sea Serpent, the Serpent, the Serpent Bearer, the Sextant, the Southern Crown, the Swan, the Table, the Telescope, the Toucan, the Twins, the Unicorn, the Virgin, the Water Bearer, the Wolf, the Wreath, unlucky day, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, worthy

• consternation, abject fear, affright, alarm, awe, bewilderment, blue funk, confusion, cowardice, dismay, distraction, dread, fear, fright, funk, horrification, horror, muddle, muddlement, panic, panic fear, perplexity, phobia, scare, stampede, terror, trepidation, trepidity, unholy dread

• constipated, blocked, bound, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, congested, costive, foul, fouled, full, infarcted, jammed, obstipated, obstructed, packed, plugged, plugged up, stopped, stopped up, stuffed, stuffed up

• constipation, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bar, barrier, blank wall, bleeding, blennorhea, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, cachexia, cachexy, cardialgia, cecum, chill, chills, choking, choking off, cholera morbus, clog, colic, congestion, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, cul-de-sac, cyanosis, dead end, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, embolism, embolus, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, gorge, gripe, gripes, growth, heartburn, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, impasse, impediment, indigestion, infarct, infarction, inflammation, insomnia, irregularity, itching, jam, jaundice, labored breathing, lientery, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, pain, paralysis, pruritus, pyrosis, rash, rheum, sclerosis, sealing off, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, stop, stoppage, strangulation, tabes, tachycardia, trots, tumor, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting

• constituency, affiliates, ambit, associates, bailiwick, body of affiliates, citizenry, commonwealth, community, constituents, cultural community, dwellers, electoral college, electorate, electors, folk, footing, general public, habitancy, inhabitants, linguistic community, members, membership, nation, orbit, people, people at large, populace, population, public, society, speech community, sphere of influence, stamping ground, territory, turf, vantage, whole people

• constituent, ab ovo, adjunct, adoptive, air, appointive, appurtenance, aspect, atom, atomic particles, basal, basic, brute matter, building block, census, chemical element, choosing, choosy, circumstance, component, composition, constituents, constitutive, content, contents, detail, discriminating, division, divisions, earth, eclectic, elective, electoral, element, elemental, elementary, elementary particle, elementary unit, elements, essential, factor, feature, fire, fixings, formative, fraction, fundamental, fundamental particle, gut, guts, hyle, hypostasis, index, ingredient, ingredients, innards, insides, integral, integrant, inventory, item, items, list, makings, material, material world, materiality, matter, molecule, monad, natural world, nature, of the essence, original, part, part and parcel, particular, parts, physical world, plenum, portion, primal, primary, primitive, radical, selecting, selective, specialty, stuff, substance, substantial, substantive, substratum, the four elements, underlying, unit of being, water, whole

• constitute, assemble, authorize, build, build up, combine, complement, complete, compose, comprise, consist of, construct, create, declare lawful, decree, effect, effectuate, embody, enact, enact laws, enter into, establish, fabricate, filibuster, fill out, form, formulate, found, get the floor, go into, have the floor, inaugurate, incept, incorporate, install, institute, integrate, join, kill, legalize, legislate, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lobby through, logroll, make, make a regulation, make legal, make up, materialize, merge in, mix, ordain, organize, pass, piece together, pigeonhole, pocket, prescribe, put in force, put through, put together, railroad through, realize, regulate, roll logs, sanction, set up, start, structure, synthesize, table, take the floor, unite in, validate, veto, yield the floor

• constitution, Bill of Rights, act, allocation, allotment, anatomy, animus, apportionment, aptitude, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, array, arraying, assemblage, assembly, bent, bias, body-build, brand, build, building, buildup, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, collation, collocation, combination, complexion, composition, compound, concurrent resolution, conformation, constituents, constitutional amendment, constitutional guarantees, construction, crasis, creation, deployment, design, dharma, diathesis, disposal, disposition, distribution, eccentricity, effectuation, embodiment, enaction, enactment, establishment, ethos, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, fiber, forging, form, format, formation, formulation, foundation, frame, genius, getup, grain, habit, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inauguration, inception, inclination, incorporation, individualism, installation, institution, joint resolution, junction, kidney, kind, lawmaking, leaning, legislation, legislature, make, makeup, making, manufacture, marshaling, materialization, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mixture, mold, molding, nature, order, ordering, organic structure, organism, organization, passage, passing, pattern, patterning, physique, piecing together, placement, plan, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, production, propensity, property, putting together, quality, realization, regimentation, resolution, set, setting-up, setup, shape, shaping, slant, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, structure, structuring, suchness, syneresis, syntax, synthesis, system, tectonics, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, texture, tissue, tone, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, unwritten constitution, vein, warp, warp and woof, way, weave, web, written constitution

• constitutional, absolute, actionable, affective, airing, amble, ambulation, applicable, aristocratic, atavistic, athletics, authoritarian, authorized, autocratic, autonomous, beneficial, benign, bodily, born, bracing, breather, bureaucratic, calisthenics, characteristic, civic, civil, coeval, competent, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, daily dozen, deep-seated, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, dispositional, drill, emotional, essential, exercise, exercising, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, footwork, forced march, genetic, good, good for, governmental, gubernatorial, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, hereditary, heteronomous, hike, hygeian, hygienic, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, ingrained, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intellectual, intrinsic, invigorating, isometrics, jaunt, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, legwork, licit, march, matriarchal, matriarchic, mental, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, mush, native, native to, natural, natural to, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, organic, parade, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, perambulation, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, physical, physical education, physical jerks, pluralistic, political, practice, primal, promenade, ramble, refreshing, republican, rightful, salubrious, salutary, sanctioned, sanitary, saunter, schlep, self-governing, setting-up exercises, spiritual, statutory, stretch, stroll, temperamental, theocratic, tonic, totalitarian, traipse, tramp, trudge, turn, valid, walk, walking tour, wholesome, within the law, workout, yoga

• constrain, abate, abridge, abstain, aggrieve, allay, alleviate, arrest, assuage, attemper, ban, bank the fire, bar, bastille, bear, bind, bit, blunt, bottle up, box up, bridle, cage, cause, cause to, chasten, check, cloister, coerce, compel, concuss, confine, contain, control, cool, cool off, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, crib, crowd, crush, curb, curtail, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, decelerate, deprive, detain, dictate, diminish, disallow, dompt, downplay, drive, dull, encage, enclose, enforce, enjoin, extenuate, fence in, force, govern, grieve, guard, have, hem in, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold down, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in custody, hold in leash, hold in restraint, hold up, hurt, immure, impel, impound, incarcerate, inhibit, injure, insist upon, intern, jail, jam, jug, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep under control, keep within bounds, lay, lay under restraint, lenify, lessen, lighten, make, mew, mew up, mitigate, moderate, modulate, necessitate, oblige, obtund, pain, palliate, pen, pen up, play down, pound, prison, prohibit, pull, pull in, push, quod, rail in, reduce, reduce the temperature, refrain, rein, rein in, restrain, restrict, retard, retrench, seal up, set back, shackle, shotgun, shut in, shut up, slacken, slow down, smother, snub, sober, sober down, soften, squab, squash, squeeze, squish, stifle, straiten, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, tie, tone down, tune down, underplay, use force upon, wall in, weaken, withhold

• constrained, Olympian, aloof, arrested, backward, bashful, blank, bridled, chastened, chilled, chilly, cold, controlled, cool, curbed, detached, discreet, distant, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, hushed, icy, impassive, impersonal, in check, in control, in hand, in leading strings, in remission, inaccessible, incommunicable, inhibited, introverted, limited, modest, noncommittal, offish, on leash, pent-up, quelled, quiet, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, retarded, reticent, retiring, shrinking, slowed down, softened, stable, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, tempered, unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, under control, under discipline, under restraint, unexpansive, ungenial, withdrawn

• constraint, abnegation, abstinence, aloofness, aplomb, arrest, arrestation, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, caging, calm, calmness, check, chilliness, circumscription, coaction, coercion, coldness, composure, compulsion, compulsiveness, confinement, conservatism, continence, control, cool, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, coolness, cramp, curb, curtailment, deceleration, denial, detachment, discipline, discreetness, discretion, dispassion, distance, drive, driving, duress, enforcement, evenness, exigency, expressionlessness, forbearance, forcing, frigidity, frostiness, frugality, gentleness, goad, golden mean, guardedness, happy medium, hindrance, iciness, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, impelling, impersonality, impoundment, impulse, impulsion, inaccessibility, independence, inevitability, inhibition, injunction, interdict, introversion, irresistibility, judiciousness, juste-milieu, legal restraint, lenity, lockup, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modesty, monopoly, motive, necessity, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, obligation, obligement, pacifism, penning, pinch, possession, press, pressure, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, prudence, push, rash impulse, rationing, rein, remoteness, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repression, reserve, reservedness, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction, retardation, reticence, reticency, retirement, retiring disposition, retrenchment, self-abnegation, self-command, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, serenity, slowing down, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, spring, spur, stability, standoffishness, steadiness, stress, subduedness, suppression, tariff wall, temperance, temperateness, thought control, tranquillity, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexcessiveness, unexpansiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, urge, urgency, via media, violence, withdrawal, withdrawnness

• constrict, abbreviate, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, block, block up, blockade, bolt, button, button up, chock, choke, choke off, circumscribe, clap, close, close off, close tight, close up, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, confine, consolidate, constrain, constringe, contain, contract, cover, cramp, crowd, curb, curtail, debar, decrease, diminish, dog, draw, draw in, draw together, fasten, fold, fold up, gather, go in, jam, key, knit, latch, limit, lock, lock out, lock up, narrow, obstruct, occlude, pack, padlock, plait, plumb, pucker, pucker up, purse, reduce, restrain, restrict, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shorten, shrink, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, slam, snap, snape, solidify, squeeze, squeeze shut, stifle, stop up, straiten, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, taper, wrinkle, zip up, zipper

• constricted, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blank, blind, blind-alley, borne, cecal, choked, choked off, circumscribed, clamped, close, close-fitting, closed, compressed, concentrated, condensed, confined, consolidated, contracted, cramp, cramped, creedbound, crowded, dead, dead-end, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, incommodious, insular, isthmian, isthmic, knitted, limited, little, little-minded, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, nipped, parochial, petty, pinched, pinched-in, provincial, puckered, purblind, pursed, restricted, scant, scanty, shortsighted, shut, slender, small, small-minded, solidified, squeezed, squeezed shut, strait, straitlaced, strangled, strangulated, stuffy, tight, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

• constriction, abbreviation, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, astriction, astringency, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, cervix, check, circumscription, clogging, closing up, closure, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constringency, contraction, contracture, cramp, curtailment, decrease, delay, detainment, detention, diminuendo, fixation, foot-dragging, hampering, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, hourglass, hourglass figure, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, isthmus, knitting, let, narrow place, narrowing, neck, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, puckering, pursing, reduction, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, shortening, solidification, squeeze, stranglehold, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, suppression, systole, taper, tapering, wasp waist, wrinkling

• construct, architecture, assemble, build, build up, building, cast, combine, compose, compound, concoct, consist of, constitute, construction, create, devise, edifice, elaborate, embody, enter into, erect, erection, establish, establishment, evolve, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, frame, fudge together, get up, go into, house, incorporate, indite, invent, join, make, make up, manufacture, mature, merge in, mix, mold, organize, packaged house, patch together, piece together, pile, prefab, prefabricate, prefabrication, prepare, produce, put together, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, run up, set, set up, shape, skyscraper, structure, superstructure, synthesize, tower, unite in, uprear, whomp up, write

• construction, acronym, acrostic, adjectival phrase, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, avyayibhava, back formation, build, building, buildup, casting, clause, clipped word, combination, composition, compound, conformation, conjugate, constitution, construct, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, definition, description, design, devising, diagnosis, dvandva, dvigu, edifice, elaboration, embodiment, endocentric compound, erection, establishment, exegesis, exocentric compound, explanation, explication, expose, exposition, expression, extraction, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, getup, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, headed group, house, idiom, idiotism, incorporation, interpretation, junction, locution, machining, make, makeup, making, manner of speaking, manufacture, manufacturing, meaning, milling, mining, mixture, mold, molding, noun phrase, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, paragraph, paronym, pattern, patterning, peculiar expression, period, phrasal idiom, phrase, physique, piecing together, pile, plan, prefab, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, production, putting together, pyramid, raising, reading, refining, sentence, set phrase, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, spoonerism, standard phrase, structure, structuring, superstructure, syneresis, syntactic structure, synthesis, tatpurusha, tectonics, term, texture, tissue, tower, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, warp and woof, way of seeing, way of speaking, weave, web, word form, word-group, workmanship

• constructive, advantageous, aidful, beneficial, causative, conducive, construable, constructional, contributory, creative, deduced, definitional, demiurgic, derived, descriptive, diagnostic, exegetic, formative, furthersome, generative, good for, helpful, hermeneutic, implicit, inferential, inferred, interpretable, interpretational, interpretive, inventive, originative, positive, practicable, practical, productive, profitable, ratiocinative, remedial, renderable, salutary, semeiological, serviceable, symptomatological, therapeutic, tropological, useful, virtual

• construe, English, define, describe, diagnose, explicate, expound, interpret, read, read into, render, spell out, take, take it that, take to mean, transcribe, translate, transliterate, turn into, understand, understand by

• consul, ambassador, ambassadress, apostolic delegate, attache, career diplomat, chancellor, charge, commercial attache, consul general, consular agent, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, foreign service officer, internuncio, legate, military attache, minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, nuncio, plenipotentiary, resident, secretary of legation, vice-consul, vice-legate

• consulate, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, bishopric, booking office, box office, branch, branch office, building, cabinet, casa, chairmanship, chambers, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chancery, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, cliff dwelling, closet, consulship, corporate headquarters, country house, country seat, dacha, deanery, den, dictatorship, dictature, directorship, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, emirate, episcopacy, erection, executive office, fabric, farm, farmhouse, governorship, hall, headquarters, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, home office, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, leadership, legation, living machine, lodge, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, main office, manor house, manse, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nobility, office, papacy, parsonage, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, penthouse, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, prefabricated house, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidential palace, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, ranch house, rectorate, rectorship, rectory, regency, regentship, roof, ruling class, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shop, shrievalty, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, study, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, ticket office, town house, tribunate, vicarage, vizierate, viziership

• consult, GO, advise, advise with, bargain, blow, call in, cast away, cogitate, collogue, compare notes, confab, confabulate, confer, confer with, consider, consult with, counsel, deliberate, devour, discuss, discuss with, dissipate, drivel, eat, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, exhaust, expend, feed on, finish, fritter, have conversations, hold conference, huddle, ingest, inquire of, interrogate, look up, meal, negotiate, palaver, parley, partake of, powwow, put heads together, question, reason with, refer to, run through, sit down together, sit down with, spend, squander, take, take counsel, take counsel with, take up with, talk over, throw away, treat, trifle away, use up, wash up

• consultant, Admirable Crichton, Dutch uncle, Polonius, adept, admonisher, adviser, advisor, artisan, artist, attache, authority, backseat driver, buttinsky, confidant, connaisseur, connoisseur, cordon bleu, counsel, counselor, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, diplomat, diplomatist, doctor, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, graduate, guide, handy man, instructor, journeyman, kibitzer, marksman, meddler, mentor, monitor, nestor, no slouch, orienter, physician, politician, preceptist, pro, professional, professor, proficient, savant, shark, sharp, specialist, statesman, teacher, technical adviser, technician

• consultation, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, audience, bargaining, bargaining session, briefing, caution, caveat, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, convention, council, council fire, council of war, counsel, direction, discussion, exchange of views, exhortation, expostulation, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, guidance, high-level talk, hortation, huddle, idea, instruction, interchange of views, interview, meeting, monition, negotiations, news conference, opinion, palaver, parley, pourparler, powwow, press conference, proposal, recommendation, remonstrance, seance, session, sitting, suggestion, summit, summit conference, summitry, thought, warning

• consume, Sanforize, abate, ablate, absorb, annihilate, assimilate, atomize, atrophy, attenuate, bate, be eaten away, bestow, bleed white, blow, break up, bring to ruin, burn down, burn up, come apart, condemn, confound, consecrate to, consume away, corrode, crack up, cremate, crumble, crumble into dust, damn, deal destruction, decay, decimate, decline, decompose, decrease, dedicate to, deliquesce, demolish, deplete, depreciate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devote, devour, die away, digest, diminish, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dispatch, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, dive, do in, down, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, drink up, drop, drop off, dry up, dwindle, eat, eat up, ebb, emacerate, emaciate, employ, engorge, engross, erode, exhaust, expend, fall, fall away, fall off, fall to pieces, finish, finish off, fission, fritter away, get away with, get down, give over to, give to, gobble, gobble up, gorge, gulp, gulp down, gut, gut with fire, guzzle, havoc, impoverish, incendiarize, incinerate, ingest, inhale, languish, lavish, lay in ruins, lay waste, lessen, let up, lose, macerate, melt away, molder, obsess, occupy, overcome, overwhelm, parch, pass, pine away, plummet, plunge, polish off, preoccupy, preshrink, punish, put away, put down, put in, ravage, raze, reduce, reduce to ashes, ruin, ruinate, run low, run to seed, run to waste, sag, sear, sew up, shift, shipwreck, shrink, shrivel, sink, spend, spill, split, squander, subside, suck dry, surround, swallow, swallow up, swill, tail off, take down, take in, thin, throw away, throw into disorder, total, tuck in, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, use up, vandalize, vaporize, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wear out, weazen, while, while away, wile, wither, wither away, wizen, wolf, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• consumed, Sanforized, abated, ablated, adust, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bated, belittled, blistered, burned, burnt, burnt up, burnt-up, by the board, consumed by fire, contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted, diminished, dissipated, down the drain, drained, dried-up, dropped, eaten up, effete, emacerated, emaciated, eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, finished, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone to waste, gutted, impoverished, incinerated, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent, out the window, parched, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, reduced, retrenched, run to seed, scaled-down, scorched, sear, seared, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, singed, smaller, spent, squandered, sunburned, thin, used, used up, wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened, weazened, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, worn-out

• consumer, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, browser, buyer, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, customer agent, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, employer, emptor, enjoyer, epicure, feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, marketer, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, purchaser, purchasing agent, shopper, trencherman, user, vegetarian, vendee, window-shopper

• consumerism, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, cornering, emption, hire purchase, impulse buying, installment buying, mail-order buying, marketing, money illusion, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, rebuying, repurchase, shopping, shopping spree, window-shopping

• consuming, absorbing, agonizing, arresting, attractive, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, excruciating, fascinating, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, gripping, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, holding, hypnotic, internecine, magnetic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, monopolize, nihilist, nihilistic, obsessing, obsessive, racking, ravaging, rending, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, spellbinding, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tormenting, torturous, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering

• consummate, able, absolute, accomplish, accomplished, achieve, acmatic, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apical, archetypical, arrant, attain, born, broad-based, cap, capital, chief, classic, classical, clean, clear, climax, compass, complete, comprehensive, conclude, congenital, crass, crest, crown, culminate, deal with, decided, deep-dyed, definitive, developed, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effect, effectuate, egregious, enact, end, execute, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, faultless, fetch, finish, finished, flagrant, flawless, frost, fulfill, fully developed, fully realized, gifted, glaring, gross, halt, head, headmost, highest, ice, impeccable, inimitable, intensive, intolerable, knock off, make, manage, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, model, omnibus, omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, outtop, overarch, overmost, overtop, paramount, peak, peerless, perfect, perfected, perform, pervasive, plain, plumb, polish off, polished, positive, practiced, precious, preeminent, produce, proficient, profound, pronounced, proper, pure, put away, quintessential, radical, rank, realize, refined, regular, ripe, ripened, shattering, sheer, shocking, skilled, stark, stark-staring, straight, succeed, summital, superb, superlative, supreme, surmount, surpassing, sweeping, take care of, talented, terminate, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, tip, tip-top, top, top off, topmost, total, trained, transcendent, turn the trick, ubiquitous, ultimate, unbearable, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, unrestricted, unspoiled, unsurpassable, upmost, uppermost, utter, veritable, vertical, virtuosic, wholesale, wind up, work, work out, wrap up, zenithal

• consummation, Z, accomplished fact, accomplishing, accomplishment, achievement, achieving, acme, acme of perfection, apodosis, attaining, attainment, bitter end, carrying out, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, climax, closure, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, discharge, dispatch, doom, effect, effectuation, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, execution, expiration, fait accompli, fate, final result, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, fruition, fulfilling, fulfillment, goal, height, highest pitch, implementation, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last word, last words, latter end, mission accomplished, ne plus ultra, omega, payoff, peak, perfection, performance, period, peroration, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, production, quietus, realization, realizing, resolution, resting place, stoppage, stopping place, success, summit, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, top, topping-off, ultimate, windup

• consumption, Sanforizing, TB, ablation, active use, aerogenic tuberculosis, appetite, appliance, application, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cerebral tuberculosis, chewing, colliquation, corrosion, cropping, damnation, decimation, decrease, decrement, deglutition, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, disseminated tuberculosis, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drying, drying up, eating, emaceration, emaciation, employ, employment, epulation, erosion, evaporation, exercise, exertion, exhaustion, expenditure, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, good use, grazing, hard usage, hard use, havoc, hecatomb, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, holocaust, hunger, ill use, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, licking, loss, lupus vulgaris, manducation, marcescence, mastication, messing, misuse, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, parching, pasture, pasturing, pecking, perdition, phthisis, preshrinkage, pulmonary tuberculosis, ravage, regalement, relishing, rough usage, ruin, ruination, rumination, savoring, scrofula, scrofuloderma, searing, shambles, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, slaughter, spoliation, tasting, thinning, tuberculosis, tuberculosis cutis, tuberculosis luposa, tuberculous meningitis, undoing, usage, use, using, using up, vandalism, vegetarianism, wastage, waste, wasting, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, white plague, wilting, withering, wolfing, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong use

• consumptive, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, astringent, baneful, bilious, calamitous, cancerous, case, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chlorotic, colicky, collapsible, compactable, compressible, constringent, consuming, contractible, contractile, contractional, contractive, deadly, deflationary, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, fatal, fateful, foldable, fratricidal, incurable, inpatient, internecine, invalid, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, nihilist, nihilistic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, ravaging, rheumatic, rickety, ruining, ruinous, scorbutic, scrofulous, self-destructive, shut-in, sick person, spastic, styptic, subversionary, subversive, sufferer, suicidal, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering

• contact lens, Polaroid glasses, bifocals, blinkers, cheaters, colored glasses, dark glasses, divided spectacles, eyeglass, eyeglasses, glasses, goggles, granny glasses, harlequin glasses, horn-rimmed glasses, lorgnette, lorgnon, mini-specs, monocle, nippers, pair of glasses, peepers, quizzing glass, readers, reading glasses, shades, specs, spectacles, sun-specs, sunglasses, trifocals

• contact, ESP, accord, acquaintance, answer, approach, arbitrator, assail the ear, association, attouchement, be heard, breath, broker, brush, brush by, caress, caress the ear, closeness, come in contact, commerce, communicate with, communication, communion, companionship, concord, congress, conjunction, connection, contiguity, contingence, conversation, converse, correspond, correspond with, correspondence, cutaneous sense, dealing, dealings, empathy, establish connection, exchange, feel, feeling, fellowship, fingertip caress, flick, friend, gain a hearing, get, get across, get hold of, get through to, get to, glance, go-between, graze, hand-mindedness, harmony, hit, impinge, impingement, impingence, in, information, interaction, interagent, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, internuncio, interplay, interpleader, interrogate, junction, kiss, lambency, lap, lick, light touch, linguistic intercourse, maintain connection, make advances, make an impression, make contact with, make oneself heard, make overtures, make up to, mediator, medium, message, middleman, nearness, negotiant, negotiator, nudge, oneness, osculate, osculation, phone, propinquity, proximity, question, raise, rapport, reach, reach the ear, register, relate to, relation, reply, reply to, respond to, response, ring up, rub, scrape, sense of touch, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, social intercourse, speak to, speak with, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, squeak by, stroke, sympathy, tactile sense, taction, talking, tangency, tap, telepathy, telephone, tentative contact, tentative poke, touch, touching, traffic, truck, two-way communication, understanding, union, unity, whisper, write to

• contagious, assignable, catching, communicable, conductive, consignable, conveyable, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, expressable, impartable, infectious, infective, inoculable, interchangeable, mailable, malign, malignant, mephitic, metathetic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, movable, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, portable, portative, removable, sporadic, spreading, taking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transferable, transfusable, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, zymotic

• contain, accommodate, add up to, admit, affect, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, arrest, assimilate, assume, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bear, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bolt, bound, box in, bridle, bring, button, button up, cage, call for, carry, chamber, check, choke, choke off, clap, close, close in, close up, collect, come to, compass, complete, comprehend, comprise, condition, confine, constrain, constrict, contract, control, cool, cool off, coop, coop in, coop up, copyright, cordon, cordon off, corral, count in, cover, curb, curtail, decelerate, discipline, dompt, draw the line, embed, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, enjoin, enshrine, entail, envisage, fasten, fence in, fill, fill in, fill out, fold, fold up, govern, guard, hedge about, hedge in, hem in, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, house in, implicate, imply, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, incorporate, inhibit, internalize, involve, jail, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, keep within, kennel, key, latch, lay under restraint, lead to, leaguer, limit, lock, lock out, lock up, mew, mew up, moderate, mount up to, narrow, number, number among, occlude, occupy, padlock, patent, pen, pen in, plumb, pocket, presume, presuppose, prohibit, pull, pull in, put in, qualify, quarantine, rail in, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon up to, reckon with, register, rein, rein in, repress, require, restrain, restrict, retard, retrench, run into, run to, scant, seal, seal off, seal up, seat, secure, set back, shrine, shut, shut in, shut the door, shut up, slam, slow down, snap, snub, specialize, squeeze shut, stable, stifle, stint, straiten, strangle, subsume, suppress, surround, take, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, tot up to, total, tote up to, unitize, wall in, withhold, wrap, yard, yard up, zip up, zipper

• container, arena, cincture, close, confine, coop, court, courtyard, curtilage, delimited field, enclave, enclosure, field, fold, ground, list, pale, paling, park, pen, quad, quadrangle, square, theater, toft, yard

• containment, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, appeasement, balance of power, brinkmanship, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, coexistence, colonialism, compromise, detente, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, envelopment, environment, expansionism, foreign affairs, foreign policy, girding, girdling, good-neighbor policy, imperialism, inclusion, internationalism, involvement, isolationism, manifest destiny, militarism, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, preparedness, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, spheres of influence, surrounding, the big stick, tough policy, world politics

• contaminate, activate, adulterate, alloy, bastardize, befoul, benasty, canker, charge, cheapen, coarsen, confound, corrupt, cut, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denaturalize, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, dilute, dirty, disease, distort, doctor, doctor up, fortify, foul, harm, infect, injure, irradiate, lace, mess, mess up, misuse, nasty, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, radiumize, ravage, ravish, rot, soil, spike, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tamper with, tarnish, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, water, water down

• contaminated, abandoned, activated, autoluminescent, bad, bad for, cankered, charged, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, diseased, dissolute, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, hot, impure, infected, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, irradiated, morally polluted, morbid, morbific, mortified, noisome, nonkosher, noxious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, perverted, pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, profligate, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, reprobate, ritually unclean, rotten, septic, sphacelated, steeped in iniquity, tainted, tref, ulcerated, ulcerous, unbathed, unclean, uncleanly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unpure, unsanitary, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unwashed, unwholesome, unwiped, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped

• contemn, abhor, abjure, be above, be contemptuous of, brush aside, care nothing for, chuck, chuck out, contradict, decline, deny, deride, despise, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, dismiss, disown, disparage, disprize, disregard, dump on, except, exclude, feel contempt for, feel superior to, forswear, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, ignore, insult, look down upon, misprize, pass by, pass up, push aside, put down, rank low, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, ridicule, scorn, scout, set at naught, shove away, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, spurn, think nothing of, throw away, throw out, turn away, turn out, waive

• contemplate, aim, anticipate, be abstracted, bear in mind, behold, bone, brood, brood over, chew over, chew the cud, con, consider, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, design, dig, digest, dread, drift, drill, elucubrate, entertain thoughts of, envisage, envision, examine, excogitate, expect, eye, face, foreglimpse, foresee, foretaste, give the eye, give the once-over, go over, grind, harbor an idea, hard look, have in mind, have in view, have thoughts about, hold an idea, hold the thought, hope, image, imagine, inspect, intend, introspect, keep in mind, leer, leer at, look ahead, look at, look beyond, look forward to, look over, look upon, lucubrate, mean, meditate, mind, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, observe, ogle, ogle at, perpend, peruse, plan, play around with, play with, plunge into, ponder, ponder over, pore, pore over, practice, predict, presume, read, reflect, regard, regard studiously, restudy, review, roam, ruminate, ruminate over, scan, scrutinize, see, see ahead, see beforehand, size up, speculate, study, survey, swot, take a long, take for granted, take stock of, think, think about, think of, think over, toy with, vet, view, visualize, wade through, weigh

• contemplation, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, a wise passiveness, absorbed attention, absorption, advisement, aid prayer, anticipation, appeal, application, ataraxia, ataraxy, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, boning, brainwork, breviary, brooding, calmness, certainty, chaplet, collect, communion, composure, concentration, confidence, conning, consideration, contemplative life, counsel, cram, cramming, deep study, deep thought, deliberation, devotions, discretion, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, drill, engagement, engrossment, entreaty, envisagement, envisionment, examination, exercise, expectancy, expectation, extensive study, eyeball inspection, farseeingness, farsightedness, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, grace, grind, grinding, headwork, idleness, immersion, imminence, immobility, imperturbability, impetration, imploration, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inspection, intentness, intercession, invocation, involvement, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, litany, longsightedness, looking ahead, lucid stillness, lucubration, marmoreal repose, meditation, mental labor, monomania, musing, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nirvana, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obsecration, obsession, obtestation, ocular inspection, orison, overview, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peace, peacefulness, perusal, petition, placidity, placidness, policy, pondering, practice, prayer, prayer wheel, prediction, preoccupation, preparation, prepublication, preview, prevision, probability, procrastination, profound thought, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prudence, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, rapt attention, readiness, reading, reflection, reliance, repose, rest, restfulness, restudy, restudying, review, revolving, rogation, rosary, rumination, sagacity, satori, scrutiny, serenity, silence, silent prayer, silken repose, single-mindedness, sleep, slumber, speculation, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stillness, studiousness, study, studying, subject, submersion, suit, supplication, survey, swotting, thanks, thanksgiving, the eye, thought, tranquillity, unastonishment, vegetation, vetting, visual examination, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, weighing, wide reading, wise passiveness

• contemporaneous, accompanying, actual, agreeing, as is, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, conterminous, coterminous, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, modern, new, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, running, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that is, topical, unison, unisonous, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute

• contemporary, a la mode, abreast, accompanying, actual, advanced, agreeing, as is, associated, attendant, attending, au courant, avant-garde, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, coincidental, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, connected, contemporaneous, conterminous, coterminous, current, dead heat, draw, existent, existing, extant, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, fresh, immanent, immediate, in, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, linked, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfangled, newfashioned, novel, now, parallel, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, progressive, red-hot, related, running, simultaneous, streamlined, stylish, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that is, tie, topical, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, unison, unisonous, up, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out

• contempt, abhorrence, abjuration, abjurement, affront, antipathy, arrogance, aspersion, atrocity, audacity, aversion, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, brickbat, bumptiousness, cheekiness, chucking, chucking out, cockiness, contemptuousness, contradiction, contumacy, contumely, cut, daring, daringness, declination, declining, defial, defiance, defying, denial, denigration, deprecation, depreciation, derision, despisal, despising, despite, disapproval, discard, disclamation, discommendation, discounting, discredit, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disgust, dishonor, dismissal, disownment, disparagement, dispraise, disregard, disrepute, disrespectfulness, distaste, disvaluation, dump, enormity, exception, exclusion, face of brass, flippancy, flout, flouting, freshness, gibe, hate, hatred, humiliation, ignominy, ignoring, impertinence, impudence, indignity, infamy, injury, insolence, insult, jeer, jeering, loathing, mock, mockery, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, odium, offense, opprobrium, outrage, passing by, pertness, put-down, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recalcitrance, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, repudiation, repugnance, repulse, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, scoff, scorn, scouting, scurrility, shame, spurning, stubbornness, taunt, throwing out, turning out, uncomplimentary remark

• contemptible, abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, crude, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outcast, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unclean, unmentionable, unworthy, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

• contemptuous, abjuratory, abusive, arrogant, audacious, back-biting, belittling, biggety, bitchy, blackening, blameful, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier, censorious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, clannish, cliquish, cocky, condemnatory, contumelious, crusty, damnatory, daring, declinatory, defamatory, defiant, defying, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despising, detractory, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, exclusive, execrating, execrative, execratory, facy, flip, flippant, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, haughty, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, malapert, minimizing, nervy, objurgatory, pejorative, pert, priggish, regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, scandalous, scoffing, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, uncalled-for, vilifying, vituperative, wise-ass, withering

• contend for, advocate, allege in support, answer, argue for, assert, bid for, champion, counter, defend, espouse, fight for, maintain, make a plea, plead for, pull for, rebut, refute, reply, respond, riposte, say in defense, speak for, speak up for, stand up for, stick up for, stickle for, stipulate for, strain for, strive for, struggle for, support, sustain, try for, uphold, urge reasons for, vie for

• contend with, a outrance, bandy with, battle, battle it out, bump heads, care for, challenge, complain, complain loudly, confront, cope with, cross swords with, deal with, dispute, dissent, do with, engage with, exchange shots, face down, face out, face up to, fight like devils, fight with, front, go to loggerheads, grapple with, handle, have it out, kick against, lock horns, make a stand, manage, measure swords with, meet head-on, object, offer resistance, oppose, protest, recalcitrate, reluct, remonstrate, revolt, settle it, show fight, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, steward, strive against, strive with, struggle with, tangle with, tilt with, treat, try conclusions with, use, withstand, wrestle with

• contend, affirm, agonize, allege, announce, annunciate, antagonize, argue, argufy, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, bandy words, battle, beat against, beat up against, bicker, bicker over, box, brawl, breast the wave, broil, brook no denial, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, bump heads, cavil, charge, choplogic, claim, clash, close, close with, collide, combat, come to blows, compete with, confront, contend about, contend against, contest, contrapose, contraposit, contrast, cope with, counteract, cross swords, cut and thrust, declare, defend, dictate, discept, dispute, duel, encounter, enjoin, enunciate, exchange blows, express, face, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fight against, fight over, front, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, grunt and sweat, hassle, have, have it out, hold, huff and puff, insist, insist on, insist upon, issue a manifesto, join battle with, join issue, jostle, joust, justify, labor against, lay down, lie opposite, lock horns, logomachize, maintain, manifesto, match, meet, meet head-on, militate against, mix it up, moot, offer resistance, oppose, oppugn, persist, pettifog, plead, polarize, polemicize, polemize, pose against, predicate, prescribe, press, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put, put in opposition, put it, quarrel, quarrel over, quibble, rassle, reluct, reluctate, report, resist, riot, rival, run a tilt, say, scramble, scuffle, set down, set over against, skirmish, spar, speak, speak out, speak up, squabble over, stand, stand for, stand on, stand opposed, stand opposite, state, stem the tide, stick to, strive, strive against, struggle, struggle against, submit, subtend, take issue with, take no denial, take on, take sides, tell, thrash out, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, try conclusions, tug, tussle, urge, vie, vie with, vindicate, wage war, war, warrant, withstand, wrangle, wrangle over, wrestle

• contender, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contestant, corrival, disputant, duelist, emulator, enforcer, entrant, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, militant, player, plug-ugly, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, the field, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, vier, wrangler

• content, acceptance, accepting, accommodation, accordant, achieve inner harmony, acquiescent, acquiescing, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, amusement, animal pleasure, appease, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, at ease, bewitch, bodily pleasure, burden, capacity, captivate, carnal delight, census, charm, charmed, cheer, cheerful, comfort, comfortable, compliable, compliant, components, composed, composition, composure, conceding, concessive, consentient, consenting, constituents, contented, contentedness, contentment, contents, cooperative, cordage, coziness, cozy, creature comforts, delight, delighted, disposed, divisions, docile, eager, ease, easy, easygoing, elements, endorsing, endpleasure, enjoyment, enrapture, entertainment, enthusiastic, entire satisfaction, essence, eupeptic, euphoria, euphoric, exhilarated, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably impressed with, favorably inclined, felicity, forepleasure, forward, fruition, fulfilled, fulfillment, fun, game, glad, gladden, gladsome, gratification, gratified, gratify, great satisfaction, gusto, guts, happiness, happy, hearty enjoyment, import, in clover, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, index, ingredients, innards, insides, intellectual pleasure, intrigued, inventory, items, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, limit, list, load, luxury, measure, minded, nothing loath, of good comfort, part, parts, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, permissive, physical pleasure, please, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, pleasure, pliant, poundage, predisposed, prompt, prone, purport, put at ease, quantity, quick, quiet pleasure, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, reconcilement, reconciliation, relish, resignation, resigned, responsive, room, sanctioning, sans souci, satisfaction, satisfied, satisfy, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, serenity, set at ease, sexual pleasure, significance, size, sold on, soothe, space, stowage, submissive, substance, sweetness of life, taken with, text, theme, thesis, thrill, thrilled, tickle, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, titillation, tonnage, topic, tractable, tranquillity, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, unrepining, volume, voluptuousness, well-being, well-disposed, well-inclined, whole, willed, willing, willinghearted, without care, zealous, zest

• contention, Discordia, Eris, altercation, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, argumentative, bellicose, belligerence, belligerent, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, bucking, captious, carping, casuistry, caviling, challenge, clash, clashing, collision, combative, conflict, confrontation, confrontment, contentious, contestation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrary, contrast, contravention, contraversion, controversial, controversy, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defense, denial, despitefulness, difference, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disputation, disputatious, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, faultfinding, feud, fiery, fight, fliting, flyting, fracas, friction, froward, fuss, hassle, hasty, hate, hatred, head wind, hostility, hotheaded, hubbub, hurrah, imbroglio, impetuous, impugnation, impugnment, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jangle, jar, litigation, litigious, logomachy, malevolence, malice, malignity, militant, mischief, negation, noncooperation, open conflict, open quarrel, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, paper war, passage of arms, peppery, perverse, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, polemic, polemical, polemics, posing against, pugnacious, quarrel, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, rebutment, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, repugnance, resistance, rhubarb, rub, rumpus, scrappy, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, spite, spitefulness, squabble, standing against, strained relations, strife, tension, tiff, traversal, truculent, tussle, undercurrent, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, variance, vendetta, verbal engagement, war of words, warlike, words, wrangle, wrangling

• contentious, aggravating, aggravative, aggressive, annoying, antagonistic, argumental, argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, enemy, eristic, exasperating, exasperative, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, ill-humored, inimical, irritating, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious, logomachic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, pilpulistic, polemic, pro and con, provocative, pugnacious, quarrelsome, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, soldierlike, soldierly, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring

• contents, acknowledgments, adjunct, appurtenance, aspect, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, card index, catch line, catchword, chart, circumstance, colophon, component, constituent, contents page, copyright page, dedication, detail, element, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, factor, feature, fixings, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, half-title page, head, imprint, index, ingredient, inscription, integrant, introduction, item, leaf, makeup, makings, page, part, part and parcel, preface, preliminaries, recto, reverso, running title, signature, specialty, subtitle, table, table of contents, tail, text, thumb index, title, title page, trim size, type page, verso

• conterminous, accompanying, adjacent, adjoining, agreeing, bordering, buck, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, combat, concomitant, concurrent, connecting, contemporaneous, contemporary, contend, contiguous, coterminous, dispute, duel, end to end, endeavor, endways, endwise, face to face, fight, immediate, isochronal, isochronous, joined, juxtaposed, neighbor, neighboring, next, oppose, repel, rival, simultaneous, traverse, unison, unisonous, vie, withstand

• contest, Kilkenny cats, Olympic games, Olympics, abjure, action, altercation, antagonize, argue, argufy, argument, assert the contrary, awake a doubt, bandy words, battle, be contrary to, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beat against, beat up against, belie, bicker, bicker over, bickering, bout, box, brawl, breast the wave, broil, brush, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, call in question, call into question, cat-and-dog life, cavil, challenge, championship, choplogic, clash, close, close with, collide, combat, come to blows, compete with, competition, concours, conflict, confute, contend, contend about, contend against, contention, contentiousness, contestation, contradict, contravene, controversy, controvert, counter, cross, cross swords, cut and thrust, debate, decathlon, deny, derby, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, discept, disclaim, disown, disprove, disputation, dispute, distrust, double-header, doubles, doubt, duel, emulation, encounter, engagement, enmity, event, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fight against, fight over, fighting, forswear, foursome, gainsay, game, games, games of chance, give and take, give satisfaction, go, grapple, grapple with, greet with skepticism, gymkhana, half believe, harbor suspicions, hassle, have it out, have reservations, hostility, impugn, join battle with, join issue, join issue upon, jostle, joust, labor against, litigation, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, match, matching, meet, meeting, militate against, misgive, mistrust, mix it up, moot, negate, not accept, not admit, nullify, object to, offer resistance, oppose, oppugn, paper war, pentathlon, pettifog, play, play-off, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemize, proving, quarrel, quarrel over, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, query, question, quibble, race, raise a question, rally, rassle, rebut, recant, refuse to admit, refute, reject, reluct, reluctate, rencontre, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, riot, rival, rivalry, run a tilt, runoff, scramble, scrapping, scruple, scuffle, singles, skirmish, smell a rat, spar, sport, squabble over, squabbling, stem the tide, strife, strive, strive against, striving, struggle, struggle against, suspect, take back, take issue with, take on, take sides, test, testing, thrash out, threesome, throw doubt upon, thrust and parry, tilt, tournament, tourney, traverse, treat with reserve, trial, try conclusions, trying, tug-of-war, tussle, twosome, vie with, wage war, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangle over, wrangling, wrestle

• contestant, adversary, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, carouser, combatant, competitor, contender, corrival, cutup, disputant, duelist, emulator, enforcer, entrant, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frisker, frolicker, funmaker, gamboler, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, merrymaker, militant, opponent, participant, playboy, player, pleasure-seeker, pleasurer, pleasurist, plug-ugly, quarreler, reveler, rioter, rival, rollicker, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, skylarker, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, the field, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, vier, wrangler

• context, alentours, ambiance, ambience, ambit, background, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, existing conditions, frame of reference, framework, full particulars, gestalt, habitat, ins and outs, milieu, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, set of conditions, setting, situation, status quo, structure, suburbs, surround, surroundings, total environment, total situation, vicinage, vicinity, whole picture

• contiguity, abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition, approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, conterminousness, contiguousness, contrariety, coterminousness, dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, homology, immediacy, intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, perigee, perihelion, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, syzygy, tie, tie-in, union

• contiguous, abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering, close, close-by, connecting, conterminous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, next, nigh, touching

• continence, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Platonic love, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abnegation, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, avoidance, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, banyan day, boundary, bounds, calm, calmness, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, confinement, conservatism, constraint, continency, control, cool, discipline, dispassion, eschewal, evenness, fast, fish day, fruitarianism, gentleness, golden mean, gymnosophy, happy medium, impartiality, intactness, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, limit, limitation, maidenhead, maidenhood, meden agan, middle way, mildness, misogamy, misogyny, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monachism, monasticism, nephalism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, plain living, prescription, proscription, prudence, purity, qualification, refraining, refrainment, repose, restrain, restraint, restriction, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sexual abstinence, simple diet, single blessedness, single state, singleness, sobriety, spare diet, spinsterhood, stability, steadiness, teetotalism, temperance, temperateness, the pledge, total abstinence, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unwed state, vegetarianism, via media, virgin state, virginity

• continent, Africa, America, Antipodes, Apostolic, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Encratic, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Lenten, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, Platonic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, West, Western Hemisphere, abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, bridled, celibate, chaste, curbed, down under, eastland, fruitarian, inhibited, intact, landmass, maidenly, nephalistic, on the wagon, pure, restrained, sexually abstinent, sober, sworn off, teetotal, temperate, the old country, vegetarian, vestal, virgin, virginal

• contingency, accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, aptitude, aptness, auxiliary, bare possibility, blind bargain, borderline case, break, casualty, chance, chance hit, circumstance, collateral, coming to be, conceivability, conceivableness, condition, conjuncture, contingent, correlation, crisis, crossroads, dependence, double contingency, emergency, even chance, event, eventuality, eventuation, exigency, extra, fluke, fortuity, freak accident, gamble, good chance, good possibility, guess, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, hope, incidence, incident, incidental, inessential, interrelation, juncture, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, long odds, long shot, lucky shot, materialization, mere chance, nonessential, not-self, obligation, occasion, occurrence, off chance, open question, opportunity, other, outside chance, outside hope, pass, piece of guesswork, pinch, possibility, possibleness, potential, potentiality, probability, proneness, prospect, question, realization, relativity, remote possibility, secondary, sight-unseen transaction, small hope, strait, subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, toss-up, touch and go, turning point, undecided issue, unessential, virtuality, wager, weakness, what is possible, what may be, what might be, zero hour

• contingent on, arising from, attributable to, based on, boxed in, caused by, circumscribed by, coming from, contingent, dependent, dependent on, depending, depending on, depending on circumstances, derivable from, due to, hedged about by, hinging on, incident to, incidental to, occasioned by, owing to, predicated on, resulting from, revolving on, subject to, turning on

• contingent, accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious, adventure, age group, aleatory, allotment, allowance, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, at issue, auxiliary, band, based on, battalion, bevy, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, body, boxed in, brigade, brushing, budget, bunch, cabal, cast, casual, casualty, causeless, chance, chance hit, chancy, chunk, circumscribed by, circumstantial, clique, cogitable, cohort, collateral, coming, coming to be, commission, company, complement, component, conceivable, conceivably possible, conditional, conditioned, contacting, contingency, contingent on, corps, coterie, covey, crew, cross section, crowd, cut, deal, dependent, dependent on, depending, depending on, depending on circumstances, destinal, destiny, detachment, detail, dicey, dividend, division, dole, end, equal share, event, eventual, eventuality, eventuation, extra, faction, fatal, fate, fatidic, final, fleet, fluke, fluky, fortuitous, fortuity, fraction, freak accident, gang, glancing, grazing, group, grouping, groupment, half, halver, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, hedged about by, helping, hinging on, humanly possible, iffy, imaginable, impingent, impinging, in contact, in question, in suspense, in the balance, in-group, incidence, incident to, incidental, incidental to, indeterminate, indirect, inessential, installment, interest, item, junta, last, likely, long odds, long shot, lot, lucky shot, materialization, measure, meed, meeting, mere chance, mess, mob, modicum, moiety, movement, nonessential, not-self, nudging, occasional, odd, open, osculatory, other, out-group, outfit, pack, parcel, part, particular, party, peer group, pendent, pending, percentage, phalanx, piece, platoon, plausible, portion, posse, possible, potential, predicated on, probable, proportion, provisional, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, rake-off, random sample, ration, realization, regiment, relative, reliant, remainder, revolving on, risky, rubbing, salon, sample, sampling, secondary, section, sector, segment, set, share, slice, small share, squad, stable, stake, steady, stock, string, subdivision, subgroup, subject to, subsidiary, subspecies, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suspenseful, tangent, tangential, team, thinkable, touching, tribe, troop, troupe, turning on, ultimate, unanticipated, uncaused, uncounted, undecided, undetermined, unessential, unestablished, unexpected, unfixed, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable, unsettled, untold, up for grabs, wing

• continual, ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, featureless, gapless, immediate, immemorial, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, machine gun, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, oscillating, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, pulsating, rapid, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, staccato, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained, timeless, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, without end

• continually, ad infinitum, again and again, always, at a stretch, at all times, at every turn, ceaselessly, connectedly, consecutively, constantly, continuously, cumulatively, cyclically, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, endlessly, eternally, ever, ever and anon, everlastingly, every day, every hour, every moment, hand running, hour after hour, hourly, in perpetuity, incessantly, indestructibly, infinitely, interminably, invariably, like clockwork, methodically, monotonously, month after month, never otherwise, never-endingly, night and day, on a stretch, on and on, on end, orderly, perdurably, perennially, permanently, perpetually, rapidly, regularly, repetitively, right along, round the clock, running, steadily, successively, sustainedly, systematically, time without end, together, unbrokenly, unceasingly, unendingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unrelievedly, unvaryingly, without a break, without cease, without end, without exception, without letup, without stopping, world without end, year after year

• continuance, PS, Parthian shot, abidingness, addendum, afterthought, age, antiquity, appendix, back matter, ceaselessness, chorus, coda, codicil, coeternity, colophon, conclusion, consequence, constancy, continualness, continuation, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, double take, durability, durableness, duration, dying words, endlessness, endurance, envoi, epilogue, eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, follow-through, follow-up, foreverness, immutability, incessancy, indestructibility, infinite duration, infinity, interminability, last words, lastingness, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintenance, never-endingness, parting shot, perdurability, perennation, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, peroration, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, refrain, run, second thought, sempiternity, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, stability, standing, steadfastness, subscript, suffix, supplement, survival, survivance, swan song, tag, timelessness, unceasingness

• continuation, PS, Parthian shot, accession, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjournal, adjournment, adjunct, adjuvant, afterthought, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, back matter, chorus, coda, codicil, colophon, coming after, complement, conclusion, concomitant, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, continualness, continuance, continuity, corollary, deferment, deferral, descent, double take, duration, dying words, endurance, envoi, epilogue, extension, extension of time, extrapolation, fixture, follow-through, follow-up, following, increase, increment, last words, lengthening, line, lineage, lingering, logical sequence, maintenance, offshoot, order, order of succession, parting shot, pendant, peroration, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, posteriority, postface, postfix, postlude, postponement, postposition, postscript, procession, procrastination, progress, progression, prolongation, prorogation, protraction, pursuance, putting-off, refrain, reinforcement, repetition, rotation, run, second thought, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequence, sequent, sequitur, series, side effect, side issue, staying power, straight course, subjunction, subscript, succession, successiveness, suffix, suffixation, supplement, sustained action, sustenance, swan song, tabling, tag, tailpiece, undergirding, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, way

• continue, abide, adjourn, advance, be continuous, be prolonged, bide, carry on, carry over, carry through, catenate, cease not, chain, concatenate, connect, connect up, continuate, continue to be, dawdle, defeat time, defer, defy time, delay, drag on, drag out, draw, draw out, dwell, dwell on, elapse, elongate, endure, exist, expire, extend, flit, flow, flow on, fly, form a series, glide, go along, go by, go on, go on with, hang fire, hang up, hold, hold off, hold on, hold out, hold over, hold steady, hold up, jog on, join, keep, keep at, keep at it, keep driving, keep going, keep on, keep trying, keep up, lapse, last, last long, last out, lay aside, lay by, lay over, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, linger, linger on, link, live, live on, live through, maintain, maintain continuity, never cease, not accept compromise, occur often, outlast, outlive, pass, pass by, perdure, perennate, perpetuate, persevere, persist, persist in, pick up, pigeonhole, postpone, press on, prevail, proceed, proceed with, procrastinate, produce, prolong, prolongate, prorogate, prorogue, protract, pull, pursue, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, recommence, recur, remain, renew, reopen, reserve, resume, ride, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, slide, slip, slog on, spin out, stagger on, stand, stand over, stave off, stay, stay on, strain, stretch, stretch out, string, string out, string together, subsist, survive, suspend, sustain, table, take a recess, take up, tarry, tauten, temporize, tense, thread, tide over, tighten, vibrate, waive, wear, wear well

• continuing, abiding, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, articulated, assiduous, catenated, ceaseless, changeless, chronic, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuous, cyclical, diligent, direct, diuturnal, dogged, durable, endless, enduring, evergreen, faithful, featureless, firm, fixed, frozen, gapless, hardy, immediate, immobile, immutable, inalterable, incessant, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, intact, interminable, intransient, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, joined, jointless, lasting, lifelong, linked, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, monotonous, never-ending, never-tiring, nonstop, obstinate, of long duration, of long standing, old, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, quiescent, rapt, recurrent, relentless, remaining, repetitive, resolute, rigid, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sedulous, sempervirent, serried, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, straight, stubborn, sustained, tenacious, tireless, torpid, tough, twenty-four-hour, unabating, unaltered, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undaunted, undestroyed, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unending, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unrelieved, unremitting, unshifting, unsleeping, unstopped, unswerving, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vital, weariless

• continuity, accordance, action, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, book, calm, catastrophe, ceaselessness, characterization, chattering, chronology, color, coming after, complication, connectedness, connection, consecution, consecutiveness, consistency, consonance, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuation, contrivance, correspondence, cue, degree, denouement, descent, design, development, device, duration, duree, endurance, episode, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, extension, fable, falling action, following, gimmick, gradation, hierarchy, homogeneity, incessancy, incident, lastingness, lengthening, libretto, line, lineage, lines, local color, logical sequence, maintenance, monolithism, mood, motif, movement, mythos, noninterruption, order, order of succession, orderliness, oscillation, period, peripeteia, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, place, plan, playbook, plot, posteriority, postposition, procession, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, psychological time, pulsation, pursuance, quick fire, rank, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, recognition, regularity, repetition, rising action, rotation, run, scenario, scene plot, scheme, score, script, secondary plot, sequence, serial order, series, shooting script, side, slant, space, space-time, stability, staccato, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, story, straight course, structure, stuttering, subject, subjunction, subordination, subplot, succession, successiveness, suffixation, sustained action, sustainment, sustenance, switch, tattoo, tense, term, text, the future, the past, the present, thematic development, theme, tide, time, timebinding, tone, topic, twist, uniformity, unintermission, uninterrupted course, uninterruption, unity, unremittingness, unruffledness, vibration, way, while

• continuous, abiding, accordant, ageless, alike, articulated, automatic, balanced, catenated, ceaseless, chronological, coeternal, concatenated, connected, consecutive, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continued, continuing, correspondent, cyclical, dateless, direct, durational, durative, endless, equable, equal, eternal, eterne, even, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless, flat, frequent, gapless, haunting, homogeneous, immediate, immemorial, immutable, incessant, indefatigable, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable, joined, jointless, lasting, level, linked, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, of a piece, olamic, ordered, orderly, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, reappearing, recurrent, recurring, regular, remaining, repetitive, returning, revenant, robotlike, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, sequent, sequential, serial, serried, smooth, stable, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, straight, sustained, systematic, temporal, thematic, thick-coming, tight, timeless, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, undying, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unruffled, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, without end

• continuum, Indian file, acreage, area, array, articulation, bank, breadth, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, concatenation, connection, consecution, course, cycle, descent, dimension, drone, emptiness, empty space, endless belt, endless round, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, file, filiation, galactic space, gamut, gradation, hum, infinite space, interstellar space, line, lineage, measure, monotone, nexus, nothingness, outer space, pendulum, periodicity, plenum, powder train, progression, proportion, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, space, spatial extension, spectrum, sphere, spread, string, succession, superficial extension, surface, swath, thread, tier, tract, train, void, volume, windrow

• contort, bend, buckle, corkscrew, crinkle, crook, crumple, curve, distort, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, gnarl, intort, knot, meander, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, misconceive, misconstrue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, misshape, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, pervert, scallop, screw, serpentine, slink, snake, spring, squeeze, strain the sense, swirl, torture, turn, turn awry, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twist the words, warp, whirl, whorl, wind, worm, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe

• contortion, anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry, buckle, crookedness, detorsion, deviation, disproportion, distortion, gnarl, imbalance, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, quirk, screw, torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wring

• contour, broad lines, configuration, delineate, delineation, features, figuration, figure, framework, galbe, gestalt, limn, line, lineaments, lineation, lines, main features, outline, profile, relief, shapes, silhouette, skeleton, tournure

• contra, a rebours, adverse to, against, against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, arsy-varsy, at cross-purposes, at cross-purposes with, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war with, athwart, by contraries, con, contradictory, contrarily, contrariously, contrariwise, contrary, contrawise, converse, conversely, counter, counter to, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpole, counterterm, cross, dead against, eyeball-to-eyeball, facing, foil, fronting, in conflict with, in confrontation, in flat opposition, in hostile array, in opposition, in opposition to, inverse, inversely, just the opposite, nay rather, obverse, offset, on the contrary, opposed to, opposite, opposite number, oppositely, otherwise, over, per contra, quite the contrary, rather, reverse, setoff, the contrary, the other side, to the contrary, topsy-turvy, tout au contraire, toward, up in arms, upside down, versus, vice versa, vis-a-vis, with crossed bayonets

• contraband, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, ban, banned, barred, black-market, bootleg, bootleg liquor, chargeable, cigarette smuggling, cigarettes, contrabandage, contrary to law, criminal, denial, disallowance, disapproved, dope, dope smuggling, drugs, embargo, excluded, exclusion, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forbidden, forbidden fruit, forbidding, gunrunning, hot, hot goods, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, irregular, jewel smuggling, jewels, justiciable, law, lawless, narcotics, narcotics smuggling, no-no, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlaw, outlawed, preclusion, prevention, prohibited, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribed, proscription, punishable, refusal, rejection, repression, restrictive covenants, ruled out, ruling out, rumrunning, run, shut out, smuggled goods, smuggling, statute, stolen goods, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, tabooed, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under the ban, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unlicensed, unofficial, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unstatutory, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wrongful, zoning, zoning laws

• contraception, aridity, barrenness, birth control, dearth, dry womb, dryness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, planned parenthood, sterileness, sterility, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, withered loins

• contraceptive, IUD, aegis, arm guard, backstop, bag, birth control device, buffer, bulwark, bumper, condom, contraceptive foam, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, diaphragm, dodger, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, insulation, interlock, intrauterine device, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard, oral contraceptive, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pessary, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, rubber, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, skin, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, sun helmet, the pill, umbrella, windscreen, windshield

• contract, OD, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, accept obligation, accord, acquire, affair, affiance, afflict, agree, agree to, agreement, answer for, arrangement, attempt, bag, bang, bar, bargain, bargain for, barricade, batten, batten down, be answerable for, be brought down, be felled, be responsible for, be security for, be seized of, be struck down, be traumatized, become engaged, betroth, bind, binding agreement, bob, boil down, bolt, bond, break out, bring down, bring on, bring upon, business, button, button up, capsulize, capture, cartel, catch, catch cold, cause, choke, choke off, circumscribe, clap, clip, close, close up, coarct, collapse, collective agreement, come by, come down with, come in for, come into, commit, commitment, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, confine, consolidate, consortium, constrict, constringe, contain, contract an engagement, convention, corral, corrugate, covenant, covenant of salt, cover, cramp, crease, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, deal, decline, decrease, derange, derive, develop, dicker, diminish, disorder, do a deal, dock, drag down, draw, draw in, draw together, dwindle, earn, effort, elide, employment contract, engage, engagement, enter into possession, enterprise, epitomize, erupt, fail, fall in with, fall into, fasten, fever, fold, fold up, foreshorten, formal agreement, gain, get, go bail for, go in, go into shock, harvest, have an understanding, incur, indispose, induce, invite, ironclad agreement, key, knit, latch, legal agreement, legal contract, lessen, limit, lock, lock out, lock up, make, make a deal, minify, mow, mutual agreement, narrow, net, nip, obligate, obligation, obtain, occlude, operation, overdose, pact, paction, padlock, plan, plight, plumb, poll, pollard, preengagement, procure, program, project, promise, proposition, protocol, prune, publish the banns, pucker, pucker up, pull down, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, recognizance, reduce, restrict, retrench, run, run a temperature, sack, scale down, score, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shake hands on, shave, shear, shorten, shrink, shut, shut the door, shut up, sicken, sink, slam, snap, snape, snub, solidify, squeeze, squeeze shut, stipulate, stipulation, straiten, strangle, strangulate, stunt, succumb to, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take, take ill, take in, take the vows, taper, task, telescope, transaction, treaty, trim, troth, truncate, understanding, undertake, undertaking, union contract, upset, valid contract, venture, verbal agreement, wage contract, weaken, welcome, win, work, wrinkle, zip up, zipper

• contracted, Spartan, abated, abbreviated, ablated, abridged, affianced, agreed, aposiopestic, arranged, assured, attenuated, bated, belittled, betrothed, blank, blind, blind-alley, bound, brief, brusque, cecal, choked, choked off, clamped, clipped, close, closed, committed, compact, compacted, compendious, compressed, compromised, concentrated, concise, condensed, consolidated, constricted, consumed, covenanted, cramped, crisp, curt, curtailed, cut, dead, dead-end, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, docked, dropped, elliptic, engaged, epigrammatic, eroded, fallen, gnomic, guaranteed, intended, knitted, laconic, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, nipped, obligated, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pledged, plighted, pointed, promised, pruned, puckered, pursed, reduced, reserved, retrenched, scaled-down, sealed, sententious, settled, shorn, short, short and sweet, shortened, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, shut, signed, smaller, solidified, squeezed, squeezed shut, stipulated, strangled, strangulated, succinct, summary, sworn, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, truncated, undertaken, underwritten, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, warranted, wasp-waisted, watered-down, weakened, worn, wrinkled

• contraction, Speedwriting, abatement, abbreviation, abridgment, alleviation, apocope, aposiopesis, attenuation, brachygraphy, clipping, coarctation, constriction, crasis, cutting, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, dying, dying off, elision, ellipsis, extenuation, fade-out, languishment, lessening, letup, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, narrowing, phonography, pruning, reduction, relaxation, sagging, scaling down, shortening, shorthand, simplicity, stenography, stricture, subtraction, syncope, syneresis, tachygraphy, taper, tapering, truncation, weakening

• contradict, abjure, abrogate, agree to disagree, annul, answer, answer conclusively, antagonize, argue down, assert the contrary, be antipathetic, be at cross-purposes, be contrary to, be inimical, be opposed to, beat against, belie, break, break off, brush aside, call into question, challenge, chuck, chuck out, clash, collide, conflict, conflict with, confound, confute, contemn, contest, contrapose, contrast with, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, counterattack, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, cross, crush, decline, defeat, demolish, deny, despise, differ, disaccord, disaffirm, disagree, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispose of, disprove, dispute, disregard, dissent, except, exclude, falsify, finish, floor, forbid, forswear, gainsay, garble, go against, go counter to, ignore, impugn, interfere with, jangle, jar, join issue upon, jostle, juxtapose in opposition, lock horns, meet head-on, militate against, mismatch, mismate, negate, negative, nonplus, not accept, not admit, nullify, object, offset, oppose, oppugn, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, pass by, pass up, play at cross-purposes, push aside, put to silence, rebuff, rebut, recant, reduce to silence, refuse, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refute, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, resist, retract, reverse, revoke, run against, run counter to, scout, set off, settle, shove away, shut up, silence, smash all opposition, spurn, squash, squelch, subvert, swim upstream, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, traverse, turn away, turn out, undermine, upset, vary, waive, work against

• contradiction, abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, answer, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, argumentation, backlash, bucking, challenge, chucking, chucking out, clashing, collision, complete answer, conflict, confounding, confrontation, confutation, contempt, contention, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrary assertion, contrast, contravention, contraversion, controversion, controversy, counteraction, countering, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crosscurrent, crossing, crotchetiness, declination, declining, demolition, denial, despisal, despising, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discord, discordance, discordancy, discounting, discrediting, discrepancy, disharmony, dismissal, disownment, disparity, disproof, disregard, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, effective rejoinder, exception, exclusion, faction, forswearing, friction, gainsaying, head wind, hostility, ignoring, impugnation, impugnment, inaccordance, inconsistency, inequality, inimicalness, interference, jarring, kick, negation, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconformity, nonconsideration, nullification, opposing, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, oppugnation, overthrow, overthrowal, passing by, perverseness, perversity, polarity, putting away, putting out, reaction, rebuff, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recantation, recoil, refusal, refutal, refutation, rejection, renitency, renouncement, renunciation, repercussion, repudiation, repugnance, repulse, resistance, retractation, retraction, revocation, revolt, scouting, showdown, spurning, squelch, standing against, subversion, swimming upstream, throwing out, traversal, turning out, undercurrent, undermining, unharmoniousness, upset, upsetting, variance

• contradictory, abjuratory, abnegative, absonant, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, ambiguous, ambivalent, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodean, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antithetical, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, balancing, breakaway, clashing, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confounding, confronting, confutative, confuting, contra, contradicting, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrary to reason, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, counterpole, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, dead against, denying, differing, disaccordant, disaffirming, disagreeable, disagreeing, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disowning, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, divergent, enemy, eyeball to eyeball, fallacious, faulty, flawed, fractious, grating, hostile, illogical, immiscible, inaccordant, inauthentic, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, inharmonious, inimical, invalid, inverse, irrational, jangling, jarring, loose, negating, negative, negatory, nonconformist, noncooperative, nonscientific, not following, nullifying, obstinate, obverse, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, paradoxical, paralogical, perverse, polar, reactionary, reasonless, recalcitrant, recanting, refractory, refutative, refutatory, refuting, renitent, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative, repugnant, resistant, reverse, revocative, revocatory, revolutionary, rival, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, squared off, unauthentic, uncongenial, unconnected, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unharmonious, unphilosophical, unpropitious, unreasonable, unscientific, variant, without reason

• contradistinction, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, clashing, collision, con, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, counterposition, cross-purposes, demarcation, differentiation, disagreement, discrepancy, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, division, hairsplitting, hostility, inconsistency, inimicalness, microscopic distinction, nice distinction, nuance, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, perversity, polarity, repugnance, segregation, separation, shade of difference, showdown, subtle distinction, trichoschistism

• contraindication, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, counterposition, cross-purposes, disagreement, discrepancy, hostility, inconsistency, inimicalness, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, perversity, polarity, repugnance, showdown

• contralto, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, accompaniment, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo, bassus, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caroler, chanter, chantress, coloratura soprano, comic bass, continuo, countertenor, crooner, deep, deep bass, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, descant, diva, dramatic soprano, drone, figured bass, grave, ground bass, heavy, heroic tenor, hollow, hymner, improvisator, lead singer, lieder singer, line, low, low-pitched, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, part, plain chant, plain song, prick song, prima donna, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, sepulchral, singer, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, tenor, thorough bass, torch singer, treble, undersong, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, voice part, warbler, yodeler

• contraposition, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, backlash, bucking, challenge, clashing, collision, con, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contrariety, contrast, contravention, contraversion, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crosscurrent, crossing, crotchetiness, denial, disagreement, discrepancy, dissent, friction, head wind, hostility, impugnation, impugnment, inconsistency, inimicalness, interference, kick, negation, nonconformity, opposing, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, oppugnation, perverseness, perversity, polarity, reaction, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recoil, refusal, rejection, renitency, repercussion, repugnance, resistance, revolt, showdown, standing against, swimming upstream, traversal, undercurrent

• contraption, apparatus, contrivance, device, gadget, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, hand tool, implement, instrument, means, mechanical device, mechanism, power tool, precision tool, speed tool, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, tool, utensil, widget

• contrariety, abominability, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, approximation, assemblage, association, asymmetry, backlash, bad blood, baseness, beastliness, bond, clashing, closeness, collision, combination, competition, con, conflict, confrontation, confrontment, confutation, connectedness, connection, contemptibility, contention, contiguity, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariness, contrast, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crudeness, dealings, deduction, departure, despicability, despicableness, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disequilibrium, disgustingness, disjunction, disparity, disproportion, dissension, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, enmity, far cry, filiation, foulness, fractiousness, friction, fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, heterogeneity, homology, hostility, ignobility, imbalance, inaccordance, inadequacy, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, injustice, insufficiency, intercourse, interference, intimacy, irreconcilability, irregularity, junction, kick, liaison, link, linkage, linking, loathsomeness, mixture, mutual attraction, nastiness, nauseousness, nearness, negativeness, noisomeness, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, nonuniformity, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, obstinacy, odds, odiousness, offensiveness, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, otherness, overbalance, perverseness, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, posing against, propinquity, protest, proximity, putridity, putridness, rapport, reaction, rebarbativeness, recalcitrance, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulsiveness, resistance, revolt, rivalry, rottenness, separateness, shortcoming, similarity, swimming upstream, sympathy, tie, tie-in, unbalance, unconformity, uncooperativeness, unevenness, unfair discrimination, union, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unspeakableness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, vileness, vying

• contrary, abjuratory, abnegative, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodean, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antithetical, antonym, antonymous, argumentative, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at opposite extremes, at variance, at war, awkward, back to back, bad, balancing, balky, bulky, cantankerous, choking, clashing, clumsy, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confounding, confronting, confutative, confuting, constrictive, contra, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarily, contrarious, contrariwise, contrasted, contrasting, contrawise, contumacious, converse, conversely, counter, counteractive, counterbalance, counterbalancing, countercheck, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpoised, counterpole, counterproductive, counterterm, countervailing, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crosswise, cumbersome, dead against, denying, departing, detrimental, deviant, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, difficult, disaccordant, disaffirming, disagreeable, disagreeing, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disowning, disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, enemy, eyeball to eyeball, face to face, foil, foul, fractious, froward, grating, hard, harmful, headstrong, heterogeneous, hindering, hindersome, hostile, hulking, hulky, immiscible, impractical, in disagreement, in opposition, in opposition to, in the way, inaccordant, inauspicious, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconvenient, inharmonious, inhibiting, inhibitive, inimical, inopportune, insubordinate, interrupting, interruptive, intractable, inverse, irascible, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, just opposite, many, miserable, motley, multifarious, negative, negatory, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonconformist, noncooperative, nonobservant, nose to nose, not easy, obstinate, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, obverse, occlusive, offset, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, oppositely, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, ornery, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, perversely, polar, poles apart, poles asunder, ponderous, rebellious, recalcitrant, recanting, recusant, refractory, refutative, refutatory, refuting, renunciative, renunciatory, repressive, repudiative, repugnant, restive, restrictive, reverse, revocative, revocatory, rigorous, rival, self-willed, separate, separated, setoff, several, sinister, squared off, stifling, strangling, stressful, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, suppressive, the contrary, the other side, troublesome, troublous, trying, unaccommodating, unadaptable, unadjustable, uncompliant, unconformable, unconforming, uncongenial, uncooperative, unequal, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhandy, unharmonious, unlike, unlucky, unmanageable, unpropitious, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward, unwieldy, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, vice versa, vis-a-vis, wayward, widely apart, worlds apart, wretched, wrongheaded

• contrast with, be at cross-purposes, be distinct, be distinguished, be opposed to, clash, clash with, conflict, conflict with, contradict, contrapose, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, depart from, deviate from, differ, disaccord with, disagree with, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, jar with, juxtapose in opposition, not accord with, not square with, offset, oppose, oppugn, play at cross-purposes, run counter to, set off, stand apart, stand over against, vary

• contrast, allegory, analogize, analogy, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, arc lighting, assimilate, bad copy, bad likeness, balance, balancing, black and white, bracket, bring into analogy, bring into comparison, bump heads, camouflage, chiaroscuro, clashing, collate, collision, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, compare and contrast, compare with, comparing, comparison, conflict, confront, confrontation, confrontment, contend, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contrapose, contraposit, contraposition, contrariety, contrastiveness, correlation, counteract, counterpose, counterposition, cross-purposes, decorative lighting, departure, deviation, difference, differentiate, direct lighting, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discriminate, disguise, disparity, dissemblance, dissent, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, distinguish, divergence, divergency, diversity, draw a comparison, draw a parallel, electric lighting, enlightenment, face, far cry, festoon lighting, floodlighting, fluorescent lighting, front, gaslighting, glow lighting, heterogeneity, highlights, hostility, illumination, inaccordance, incandescent lighting, incommensurability, incomparability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indirect lighting, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, irradiation, irreconcilability, juxtapose, lie opposite, light and shade, lighting, liken, liken to, likening, makeup, match, matching, measure against, meet head-on, mere caricature, metaphor, metaphorize, mixture, nonconformity, nonuniformity, odds, oppose, opposing, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, otherness, overhead lighting, parallel, parallelism, perversity, place against, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, polarize, poor imitation, pose against, posing against, proportion, put in opposition, radiation, relate, relation, repugnance, run a comparison, separateness, set against, set in contrast, set in opposition, set off, set off against, set over against, showdown, simile, similitude, similize, spot lighting, stage lighting, stand opposed, stand opposite, strip lighting, subtend, tonality, trope of comparison, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, variance, variation, variegation, variety, view together, weigh, weigh against, weighing

• contravallation, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work

• contravene, abjure, breach, break, combat, contradict, cross, disaffirm, disclaim, disown, encroach, exclude, fight, gainsay, impugn, infract, infringe, intrude, negate, negative, offend, oppose, overstep, reject, repudiate, resist, spurn, transgress, traverse, trespass

• contribute to, advance, advantage, boost, chip in, conduce to, contribute, decide, determine, donate to, encourage, expedite, facilitate, favor, forward, foster, further, gift, gift with, give to, hasten, influence, kick in, lead to, lend wings to, make for, pledge, promote, push forward, put forward, quicken, redound to, set forward, speed, subscribe, subserve, sweeten the kitty, turn the scale

• contribute, accommodate, add to, advance, afford, aid, assist, augment, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, bend to, bestow, bias, chip in, clothe, come through, compare, conduce, contribute to, dispose, donate, donate to, endow, enter into, fill, fill up, find, fortify, forward, fund, furnish, gift, gift with, give, give to, go, go into, grant, have a tendency, have suffrage, head, help, help decide, incline, invest, join, join in, keep, kick in, lead, lean, look to, maintain, make available, make provision for, make the scene, partake, partake of, participate, participate in, pitch in, pledge, point, point to, prepare, present, promote, provide, provide for, pull an oar, recruit, redound to, reinforce, replenish, serve, set, set toward, show a tendency, sit in, sit in on, stock, store, strengthen, subscribe, subsidize, supplement, supply, support, sweeten the kitty, take part in, tend, trend, turn, verge, vote, warp, work toward, yield

• contribution, accommodation, accordance, alms, alms fee, assessment, association, award, awarding, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, bestowment, blackmail, call, call for, cess, chanty, charity, claim, cochairmanship, collection, communication, complicity, concession, condominium, conferment, conferral, conscience money, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, deliverance, delivery, demand, demand for, direct tax, dole, donation, donative, draft, drain, duty, endowment, engagement, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, furnishment, gifting, giving, graduated taxation, grant, granting, handout, having a part, heavy demand, impartation, impartment, imposition, impost, indent, indirect tax, insistent demand, investiture, involvement, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint ownership, joint return, joint tenancy, levy, liberality, nonnegotiable demand, notice, offer, offering, offertory, order, partaking, participation, partnership, pittance, presentation, presentment, progressive tax, provision, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, separate returns, sharing, single tax, subscription, suffrage, supertax, supplying, surrender, surtax, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, tithe, toll, tribute, ultimatum, voting, votive offering, vouchsafement, warning, withholding tax

• contributor, Maecenas, Santa Claus, almoner, almsgiver, angel, assignor, awarder, backer, bestower, cheerful giver, conferrer, consignor, donator, donor, fairy godmother, feoffor, financer, funder, giver, grantor, imparter, lady bountiful, patron, patroness, philanthropist, presenter, settler, subscriber, sugar daddy, supporter, testate, testator, testatrix, vouchsafer

• contributory, accessory, additional, adjuvant, aidful, ancillary, another, appurtenant, auxiliary, beneficial, collateral, concessive, conducive, constructive, donative, extra, farther, fresh, further, furthersome, good for, helpful, intestate, more, new, other, plus, positive, profitable, remedial, salutary, serviceable, spare, subservient, subsidiary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, testamentary, testate, therapeutic, ulterior, useful

• contrition, abject apology, acknowledgment, apologies, apology, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bitterness, breast-beating, compunction, confession, contriteness, excuse, grief, mea culpa, penance, penitence, penitently, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regretting, remorse, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repentance, repining, rue, ruth, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, sorriness, sorrow, wistfulness

• contrivance, Charlie McCarthy, action, ad hoc measure, agent, anagnorisis, ancilla, angle, answer, apparatus, appliance, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrangement, art, artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, attack, authorship, background, beginning, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, brainchild, cabal, calculation, catastrophe, characterization, charting, chicanery, coinage, collusion, color, complication, complicity, complot, conception, concoction, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, continuity, contraption, contriving, countermove, counterplot, coup, course of action, covin, craft, creation, creative effort, creature, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, demarche, denouement, design, development, device, devising, disposition, dodge, dummy, dupe, effort, engineering, enterprise, envisagement, episode, expedient, fable, fabrication, fakement, falling action, feint, fetch, figuring, finagling, finesse, foresight, forethought, frame-up, gadget, gambit, game, generation, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, go-between, graphing, grift, ground plan, guidelines, hand tool, handmaid, handmaiden, hatching, idea, implement, improvisation, incident, instrument, intention, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, intrigue, invention, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, layout, lever, line, lineup, little game, local color, long-range plan, machination, makeshift, making do, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, mapping, master plan, means, measure, mechanical device, mechanism, mediator, medium, method, methodology, midwife, minion, mintage, mood, motif, move, movement, mythos, operations research, organ, organization, origination, pawn, peripeteia, pis aller, plan, planning, planning function, plaything, plot, plotting, ploy, power tool, prearrangement, precision tool, procedure, program, program of action, puppet, racket, rationalization, recognition, red herring, resort, resource, rigging, rising action, ruse, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, schemery, scheming, secondary plot, servant, setup, shake-up, shift, slant, slave, sleight, solution, speed tool, step, stooge, stopgap, story, stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, structure, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch, system, systematization, tactic, tactical plan, tactics, temporary expedient, the big picture, the picture, thematic development, theme, tone, tool, topic, toy, trick, trickery, trump, twist, underplot, utensil, vehicle, way, web of intrigue, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, working hypothesis, working plan, working proposition

• contrive, angle, arrange, be so, be such, beget, breed, bring, bring forth, bring into being, bring on, calculate, call forth, call into being, cast, clear, clear the hurdle, cogitate, coin, collogue, collude, come along, come on, come out, come through, conceive, concert, concoct, connive, conspire, cook up, cut out, cut the mustard, design, develop, devise, discover, draw down, draw on, dream up, effect, elaborate, elicit, engender, engineer, evoke, evolve, fabricate, fare, fashion, figure, finagle, forecast, formulate, frame, generate, gerrymander, get, get along, get by, get on, give being to, give rise to, go along, go on, hack it, handle, hatch, hatch up, improvise, induce, inspire, instigate, intend, intrigue, invent, jockey, lay plans, lead, machinate, make, make a projection, make arrangements, make do with, make it, make out, make the grade, make up, manage, manage somehow, maneuver, manipulate, manufacture, mature, methodize, mint, motivate, move, muddle through, negotiate, obtain, organize, originate, play games, plot, prearrange, procreate, procure, program, project, provoke, pull strings, put over, put through, rationalize, rig, schedule, schematize, scheme, scrape along, set up, shape, shape up, spawn, stack up, strike out, succeed in, superinduce, swing, swing the deal, systematize, think out, think up, turn out, vamp up, wangle, work out, work up, worry along

• control, Masan, R and D, abate, ability, abnegation, absolutism, abstinence, acme, action, address, adeptness, administration, adroitness, airmanship, allay, alleviate, ancestral spirits, angel, aplomb, apparition, appearance, arrest, arrestation, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, ascendancy, assuage, astral, astral spirit, attemper, attendant godling, authority, authorization, automatic control, bank the fire, banshee, barnstorm, be responsible for, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, blunt, bond service, bondage, bravura, bridle, brilliance, button, call the shots, call the signals, calm, calmness, capability, capacity, captain, captivity, carry authority, carry on, cascade control, championship, charge, charisma, charm, chasten, check, claws, cleverness, clout, clutches, collect, command, competence, composure, conduct, consequence, conservatism, constrain, constraint, contain, continence, control action, control experiment, controlled experiment, cool, cool off, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, coordination, copilot, crack the whip, craft, craftsmanship, credit, cunning, curb, curtail, curtailment, cut and try, daemon, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debt slavery, decelerate, deceleration, decide, deftness, demon, departed spirit, deprivation of freedom, determine, device, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, dial, diminish, diplomacy, direct, direction, directorship, discipline, disembodied spirit, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, dispassion, dispose, disposition, dominance, dominate, domination, dominion, dompt, downplay, drive, dull, duppy, dybbuk, effect, effectiveness, efficiency, eidolon, electronic control, eminence, empery, empire, empiricism, enchantment, engineer, enjoin, enslavement, enthrallment, esteem, evenness, experiment, experimental design, experimental method, experimental proof, experimentalism, experimentation, expertise, extenuate, facility, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, favor, feedback control, feudalism, feudality, finesse, first place, first prize, fly, force, form, genius, genius domus, genius loci, gentleness, ghost, golden mean, good angel, good feeling, good genius, govern, governance, government, grace, grasp, grateful dead, grip, gripe, guard, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guidance, guide, hand, handiness, handle, handling, hands, hant, happy medium, haunt, have clout, have control of, have in hand, have power, have the power, have the right, have the say, have under control, head, head up, headship, hegemony, height, helm, helotism, helotry, highest, hinder, hindrance, hit and miss, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in hand, hold in leash, hold the helm, hold the reins, hold up, horsemanship, household gods, husbandry, idolum, immateriality, impartiality, imperium, importance, incidental power, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, indentureship, independence, influence, influentiality, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inhibit, inhibition, injunction, insinuation, interdict, invisible helper, iron hand, judiciousness, jurisdiction, juste-milieu, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, keep within bounds, kingship, knob, know-how, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, larva, lay, lay under restraint, lead, lead on, leadership, leading, legal restraint, lemures, lenify, lenity, lessen, lever, leverage, lighten, lordship, magnetism, make the rules, manage, management, managery, managing, manes, maneuver, manipulate, manipulation, marksmanship, master, mastermind, mastership, mastery, materialization, maximum, mechanism, meden agan, middle way, might, mildness, ministering angel, mitigate, moderate, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modulate, moment, monopoly, most, ne plus ultra, neutrality, new high, noble experiment, nonviolence, nothing in excess, numen, obtund, officer, oni, order, ordering, oversee, oversight, pacifism, palliate, palms, paramountcy, peel off, penates, peonage, personality, persuasion, phantom, pilot, pilotage, play down, poltergeist, possess authority, possession, potency, power, practical ability, pragmatism, predominance, preponderance, prescribe, presence, presidency, pressure, prestige, primacy, proficiency, prohibit, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, prowess, prudence, pull, pull in, pull the strings, purchase, put down, quarterback, quickness, raj, rationing, readiness, record, reduce, reduce the temperature, regnancy, regulate, regulation, reign, rein, rein in, reins of government, repose, repress, repute, research and development, resource, resourcefulness, restrain, restraint, restraint of trade, retard, retardation, retrench, retrenchment, revenant, robot control, rule, rule of thumb, run, running, savoir-faire, savvy, say, seamanship, self-abnegation, self-command, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, serenity, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, servo control, set back, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, skill, skillfulness, skipper, slacken, slavery, slow down, slowing down, smother, snub, sober, sober down, sobriety, soften, solo, sovereignty, special providence, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, stability, steadiness, steer, steerage, steering, stifle, straiten, strings, style, suasion, subdue, subjection, subjugation, subtle influence, suggestion, supervise, supervision, supervisory control, suppress, supremacy, sway, switch, tact, tactfulness, take command, take in hand, take the lead, talons, tame, tariff wall, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, temper, temperance, temperateness, tentative method, tentativeness, testing, the conn, the helm, the wheel, theophany, thought control, thrall, thralldom, timing, tone down, top spot, totem, tranquillity, trial, trial and error, trying, tune down, tutelar god, tutelary, tyranny, underplay, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unsubstantiality, upper hand, vassalage, via media, villenage, virtuosity, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, weaken, wear the pants, weight, whip hand, wield authority, wit, withhold, wizardry, workmanship, wraith, zenith, zombie

• controller, Big Brother, CA, CPA, accountant, accountant general, actuary, auditor, bank accountant, bank examiner, boatswain, bookkeeper, boss, bursar, calculator, cashier, cashkeeper, certified public accountant, chamberlain, chartered accountant, chief, clerk, comptroller, control, cost accountant, cost keeper, curator, depositary, depository, financial officer, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, governor, head, headman, inspector, journalizer, liquidator, monitor, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, paymaster, proctor, purse bearer, purser, receiver, reckoner, recorder, registrar, regulator, servo control, servo regulator, sirdar, slave driver, steward, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, treasurer, trustee, visitor

• controlling, absolute, all-absorbing, ascendant, at the head, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, boss, capital, cardinal, chief, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, directing, directive, directorial, directory, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, ex officio, foremost, general, governing, great, guiding, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, imperative, important, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, influential, leading, main, managerial, managing, master, mighty, momentous, monocratic, official, overriding, overruling, paramount, potent, powerful, predominant, predominate, preeminent, premier, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prestigious, prevalent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, puissant, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ruling, senior, sovereign, substantial, superior, supreme, topmost, totalitarian, uppermost, weighty

• controversial, arguable, argumental, argumentative, at issue, belligerent, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, confutable, conjectural, contentious, contestable, controvertible, debatable, deniable, dialectic, disputable, disputatious, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eristic, factious, iffy, ill-humored, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, litigious, logomachic, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, pilpulistic, polemic, polemical, pro and con, problematic, provocative, quarrelsome, questionable, refutable, scrappy, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, unsettled

• controversy, Kilkenny cats, altercation, antagonism, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, clashing, combat, conflict, confrontation, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, contradiction, cut and thrust, debate, defense, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, disputation, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, faction, falling-out, feud, fight, fighting, fliting, flyting, fracas, fuss, hassle, hostility, hubbub, hurrah, imbroglio, inaccordance, inequality, jarring, litigation, logomachy, miff, negation, open quarrel, opposition, oppugnancy, paper war, passage of arms, polemic, polemics, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, questioning, repugnance, rhubarb, rumpus, scrapping, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, squabble, squabbling, strife, struggle, tiff, tussle, unharmoniousness, variance, vendetta, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangling

• controvert, abjure, air, analyze, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, assert the contrary, be at cross-purposes, be contrary to, be opposed to, belie, break, call into question, canvass, challenge, clash, comment upon, conflict, conflict with, confound, confute, consider, contest, contradict, contrapose, contrast with, contravene, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, cross, crush, deal with, debate, defeat, deliberate, deliberate upon, demolish, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, discourse about, discuss, dismiss, disown, dispose of, disprove, dispute, evert, examine, exchange views, finish, floor, forswear, gainsay, go into, handle, impugn, investigate, join issue upon, juxtapose in opposition, knock around, negate, nonplus, not accept, not admit, nullify, offset, oppose, oppugn, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, pass under review, play at cross-purposes, put to silence, question, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, rebut, recant, reduce to silence, refuse to admit, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate, retract, review, revoke, run counter to, set off, settle, shut up, sift, silence, smash all opposition, squash, squelch, study, subvert, take back, take issue with, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thresh out, traverse, treat, undermine, upset, ventilate

• contumacious, alienated, beyond control, breachy, contrary, defiant, disaffected, estranged, factious, fractious, froward, impatient of control, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, insurgent, intractable, irreconcilable, irrepressible, obstreperous, ornery, out of hand, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting, restive, seditious, shrewish, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, wild

• contumelious, Rabelaisian, abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, bold, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier, censorious, clannish, cliquish, cold, comminatory, contemptuous, cool, critical, cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, exclusive, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, familiar, forward, foul, fulminatory, haughty, hubristic, humiliating, impertinent, imprecatory, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, left-handed, libelous, maledictory, minimizing, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, overpresumptuous, overweening, pejorative, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, profane, pushy, railing, raw, ribald, ridiculing, risque, saucy, scandalous, scatologic, scolding, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous, slighting, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, truculent, unspeakable, uppish, uppity, vile, vilifying, vituperative, withering

• contumely, abuse, affront, airs, animadversion, arrogance, aspersion, assailing, assault, assurance, atrocity, attack, audacity, berating, billingsgate, bitter words, blackening, boldness, brickbat, bumptiousness, calumny, clannishness, cliquishness, contempt, contemptuousness, cut, despite, diatribe, disdain, disdainfulness, disparagement, dump, effrontery, enormity, exclusiveness, execration, flout, flouting, gibe, hard words, hardihood, hauteur, hubris, humiliation, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, invective, jawing, jeer, jeering, jeremiad, mock, mockery, obloquy, obtrusiveness, offense, onslaught, opprobrium, outrage, overweening, overweeningness, philippic, presumption, presumptuousness, procacity, pushiness, put-down, rating, reflection, revilement, ridicule, scoff, scorn, scornfulness, screed, scurrility, slap, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, stricture, superciliousness, taunt, tirade, tongue-lashing, toploftiness, uncomplimentary remark, uppishness, uppityness, vilification, vituperation

• convalescent home, VA hospital, asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital, convalescent hospital, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, infirmary, inpatient clinic, maison de sante, mental hospital, nursing home, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, policlinic, polyclinic, private hospital, proprietary hospital, public hospital, rest home, sanatorium, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic

• convection, communication, conduction, contagion, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, import, importation, interchange, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, osmosis, passage, passing over, perfusion, spread, spreading, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel

• convene, assemble, bid come, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, cite, conjure, conjure up, convoke, demand, evoke, hold a meeting, hold a session, indent, invoke, meet, muster, muster up, open, order up, page, preconize, recall, requisition, send after, send for, serve, sit, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons

• convenience, WC, accommodate, accommodation, adaptability, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, appurtenance, auspiciousness, avail, backhouse, basement, bathroom, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, can, chargedness, closet, comfort, comfort station, commodiousness, coziness, crapper, criticality, crucialness, cushioniness, decency, desirability, drive, ductility, earth closet, ease, easiness, engine, enginery, expedience, expediency, facility, favor, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, fixture, flexibility, free time, freedom, friendliness, fruitfulness, goof-off time, handiness, head, homelikeness, homeliness, homeyness, hospitality, idle hours, interest, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, leisure, loadedness, loo, luxuriousness, machine, machinery, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, meetness, motive power, motor, necessary, odd moments, opportuneness, outhouse, peace, peacefulness, percentage, pliability, pliancy, point, politicness, powder room, power plant, power source, practicality, pregnancy, privy, profit, profitability, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, repose, reposefulness, rest, rest room, restfulness, retirement, rightness, ripeness, roominess, seasonableness, seemliness, semiretirement, service, snugness, softness, spare time, suitability, throne, time, time to kill, time to spare, timeliness, toilet, toilet room, untroublesomeness, urinal, use, usefulness, utility, value, warmness, washroom, water closet, wieldableness, wieldiness, wisdom, worth, worthwhileness

• conveniences, accouterments, amenities, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, cakes and ale, comforts, creature comforts, duffel, equipage, equipment, excellent accommodations, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, gear, impedimenta, installations, kit, machinery, materiel, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, rig, rigging, stock-in-trade, tackle, things, utensils

• convenient, accessible, adaptable, adjacent, advantageous, advisable, all-around, appropriate, at hand, auspicious, available, becoming, befitting, close, close at hand, close-by, comfortable, comfy, commodious, congruous, contented, convenient to, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, decent, desirable, ductile, easeful, easily reached, easy, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, flexible, foolproof, fortunate, friendly, fructuous, good, handy, happy, helpful, homelike, homely, homey, immediate, likely, lived-in, lucky, luxurious, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, meet, near, nearby, next, nigh, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, opportune, peaceful, pliable, pliant, politic, practical, profitable, proper, propinquant, propinquous, propitious, providential, ready, ready at hand, recommendable, relaxing, reposeful, restful, right, ripe, roomy, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, snug, soft, sortable, suitable, timely, to be desired, to hand, tractable, untroublesome, useful, versatile, warm, well-timed, wieldable, wieldy, wise, worthwhile, yielding

• convention, Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Lateran Council, NATO, SEATO, Vatican Council, accord, agreement, alliance, amenities, arrangement, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, audience, ball, bargain, bargaining, bargaining session, bienseance, binding agreement, bon ton, bond, brawl, canon, capitulation, cartel, caucus, chapter, civilities, civility, classis, code, collective agreement, colloquium, comity, commandment, commission, committee, compact, conciliarism, conclave, concord, concordat, concourse, confab, confabulation, conference, conformity, confrontation, congregation, congress, consistory, consortium, constitutional convention, consuetude, consultation, contract, convenance, conventicle, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, convocation, correctness, council, council fire, council of war, county convention, courtliness, covenant, covenant of salt, custom, dance, date, deal, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, dicker, dictum, diet, diocesan conference, diplomatic code, discussion, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, eisteddfod, elegance, elegancies, employment contract, entente, entente cordiale, established way, etiquette, exchange of views, exquisite manners, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, fashion, festivity, fete, folkway, forgathering, form, formal agreement, formalities, formality, formula, forum, gathering, general principle, get-together, golden rule, good form, good manners, guideline, guiding principle, haute couture, high fashion, high-level talk, housewarming, huddle, imperative, interchange of views, international agreement, interview, ironclad agreement, law, league, legal agreement, legal contract, levee, manner, manners, maxim, meet, meeting, mitzvah, mode, moral, mores, mutual agreement, mutual-defense treaty, national convention, natural politeness, negotiations, news conference, nominating convention, nonaggression pact, norm, observance, ordinance, pact, paction, palaver, panel, parley, parochial church council, parochial council, party, plenary council, plenum, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, political convention, pourparler, powwow, practice, praxis, precept, preliminary convention, presbytery, prescription, press conference, prevailing taste, principium, principle, prom, promise, proper thing, proprieties, propriety, protocol, punctilio, quadrennial circus, quiet good manners, quorum, rally, reception, regulation, rendezvous, ritual, rubric, rule, rules of conduct, seance, seemliness, seminar, session, settled principle, shindig, sit-in, sitting, social code, social conduct, social convention, social graces, social procedures, social usage, soiree, standard, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, state convention, stipulation, stream of fashion, style, summit, summit conference, summitry, swim, symposium, synod, tenet, time-honored practice, tradition, transaction, treaty, trend, turnout, understanding, union contract, usage, use, valid contract, vestry, vogue, wage contract, way, what is done, wont, wonting, working principle, working rule

• conventional, Christian, accepted, accordant, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, agreed, anal, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, bourgeois, button-down, canonical, ceremonial, ceremonious, comme il faut, common, commonplace, compulsive, concordant, conformable, conformist, conscientious, conservative, constrained, consuetudinary, contractual, correct, corresponding, covenantal, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, fastidious, firm, fixed, folk, formal, formalistic, garden, garden-variety, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, harmonious, heroic, hieratic, hoary, household, immemorial, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inveterate, kosher, legendary, literal, liturgic, long-established, long-standing, meet, middle-class, moderate, mythological, naive, natural, nice, no great shakes, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, old hat, old-fashioned, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, pedantic, plastic, pompous, popular, precise, precisianistic, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, regular, regulation, reliable, responsible, right, ritual, ritualistic, rooted, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sacerdotal, scriptural, scrupulous, seemly, set, simple, sober, solemn, sound, square, standard, stately, stock, stodgy, straight, stuffy, suburban, temperate, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, understood, unexceptional, universal, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unsophisticated, unspectacular, unwritten, uptight, usual, venerable, vernacular, well-mannered, widespread, wonted, worshipful

• converge, adhere, approach, assemble, blend, bring into focus, bunch, bunch up, center, centralize, clinch, close, close in, close up, close with, clot, cluster, cohere, coincide, collect, come near, come together, communicate, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, congregate, connect, copulate, couple, crowd, date, draw near, draw nigh, embrace, fall in with, flock together, flow together, focalize, focus, forgather, funnel, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, go together, grow together, hang together, herd together, hive, hold together, horde, huddle, intercommunicate, intersect, join, knit, league, link, mass, meet, merge, mill, muster, narrow the gap, near, nigh, nip, pinch, rally, rally around, rendezvous, run together, seethe, stream, surge, swarm, taper, throng, unite

• conversant, abreast, accomplished, acquainted, acquainted with, alive, apprehending, apprehensive, at concert pitch, at home in, at home with, au courant, au fait, awake, career, coached, cognizant, comprehending, conscious, conversant with, familiar with, finished, informed, informed in, initiate, initiated, intimate with, knowing, master of, no stranger to, perceptive, percipient, practiced, prepared, primed, professional, proficient in, sensible, sentient, skilled, strong in, technical, trained, up, up on, up-to-date, used to, versed, versed in, well-read in, witting

• conversation, ESP, accents, answer, chat, chatter, collegiality, colloquy, comment, commerce, communication, communion, community, confabulation, congress, connection, contact, converse, correspondence, dealing, dealings, debate, deliberation, dialogue, discourse, discussion, elocution, exchange, fellowship, gab, gossip, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, language, linguistic intercourse, message, observation, oral communication, palaver, parley, parole, prattle, rapping, remark, repartee, reply, response, social activity, social intercourse, social relations, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, talk, talking, telepathy, touch, traffic, truck, two-way communication, ventilation, words, yakkety-yak, yakking

• conversational, all jaw, answering, candid, chatty, chitchatty, colloquial, common, communicating, communicational, communicative, communional, confabulatory, cozy, effusive, everyday, expansive, familiar, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, informal, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interlocutory, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, linguistic, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nonstandard, oral, overtalkative, prolix, questioning, responsive, smooth, sociable, speech, spoken, substandard, talkative, talky, telepathic, transmissional, uneducated, unliterary, unstudied, verbal, verbose, vernacular, voluble, windy

• conversationalist, chatterbox, collocutor, colloquialist, conversational partner, converser, dialogist, discourser, interlocutor, interlocutress, interlocutrice, interlocutrix, palaverer, parleyer, patterer, sayer, speaker, talker, utterer

• converse, ESP, adversative, adverse, adversive, answer, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodean, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antithetical, antonym, antonymous, at cross-purposes, balancing, bandy words, be in connection, be in contact, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chin, clashing, collegiality, colloque, colloquial discourse, colloquize, colloquy, commerce, commerce with, commune with, communicate, communicate with, communication, communion, community, compensating, confab, confabulate, confabulation, conflicting, confronting, congress, connection, contact, contra, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, conversation, converse with, conversing, correspondence, counter, counterbalance, counterbalancing, countercheck, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpoised, counterpole, counterterm, countervailing, dead against, deal with, dealing, dealings, declaim, dialogue, discordant, discourse, discourse with, discrepant, discuss, exchange, eyeball to eyeball, eyeball-to-eyeball, facing, fellowship, foil, gab, give-and-take, gossip, have dealings with, have intercourse, have truck with, heads, hold communication, hostile, inconsistent, information, inimical, interaction, interchange, intercommunicate, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interlocution, interplay, inverse, linguistic intercourse, message, mouth, obverse, offset, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, opposite side, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, other face, other side, parley, patter, perverse, polar, polaric, polarized, rapping, reply, repugnant, response, reverse, setoff, shoot the breeze, social activity, social intercourse, social relations, speak, speak with, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, squared off, tails, take counsel with, talk, talk together, talking, telepathy, the contrary, the other side, touch, traffic, traffic with, truck, two-way communication, verbal intercourse, vis-a-vis, visit, visit with, wag the tongue, yarn

• conversion, Fabianism, about-face, abstraction, abuse, abuse of office, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, adoption, alteration, amelioration, annexation, apostasy, appropriation, architecture, assembly, befoulment, betterment, block, blocking, boosting, break, building, casting, change, change of heart, changeableness, changeover, circumcision, composition, construction, constructive change, continuity, conveyance, corrupt administration, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, debasement, defalcation, defection, defense mechanism, defilement, degeneration, degenerative change, desecration, deterioration, deviation, devising, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, elaboration, embezzlement, erection, evangelization, extraction, extremism, fabrication, fashioning, filching, fitting, flip-flop, formation, forming, formulation, fouling, framing, fraud, gradual change, gradualism, graft, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, improvement, innovation, liberation, lifting, machining, making, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, manufacture, manufacturing, melioration, meliorism, mental block, metamorphosis, milling, mining, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, mitigation, modification, modulation, molding, mutation, new birth, new life, novelty, overthrow, peculation, permutation, persuasion, perversion, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, pollution, poor stewardship, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, profanation, progressivism, proselytism, proselytization, prostitution, qualification, radical change, radical reform, radicalism, raising, re-creation, realignment, rebirth, reclamation, redeemedness, redemption, redesign, refining, reform, reformation, reformism, regeneration, remaking, renewal, repression, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revisionism, revival, revivification, revolution, salvation, scrounging, second birth, shaping, shift, shoplifting, smelting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, spiritual purification, stealage, stealing, sublimation, sudden change, suppression, swindle, swiping, switch, symbolization, theft, thievery, thieving, total change, transformation, transition, transmutation, turn, turnabout, turning, upheaval, utopianism, variation, variety, violation, violent change, workmanship, worsening

• convert, Christian, God-fearing man, abuse, accepter, accommodate, actuate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, apostate, apostle, apply, assimilate to, assure, backslider, be convincing, become, befoul, believer, bend, better, bias, bolter, break up, bring, bring home to, bring over, bring round, bring to, bring to reason, budge, carry conviction, carve, catechumen, change, change into, change over, chisel, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, clear the trade, close out, collaborationist, collaborator, communicant, commute, convict, convince, cultivate, daily communicant, debase, defalcate, defector, defile, deform, denature, desecrate, deserter, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, diversify, divert, do over, drive home to, dump, embezzle, employ, evert, extract, fabricate, fanatic, fifth columnist, fit, follower, forge, foul, give salvation, good Christian, grow, harvest, impel, improve, incline, inspire belief, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, lead, lead to believe, liquidate, machine, make, make over, maladminister, manufacture, meliorate, metamorphose, mill, mine, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, mitigate, modify, modulate, move, mugwump, mutate, naturalize, neophyte, overthrow, peculate, persuade, pervert, pietist, pilfer, pollute, process, profane, pronate, proselyte, proselytize, prostitute, pump, qualify, quisling, raise, re-create, realign, rear, rebuild, receiver, recidivist, reconstruct, reconvert, recreant, redeem, redesign, reduce to, refine, refit, reform, regenerate, religionist, remake, remodel, render, renegade, renegado, renegate, renew, reshape, resolve into, restructure, resupinate, revamp, reverse, reversionist, revive, revolve, ring the changes, rotate, runagate, saint, satisfy, save, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, sell, sell one on, sell out, sell short, separatist, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, smelt, strikebreaker, subvert, supinate, sway, switch, switch over, talk over, tergiversant, tergiversator, terminate the account, theist, traitor, transfigure, transform, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose, transubstantiate, truster, turn about, turn around, turn back, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn into, turn out, turn over, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unload, use, utilize, vary, violate, votary, win over, work a change, worsen, zealot

• converted, Lethean, absentminded, advanced, altered, ameliorated, amnestic, assimilated, beautified, better, bettered, blocked, born again, changeable, changed, circumcised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, degenerate, developed, deviant, divergent, educated, embellished, enhanced, enriched, forgetful, forgetting, heedless, improved, inclined to forget, justified, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, naturalized, oblivious, perfected, polished, qualified, reborn, rebuilt, redeemed, refined, reformed, regenerate, regenerated, renewed, repressed, revived, revolutionary, sanctified, saved, spiritually purified, subversive, suppressed, transfigured, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmindful, unmitigated, worse

• convertible, all one, all the same, changeable, coequal, commutable, commutative, coordinate, correspondent, corresponding, equal, equalizing, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, even, exchanged, give-and-take, identical, interchangeable, interchanged, liquid, modifiable, much the same, mutual, negotiable, permutable, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, resolvable, retaliatory, returnable, standard, swapped, switched, tantamount, traded, transformable, transitional, transmutable, transposed

• convex, arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bellied, bellylike, bowed, bowlike, bulging, concave, convexed, embowed, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, out-bowed, oxbow, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, vaulted

• convexity, aduncity, aquilinity, arching, arcuation, belly, boss, bump, circularity, colophon, concameration, concavity, convolution, crookedness, curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, cylindricality, dactylogram, dactylograph, decurvation, decurvature, dent, dint, embossment, excrescence, excurvation, excurvature, fingerprint, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil footprint, globosity, globularity, hookedness, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, indent, indentation, indention, lump, orbicularity, pad, paw print, pawmark, pimple, print, pug, pugmark, recurvation, recurvature, recurvity, rondure, rotundity, rotundness, roundness, seal, sigil, signet, sinuosity, sinuousness, sphericality, sphericalness, sphericity, spheroidicity, spheroidity, stamp, step, stud, thumbmark, thumbprint, tortuosity, tortuousness, vaulting, vestige

• convey, abalienate, alien, alienate, amortize, articulate, assign, barter, bear, bequeath, break, breathe, broadcast, buck, canalize, carry, cede, channel, channelize, chime, chorus, come out with, commit, communicate, conduct, confer, consign, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, devolve upon, disclose, disseminate, emit, enfeoff, enunciate, exchange, express, ferry, fling off, fly, formulate, freight, funnel, get across, get over, give, give expression, give out with, give title to, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, give word, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, hump, impart, leave word, let out, lift, lip, lug, make known, make over, manhandle, negotiate, out with, pack, pass, pass along, pass on, pass over, phonate, phrase, pipe, pour forth, present, project, pronounce, put across, put forth, put in words, put through, raise, relegate, remise, render, report, say, sell, send, send word, set forth, settle, settle on, share, share with, sign away, sign over, signal, siphon, sound, surrender, take, tell, throw off, tote, trade, traject, transfer, transmit, transport, trench, turn over, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, waft, whisk, whisper, wing, word

• conveyance, abalienation, abstraction, air express, aircraft, airfreight, airlift, alienation, amortization, amortizement, annexation, announcement, appropriation, asportation, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bearing, bequeathal, boosting, carriage, carrier, carry, carrying, cartage, cession, charter, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conversion, conveyancing, deed, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disclosure, disposal, disposition, drayage, embezzlement, enfeoffment, exchange, expressage, ferriage, filching, fraud, freight, freightage, giving, graft, haulage, hauling, impartation, imparting, impartment, lease and release, liberation, lifting, lighterage, lugging, medium of transportation, notification, packing, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, portage, porterage, publication, railway express, sale, scrounging, settlement, settling, sharing, shipment, shipping, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, surrender, swindle, swiping, telling, telpherage, theft, thievery, thieving, toting, trading, transfer, transference, transit, transmission, transmittal, transport, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, vehicle, vesting, waft, waftage, wagonage, watercraft

• conveyer, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, bearer, bheesty, busboy, caddie, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, common carrier, coolie, cupbearer, drayman, express, expressman, freighter, gun bearer, hauler, homing pigeon, letter carrier, litter-bearer, porter, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, stevedore, stretcher-bearer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wagoner, water boy, water carrier

• convict, Judas, POW, acquit, anathematize, assure, attaint, be convincing, betrayer, blacklist, bring home to, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, cageling, captive, carry conviction, censure, chain gang, con, condemn, convert, convince, criminal, crook, damn, deceiver, denounce, denunciate, desperado, desperate criminal, detenu, doom, double-dealer, drive home to, ex-convict, excommunicate, felon, find guilty, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, inspire belief, internee, jailbird, lag, lawbreaker, lead to believe, lifer, loser, mobster, outlaw, parolee, pass sentence, pass sentence on, penalize, persuade, political prisoner, prisoner, prisoner of war, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, recidivist, repeater, satisfy, scofflaw, sell, sell one on, sentence, stir bird, swindler, talk over, thief, thug, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, traitor, trusty, two-timer, win over

• conviction, anathematizing, arrogance, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, belief, censure, certainty, certitude, cheerful expectation, cocksureness, condemnation, confidence, confidentness, courage, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, denouncement, denunciation, dependence, desire, doctrine, dogma, doom, doomed hope, excommunication, expectation, eye, fair prospect, faith, feeling, fervent hope, fixed opinion, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, guilty verdict, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, hubris, implicit belief, judgment, mature judgment, mind, opinion, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, persuasion, poise, pomposity, position, positiveness, prayerful hope, presumption, pride, promise, proscription, prospect, prospects, rap, reliance, sanguine expectation, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sentence, sentiment, settled belief, settled judgment, staunch belief, steadfast faith, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, tenet, trust, unshaken confidence, verdict of guilty, view, well-grounded hope

• convince, argue into, assure, be convincing, bring around, bring home to, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, captivate, carry conviction, charm, con, convert, convict, draw, draw over, drive home to, evangelize, gain, gain over, get, hook, hook in, inspire belief, lead to believe, outtalk, persuade, prevail, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, prompt, proselyte, proselytize, satisfy, sell, sell one on, sway, talk into, talk over, wangle, wangle into, wean, wear down, win, win over

• convinced, arrogant, assured, believing, certain, cocksure, confident, decided, determined, devout, dogmatic, doubtless, faithful, fideistic, hubristic, impressed with, overconfident, oversure, overweening, persuaded, pietistic, pious, pistic, poised, pompous, positive, proud, reassured, satisfied, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, sold on, sure, unafraid, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering

• convincing, absolute, adducible, admissible, assuring, attestative, attestive, authentic, authoritative, based on, certain, circumstantial, cogent, conclusive, convictional, credible, cumulative, damning, decisive, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, faithful, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, implicit, impressive, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, persuasive, presumptive, probative, reliable, satisfactory, satisfying, significant, solid, sound, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, trustworthy, trusty, valid, weighty

• convivial, boon, companionable, festal, festive, free and easy, gala, gay, gladsome, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, on the loose, sociable, vivacious

• convocation, Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Lateran Council, Vatican Council, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, baccalaureate service, ball, beck, beck and call, bidding, brawl, call, calling, calling forth, caucus, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, chapter, classis, colloquium, commencement, commission, committee, conciliarism, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, consistory, conventicle, convention, council, dance, date, diet, diocesan conference, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, eisteddfod, empty formality, evocation, exercise, exercises, festivity, fete, forgathering, formal, formality, forum, function, gathering, get-together, graduation, graduation exercises, housewarming, inaugural, inauguration, indent, initiation, invocation, levee, liturgy, meet, meeting, mummery, nod, observance, office, panel, parochial church council, parochial council, party, performance, plenary council, plenum, preconization, presbytery, prom, quorum, rally, reception, religious ceremony, rendezvous, requisition, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, seance, service, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, solemnity, solemnization, summons, symposium, synod, turnout, vestry

• convolution, Barnumism, aduncity, affectation, aquilinity, arachnoid, arbor vitae, arching, archipallium, arcuation, bedizenment, between brain, big talk, brain stem, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, circularity, complexity, complexness, complication, concameration, concavity, convexity, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, crabbedness, crookedness, curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, decurvation, decurvature, diencephalon, dura mater, endbrain, entanglement, excurvation, excurvature, fissure, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, folia, forebrain, fornix, frontal lobe, fulsomeness, garishness, gaudiness, glial cells, globus pallidus, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, gray matter, gyrus, high-flown diction, hindbrain, hippocampus, hookedness, hypothalamus, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, inflatedness, inflation, intricacy, intricateness, involution, involvement, lenticular nucleus, lexiphanicism, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mantle, medulla oblongata, meninges, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, myelencephalon, neopallium, occipital lobe, optic chiasm, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, pallium, parietal lobe, perplexity, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pons, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prose run mad, ramification, recurvation, recurvature, recurvity, reticular system, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rhombencephalon, rondure, rotundity, sensationalism, sententiousness, showiness, sinuosity, sinuousness, stiltedness, subthalamus, subtlety, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tanglement, technicality, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, vaulting, ventricle, vermis, white matter

• convoy, attend, bear, bodyguard, bring, carry, cavalier, chaperon, companion, company, conduct, conductor, consort with, defend, duenna, escort, esquire, execute a maneuver, fellow traveler, gentleman-at-arms, guard, guards, guardsman, guide, heave in together, keep in formation, keep pointed, keep station, lead, maintain position, maneuver, marshal, praetorian guard, protect, safe-conduct, safeguard, shepherd, shield, squire, steam in line, swain, take out, usher, wait on, yeoman

• convulse, afflict, agitate, agonize, ail, amuse, beat, beat up, beguile, bite, bloody, bug, burn, chafe, churn, churn up, claw, concuss, crucify, cut, delight, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, distract, distress, disturb, divert, embroil, enliven, entertain, excite, excruciate, exhilarate, ferment, fester, flurry, fracture one, fret, gall, give pain, gnaw, grate, grind, gripe, harrow, hurt, impale, inflame, inflict pain, irritate, kill, kill by inches, knock dead, lacerate, lancinate, loosen up, macerate, martyr, martyrize, nip, paddle, pain, perturb, perturbate, pierce, pinch, prick, prolong the agony, psych, punish, put to torture, rack, raise a laugh, raise a smile, rankle, rasp, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, rile, rip, ripple, rock, roil, roughen, rub, ruffle, rumple, savage, scarify, shake, shake up, slay, solace, spook, stab, sting, stir, stir up, swirl, throw, throw into confusion, tickle, titillate, torment, torture, trouble, tweak, twist, unsettle, upset, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, wound, wow, wring

• convulsion, Homeric laughter, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abscess, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, ague, akinetic epilepsy, amok, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, apoplexy, arrest, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, autonomic epilepsy, backache, belly laugh, blaze, bleeding, blennorhea, blockage, bloodless revolution, boff, boffola, bouleversement, breakdown, breakup, burst, burst of laughter, cachexia, cachexy, cachinnation, cackle, cardiac epilepsy, cat fit, cataclysm, catastrophe, chill, chills, chortle, chuckle, clamor, clean slate, clean sweep, climax, clonic spasm, clonus, colic, computer revolution, conniption, conniption fit, constipation, cortical epilepsy, coughing, counterrevolution, cramp, crow, cursive epilepsy, cyanosis, cyclone, debacle, derangement, diarrhea, diastrophism, disarrangement, disaster, discomposure, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, diurnal epilepsy, dizziness, downfall, dropsy, duck fit, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eclampsia, edema, emaciation, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, explosion, fainting, fall, falling sickness, fatigue, ferment, fever, fibrillation, fit, fit of anger, fit of laughter, fit of temper, flare-up, flux, focal epilepsy, frenzy, furor, fury, gale, gales of laughter, giggle, grand mal, grip, growth, guffaw, gust, ha-ha, haute mal, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, hurricane, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, hysterical epilepsy, icterus, ictus, indigestion, inflammation, insanity, insomnia, irruption, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, laugh, laughing, laughter, lockjaw, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, misarrangement, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, outbreak, outburst, outburst of laughter, outcry, overthrow, overturn, pain, palace revolution, paralysis, paroxysm, peal of laughter, perturbation, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, prostration, pruritus, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, quake, quaking, radical change, rage, rash, reflex epilepsy, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, rheum, risibility, roar of laughter, rocking, rotatoria, sabotage, sclerosis, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, shaking, shock, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, shuffling, skin eruption, sneezing, snicker, snigger, snort, sore, spasm, stoppage, storm, striking alteration, stroke, subversion, sweeping change, tabes, tabula rasa, tachycardia, tantrum, tardy epilepsy, technological revolution, tee-hee, temblor, temper tantrum, tempest, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tidal wave, titter, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, tornado, torsion spasm, total change, tottering, transilience, traumatic epilepsy, trembling, trismus, tsunami, tumor, tumult, ucinate epilepsy, upheaval, upset, upset stomach, upturn, vertigo, violent change, visitation, vomiting, wasting, whirlwind, yuck, yuk-yuk

• coo, aspirate, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, carol, caw, chant, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, drawl, drum, exclaim, flute, gabble, gaggle, gasp, gobble, growl, grunt, guggle, hiss, honk, hoo, hoot, keen, lilt, maffle, mumble, murmur, mussitate, mutter, pant, peep, pip, pipe, quack, roar, roll, rumble, scold, scream, screech, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, sob, squall, squawk, squeal, susurrate, thunder, trill, trumpet, twang, tweet, twit, twitter, wail, warble, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp

• cook up, ad-lib, angle, beget, breed, brew, bring forth, bring into being, cabal, call into being, coin, collude, complot, conceive, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, counterfeit, countermine, counterplot, dash off, design, develop, devise, discover, do offhand, dream up, engender, engineer, evolve, extemporize, fabricate, fake, fantasize, finagle, finesse, fix, forge, formulate, frame, frame up, fudge, generate, give being to, give rise to, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hoke up, improvisate, improvise, intrigue, invent, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, lay a plot, machinate, make do with, make up, maneuver, manufacture, mature, mint, operate, originate, pack, pack the deal, plan, play by ear, plot, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive, predesign, premeditate, preorder, procreate, rig, scheme, scrap the plan, set up, sew up, spawn, stack the cards, strike off, strike out, think out, think up, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, trump up, vamp, vamp up, wangle, whip up, whomp up, wing it

• cook, KO, abigail, adulterate, amah, au pair girl, ayah, bake, baker, ball up, barbecue, baste, be in heat, betweenmaid, biddy, blanch, blaze, bloom, boil, bollix, bollix up, braise, brew, broil, brown, bugger, bugger up, burn, chafe, chambermaid, chaperon, chef, chef de cuisine, chief cook, choke, coddle, combust, companion, culinarian, culinary artist, curry, defeat, devil, dish, do, do for, do in, do to perfection, doctor, duenna, electric-heat, fake, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, fire, fire up, fix, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, foment, foul up, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fry cook, gas-heat, gasp, gentlewoman, girl, glow, griddle, grill, gum up, handmaid, handmaiden, hash up, heat, hired girl, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, housemaid, incandesce, juggle, kitchener, kitchenmaid, knock out, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, live-in maid, live-out maid, load, louse up, maid, maidservant, manipulate, melt, mess up, muck up, mull, nursemaid, oven-bake, overheat, pack, pan, pan-broil, pant, parboil, parch, parlormaid, pastry chef, pastrycook, plant, play hell with, play hob with, poach, preheat, prepare, prepare food, queer, radiate heat, recook, reheat, retouch, rig, roast, salt, saute, scald, scallop, scorch, screw up, scullery maid, scuttle, sear, seethe, servant girl, servitress, settle, shimmer with heat, shirr, shoot down, short-order cook, simmer, sink, smolder, smother, snafu, snarl up, sophisticate, soubrette, spark, stack, steam, stew, stifle, stir-fry, stoke up, suffocate, superheat, sweat, swelter, tamper with, tepefy, toast, torpedo, tweeny, undo, upstairs maid, waiting maid, warm, warm over, warm up, wench

• cooker, Dutch oven, alcohol stove, baker, barbecue, boiler, broiler, burner, caliduct, camp stove, chafer, chafing dish, cook stove, cookery, element, furnace, gas jet, grill, griller, heater, heating duct, infrared cooker, jet, pans, percolator, pilot light, roaster, samovar, steam pipe, stove, tewel, toaster, tuyere, warmer

• cookery, bakehouse, bakery, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, burner, caboose, caliduct, camboose, catering, cooker, cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, element, frying, furnace, galley, gas jet, grilling, heater, heating duct, home economics, jet, kitchen, kitchenette, nutrition, pan-broiling, pilot light, poaching, roasting, sauteing, scullery, searing, shirring, simmering, steam pipe, steeping, stewing, stove, tewel, toasting, tuyere, warmer

• cooking, a la mode, calefaction, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, steam heating, stroganoff, superheating, tepefaction, torrefaction, warming

• cookout, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, diner, dinner, elevenses, fish fry, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

• cool off, arrange, array, arrest, bridle, calm down, check, collect oneself, compose oneself, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool it, curb, curtail, decelerate, deploy, dispose, dompt, enjoin, form, get organized, govern, grade, guard, harmonize, hierarchize, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, inhibit, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, lay out, lay under restraint, line up, marshal, methodize, normalize, order, organize, pacify, prohibit, pull, pull in, quiet, rank, regularize, regulate, rein, rein in, relax, restrain, retard, retrench, routinize, set back, set up, simmer down, slow down, snub, sober down, standardize, straiten, structure, systematize, take it easy, tranquilize, unwind, withhold

• cool, Buddha-like composure, Laodicean, OK, Olympian, Oriental calm, abate, abnegation, above all that, absolute zero, abstinence, ace-high, affectless, aguey, aguish, air-condition, air-cool, algid, algidity, allay, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, aplomb, appease, arctic, arrest, arrogant, assassinate, assured, at rest, audacious, autistic, aweless, awelessness, backward, bad, balance, balanced, balanced personality, bang-up, bashful, bitterness, blank, bleakness, blue with cold, blunt, bold, bonzer, boss, bracing, brazen, bridle, briskness, bully, bump off, bumptious, but good, calculated, calm, calm disposition, calm down, calm of mind, calmness, catatonic, chattering, check, chill, chilled, chilliness, chilling, chilly, chromatic, cloistered, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, coldness, collect, collected, colorific, coloring, commonsense, compose, composed, composure, conciliate, confident, conservatism, constancy, constrain, constrained, constraint, contain, continence, control, controlled, contumelious, cool off, coolheaded, coolheadedness, cooling, coolish, coolness, coolth, corking, countenance, crackerjack, cradle, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, curb, curtail, damp, dampen, dandy, decelerate, decrease in temperature, deflect, defuse, deliberate, delicious, detached, deter, dichromatic, diminish, disaccordant, disaffect, discourage, discreet, disdainful, disincline, disinterest, dispassion, dispassionate, distant, distract, dithery, divert, divine, do in, dompt, drugged, ducky, dulcify, dull, dust off, dwindling, ease, easy mind, ebbing, emotionally dead, emotionless, enjoin, equable, equilibrium, even, even out, even-tempered, even-tenored, evenness, exclusive, execute, expectation, expected, expecting, expressionless, fab, familiar, fast, fastness, fervorless, fiducial, fine and dandy, finish, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firmness, forbidding, forward, freezing, freezing point, fresh, freshen, freshness, frigid, frigidity, frosted, frostiness, frosty, frozen, frozen to death, gear, gelid, gelidity, gentle, gentleness, glorious, glowing, golden mean, govern, great, groovy, guard, guarded, halcyon, half-frozen, halfhearted, happy medium, harmonious, heartless, heavy, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, hubristic, hunky-dory, hush, hushed, ice, ice-cool, iciness, icy, icy calm, immovable, impartiality, impassible, impassive, impersonal, impertinent, imperturbability, imperturbable, imperturbation, impudent, in equilibrium, inaccessible, inclemency, incompatible, indifferent, indispose, indisturbance, inexcitability, inexcitable, infrigidate, inhibit, inhospitable, inimical, insolent, insulting, insusceptible, intense cold, introverted, invariability, invigorating, isolated, jam-up, judiciousness, just dandy, juste-milieu, keen, keenness, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, knock off, lay, lay the dust, lay under restraint, lenity, lessen, level-headed, levelheaded, liquidate, logical, low temperature, lukewarm, lull, many-colored, marvy, matching, mean, meden agan, medley, mental composure, middle way, mildness, moderate, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modest, moldering, mollify, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, neat, nerve, neuter, neutral, neutrality, nifty, nip, nippiness, nippy, nobby, nodding acceptance, nonamazedness, nonamazement, nonastonishment, nonchalant, nonemotional, nonmarveling, nonviolence, nonwonder, nonwondering, nothing in excess, objective, obtrusive, obtuse, offish, okay, out of sight, out of touch, overconfident, overpresumptuous, overweening, pacific, pacifism, pacify, passionless, peace of mind, peaceable, peaceful, peacefulness, peachy, peachy-keen, perfunctory, philosophic composure, philosophical, philosophicalness, philosophy, phlegmatic, pigmentary, placate, placid, placidity, poise, polychromatic, pour balm into, pour balm on, practical, pragmatic, predictable, premeditated, presuming, presumptuous, prismatic, procacious, prohibit, propitiate, prudence, pull, pull in, purposeful, purposive, pushy, put away, put off, quell, quench, quiescent, quiet, quiet mind, quietude, rainbow, rational, rawness, reasonable, reduce, refresh, refreshing, refrigerate, rein, rein in, relaxed, reliability, reliable, remote, removed, repel, repose, reposeful, reposing, repress, repressed, reserved, rest, restful, resting, restrain, restrained, restraint, retard, reticent, retiring, retrench, rigor, ripping, rock, rock to sleep, rootedness, rum, sane, sang-froid, sangfroid, scrumptious, secluded, seclusive, secure, secureness, security, sedateness, self-abnegation, self-absorbed, self-control, self-controlled, self-denial, self-possessed, self-restraint, sensational, sensible, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, serenity, set back, severity, shaky, shameless, sharp air, sharpness, sheltered, shivering, shivery, shrinking, simmer down, slap-up, slow down, smashing, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, smother, snub, sober, sober-minded, sobriety, solid, solidity, solitary, something else, soothe, soothingness, soulless, sound, soundness, spectral, spiffing, spiffy, spiritless, stability, stabilize, stable, stable equilibrium, stable state, standoff, standoffish, steadfast, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, steady nerves, steady state, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stimulating, stoic, stolid, strained, straiten, stunning, subdue, subdued, subsiding, substantial, substantiality, suppress, suppressed, swell, temperance, temperate, temperateness, tense, tepid, tinctorial, tingent, toning, tough, tranquil, tranquilize, tranquillity, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unabashed, unaffable, unaffectionate, unagitated, unamazed, unamazedness, unamazement, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, unastonished, unastonishment, unastounded, unawed, unbewildered, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, uncordial, undazed, undazzled, undeflectability, undemonstrative, under control, undisturbed, undumbfounded, unemotional, unexcessiveness, unexcitable, unexcited, unexpansive, unextravagance, unextremeness, unfeeling, unflappable, unflinching, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unheated, uniformity, unimpassioned, unimpressed, unimpressibleness, unimpressionable, uninterested, uninvolved, unloving, unmarveling, unmoved, unpassionate, unperturbed, unresponding, unresponsive, unruffled, unruffledness, unshakable, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, unsociable, unstirring, unsurprise, unsurprised, unsurprisedness, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, untroubled, unwavering, unwondering, uppish, uppity, variegated, ventilate, via media, waning, warm, wean from, well-balanced, with chattering teeth, withdrawn, withhold, without nerves, wizard, wonderless, wonderlessness, zealless

• cooler, air cooler, calaboose, can, chiller, chokey, clink, cold pack, coop, fan, hoosegow, ice bag, ice bucket, ice cube, ice pack, ice pail, jug, lockup, pokey, prison, quod, slammer, stir, surface cooler, ventilator, water cooler, wine cooler

• coolie, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, bearer, bheesty, busboy, caddie, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, common carrier, conveyer, cupbearer, drayman, express, expressman, freighter, gun bearer, hauler, homing pigeon, letter carrier, litter-bearer, porter, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, stevedore, stretcher-bearer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wagoner, water boy, water carrier

• coop, arena, bar, beleaguer, beset, besiege, block, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, brooder, cage, calaboose, can, chamber, check, chicken house, chokey, cincture, clink, cloister, close, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, container, cooler, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, court, courtyard, crib, curtilage, delimited field, detain, encage, encircle, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, envelop, fence, fence in, field, fold, ground, hedge in, hell, hem, hem in, hencote, henhouse, hennery, hinder, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hoosegow, house in, immure, impede, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, jug, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, leaguer, limbo, list, lockup, mew, mew up, obstruct, pale, paling, park, pen, pen in, pen up, penfold, pinfold, place of confinement, pocket, pokey, pound, prison, purgatory, quad, quadrangle, quarantine, quod, rail in, restrain, restrict, seal up, shackle, shrine, shut in, shut up, slammer, square, stable, stir, surround, theater, toft, wall, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

• cooperate, accord, acquiesce, act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, ally, alternate, amalgamate, answer to, apportion, assent, assist, associate, assort with, band, band together, bandy, be agreeable to, be consistent, be dying to, be eager, be game, be in cahoots, be in league, be of one, be open to, be partners in, be quits with, be ready, be spoiling for, be uniform with, be willing, change, check, chime, club together, coact, coadunate, coalesce, cohere, coincide, collaborate, collude, combine, commute, compensate, concert, concord, concur, confederate, conform, conform with, conjoin, connive, consent, consist with, consolidate, conspire, contribute, correspond, counterchange, divide with, divvy up with, do business with, dovetail, engage, exchange, fall in together, federate, fit together, fuse, get back at, get even with, get heads together, get together, give and take, go along with, go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go partners, go shares, go together, go with, halve, hang together, happen together, harmonize, help, hit, hold together, hook up, incline, interact, interchange, interlace, interlock, intermesh, interplay, intersect, intertwine, interweave, interwork, jibe, join, join forces, join in, join together, keep together, league, league together, lean, lend a hand, lock, logroll, look kindly upon, make common cause, match, merge, mesh, mortise, not hesitate to, overlap, parallel, participate, partner, pay back, permute, play ball, plunge into, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, register, register with, requite, respond, respond to, retaliate, return, return the compliment, share, share in, sing in chorus, sort with, split the difference, square, square with, stand together, swap, switch, synchronize, synergize, tally, team up, throw in together, tie in, tie up, trade, transpose, unite, unite efforts, work together, would as leave, would as lief

• cooperation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, advocacy, affiliation, affinity, agreement, aid, alliance, alternation, assent, assistance, association, auspices, backing, backup, battledore and shuttlecock, blessing, cahoots, chorus, co-working, coaction, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, combination, combined effort, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, commutation, companionship, company, compatibility, complementary distribution, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consilience, consistency, consociation, consonance, consort, conspiracy, cooperative society, correspondence, counterchange, cross fire, democracy, engagement, equivalence, exchange, favor, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, friendship, give-and-take, harmony, help, helping hand, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermutation, interplay, intersection, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, junction, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lex talionis, measure for measure, membership, mesh, meshing, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, partaking, participation, patronage, peace, permutation, profit sharing, public ownership, quid pro quo, rapport, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation, saprophytism, seesaw, self-consistency, sharecropping, sharing, simultaneity, socialism, society, something for something, sponsorship, state ownership, support, symbiosis, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synergism, synergy, tally, teamwork, timing, tit for tat, town meeting, transposal, transposition, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action

• cooperative, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, accompanying, accordant, acquiescent, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, alliance, amenable, amicable, answerable, ardent, assemblage, associate, associated, association, at one, at one with, axis, band, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, bloc, body, boutique, chain store, co-op, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coadunate, coalition, coefficient, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, college, collusive, combination, combine, combined, combining, commensal, commensurate, common, common market, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, commutual, compatible, compliant, concerted, concession, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, confederacy, confederation, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, conjoint, conniving, consentaneous, consentient, consenting, consilient, consistent, consonant, conspiratorial, consumer cooperative, content, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative society, coordinate, corps, correspondent, corresponding, council, countinghouse, country store, coworking, credit union, customs union, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, disposed, docile, eager, economic community, ecumenic, emporium, en rapport, enthusiastic, equivalent, establishment, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, federation, fellow, five-and-ten, forward, free trade area, friendly, game, gang, general, general store, group, grouping, harmonious, harmonized, house, in accord, in agreement, in common, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, in the mind, in the mood, inaccordance, inclined, inharmony, joint, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, league, like-minded, machine, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, meeting, minded, mob, mutual, neighborly, noncompetitive, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, parasitic, partnership, pliant, political machine, popular, positive, post, predisposed, prompt, prone, propitious, proportionate, public, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reciprocal, reconcilable, responsive, retail store, ring, salon, saprophytic, self-consistent, shop, social, socialistic, societal, society, store, supermarket, symbiotic, synchronized, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, tractable, trading post, unanimous, uncompetitive, uniform, union, unisonant, unisonous, united, uniting, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, well-affected, well-disposed, well-inclined, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, wholesale house, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

• coordinate, accommodate, accompanying, accord, accordant, adapt, adjust, adjust to, agreeing, all one, all the same, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, assimilate, associate, associated, at one with, attune, balance, balanced, brother, cancel, chart, close copy, close match, coacting, coactive, coadunate, codify, coequal, cognate, coincident, collaborative, collective, collusive, combined, combining, companion, compensate, complement, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conform, congenator, congener, conjoint, consilient, conspiratorial, convertible, cooperant, cooperative, correlate, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, counterbalance, counterpart, counterpoise, countervail, coworking, cut to, double, duplicate, equal, equalize, equate, equilateral, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, eurythmic, even, even up, fellow, finished, fit, fix, gear to, harmonious, harmonize, homologate, homologize, identical, image, integrate, joint, key to, kindred spirit, level, like, likeness, make plumb, make uniform, match, mate, measure, meeting, methodize, much the same, near duplicate, normalize, obverse, organize, parallel, parasitic, pendant, picture, plan, poise, proportion, proportionate, proportioned, put in tune, rationalize, reciprocal, reconcile, rectify, regular, regularize, regulate, right, routinize, saprophytic, second self, set, set right, settle, similarize, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, square, standardize, strike a balance, such, suchlike, symbiotic, symmetric, symmetrize, sync, synchronize, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, systematize, tailor, tally, tantamount, the like of, the likes of, trim to, true, true up, tune, tune up, twin, uniform, united, uniting, vis-a-vis, well-balanced, well-set, well-set-up

• coordinated, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fancy, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, magisterial, masterful, masterly, neat, no mean, politic, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the complete, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike

• coordinates, Cartesian coordinates, abscissa, altitude, azimuth, boundaries, bounds, bourns, circumference, circumscription, compass, confines, cylindrical coordinates, declination, edges, equator coordinates, fringes, latitude, limitations, limits, longitude, marches, metes, metes and bounds, ordinate, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, polar coordinates, right ascension, skirts, verges

• coordination, ability, accommodation, accounting, adaptation, address, adeptness, adjustment, adroitness, airmanship, analysis, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, assimilation, attunement, automatic electronic navigation, balancing, braking, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, charting, cleverness, coaptation, codification, command, competence, computation, control, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, equalization, equalizing, equating, equation, equilibration, evening, evening up, expertise, facility, fact distribution, finesse, forecasts, grace, grip, handiness, harmonization, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inspection, integration, know-how, manipulation, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, methodization, nonlinear calibrations, normalization, ordination, organization, output measurement, planning, practical ability, processing, proficiency, prowess, quickness, rationalization, readiness, reconcilement, reconciliation, record keeping, regularization, regulation, resource, resourcefulness, routinization, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, skill, skillfulness, squaring, steering, style, supersonic flow detection, symmetrization, synchronization, systematization, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• cop a plea, acknowledge, admit, admit everything, allow, avow, come clean, concede, confess, cop out, escape without penalty, get away with, get by, get off, get off cheap, go at liberty, go free, go scot free, grant, let on, open up, out with it, own, own up, plead guilty, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell all, tell the truth, win freedom

• cop out, abatement of differences, abstain, abstention, accommodate, accommodation, adjust, adjustment, alibi, anythingarianism, arrangement, bargain, cash in, check out, compose, composition, compound, compromise, concession, conk, cop a plea, croak, deal, desertion of principle, die, drop, duck responsibility, duck the issue, escape without penalty, evade, evade responsibility, evade the issue, evasion, evasion of responsibility, excuse, fence-sitting, forsake the world, get away with, get by, get off, get off cheap, give and take, give way, give-and-take, giving way, go, go at liberty, go fifty-fifty, go free, go into retirement, go scot free, impartiality, independence, kick in, kick off, lame excuse, likely story, live alone, live apart, live in retirement, make a deal, make an adjustment, make concessions, meet halfway, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, mutual concession, neutralism, neutrality, nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, out, peg out, play politics, poor excuse, reach a compromise, remain incommunicado, retire, rusticate, settle, settlement, sit it out, split the difference, stand neuter, stay at home, straddle, strict neutrality, strike a balance, strike a bargain, surrender, take the mean, take the veil, trim, understanding, win freedom, yield, yielding

• cop, Dogberry, John Law, abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bluecoat, bobby, boost, borrow, bull, cabbage, clout, complex cone, cone, conelet, conoid, copper, cornet, crib, defraud, dick, embezzle, extort, filch, flatfoot, flattie, funnel, fuzz, gendarme, gumshoe, heat, hook, ice-cream cone, lift, make off with, man, nab, nip, officer, palm, peeler, pig, pilfer, pinch, pine cone, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shamus, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, the cops, the fuzz, the law, thieve, walk off with

• cope with, a outrance, accomplish, act toward, bandy with, battle, battle it out, behave toward, bump heads, care for, complete, conduct, contend with, cross swords with, deal by, deal with, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do by, do with, enact, engage with, exchange shots, execute, fight like devils, fight with, go to loggerheads, grapple with, handle, have it out, lock horns, make, manage, measure swords with, perform, respond to, settle it, steward, strive with, struggle with, take care of, tangle with, tilt with, transact, treat, try conclusions with, use, wrestle with

• cope, apply to, blanket, block, canopy, challenge, cloak, clothe, cloud, come through, compete, compete with, contend against, contend with, cope with, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, deal with, dispose of, do with, eclipse, eke out, emulate, film, get along, get along on, get by, get by on, handle, hood, jockey, keep afloat, lay on, lay over, make do, make ends meet, make out, makeshift, manage, manage with, mantle, mask, meet, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, outvie, overlay, overspread, put on, rival, scrape along, screen, scum, shield, spread over, subsist, superimpose, superpose, survive, test one another, veil, vie, vie with, withstand

• copious, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, bursting, bursting out, capacious, comprehensive, countless, creative, diffuse, diffusive, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exhaustless, expansive, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, generous, gushing, gushy, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, spacious, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, voluminous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide

• copper, C, C-note, Dogberry, G, G-note, John Law, Titian, adust, auburn, aureate, bar, bay, bay-colored, bayard, bluecoat, bobby, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, buck, bull, bullion, cartwheel, castaneous, cent, century, chestnut, chestnut-brown, coin gold, coin silver, cop, copper-colored, coppery, cupreous, cuprous, dick, dime, dollar, dollar bill, ferrous, ferruginous, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flatfoot, flattie, four bits, foxy, frogskin, fuzz, gendarme, gilt, gold, gold nugget, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, grand, gumshoe, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, heat, henna, hundred-dollar bill, ingot, iron, iron man, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, mahogany, man, mercurial, mercurous, mill, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, nugget, officer, peeler, penny, pewter, pewtery, pig, precious metals, quarter, quicksilver, red cent, reddish-brown, roan, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, sawbuck, shamus, silver, silver dollar, silver-plated, silvery, skin, smacker, steel, steely, sunburned, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, terra-cotta, the cops, the fuzz, the law, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, tin, tinny, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard, yellow stuff

• copse, batch, bocage, boscage, bosk, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copsewood, covert, crop, frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, holt, hurst, knot, lot, mess, motte, orchard, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thicket, thickset, tope, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood lot, woodlet

• copulate, accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, ball, band, be intimate, beget, bill and coo, bond, bracket, breed, breed true, bridge, bridge over, bunch, bunch up, cement, chain, clap together, clot, cluster, cohabit, collect, combine, come together, commit adultery, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, converge, couple, cover, crossbreed, crowd, dally, date, diddle, embrace, encompass, engender, father, flock together, flow together, forgather, fornicate, frig, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, generate, get, glue, have sex, have sexual relations, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, inbreed, include, join, knot, lay, lay together, league, lie with, link, lollygag, lump together, make it with, make love, make out, marry, marshal, mass, mate, meet, merge, mill, mobilize, mother, mount, multiply, muster, neck, outbreed, pair, pet, piece together, procreate, proliferate, propagate, put together, rally, rally around, rendezvous, reproduce in kind, roll into one, screw, seethe, serve, service, sire, sleep with, smooch, solder, span, splice, spoon, stick together, stream, surge, swarm, sweet-talk, take in, tape, throng, tie, toy, trifle, unify, unite, wanton, weld, whisper sweet nothings, yoke

• copy, Doppelganger, Photostat, Xerox, abstract, abstraction, act, act a part, act as, act like, act out, actual thing, adopt, affect, agent, altarpiece, alternate, alternative, analogy, ape, appear like, approach, appropriate, approximate, arrangement, article, assume, autograph, back number, backup, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, beat, block print, blueprint, borrow, brainchild, bring to mind, brouillon, budget of news, burlesque, call to mind, call up, carbon, carbon copy, cartoon, chalk, change, changeling, charcoal, chart, chorus, clone, collage, collection, color, color print, come again, come close, come near, companion, compare with, comparison, composed matter, composition, computer printout, copy out, correspond, counterfeit, counterpart, crayon, crib, crosshatch, cyclorama, dash off, daub, dead matter, dead ringer, delineate, delineation, depict, deputy, derive from, design, diagram, diptych, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, document, doodle, double, draft, draw, draw up, drawing, dummy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, ebauche, echo, edit, edited version, edition, effigy, elevation, emulate, enact, enface, engraving, engross, engrossment, equal, equivalent, ersatz, esquisse, essay, evoke, exact counterpart, exact likeness, example, exchange, exclusive, facsimile, fair copy, fake, favor, fellow, fiction, figure, fill-in, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, follow, forge, fresco, geminate, ghost, ghostwriter, go like, graph, ground plan, hatch, hectograph, hoke, hoke up, holograph, homograph, homonym, homophone, house plan, hymnal, hymnbook, ichnography, icon, idem, identical same, idol, illumination, illustration, image, imitate, imitation, impersonate, impress, impression, imprint, infringe, ingeminate, inscribe, instrumental score, issue, knockoff, letter, library, library edition, libretto, likeness, limn, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, live matter, living image, living picture, locum tenens, look like, lucubration, lute tablature, make a recension, make like, make out, make over, make use of, makeshift, manifold, manuscript, masquerade as, match, mate, matter, metaphor, metonymy, microcopy, microfilm, mime, mimeo, mimeograph, mimic, miniature, mirror, mirroring, mock, mock-up, model, montage, mosaic, multigraph, multiply by two, mural, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, near, nearly reproduce, news item, next best thing, no other, none other, nonfiction, not tell apart, notation, number, opera, opera score, opus, orchestral score, original, outline, paint, paint a picture, palingenesis, panorama, pantomime, paper, parallel, paraphrase, parchment, parody, parrot, part, partake of, pass for, pattern, pen, pencil, penscript, perform, personate, personnel, phony, photocopy, photograph, piano score, picture, picturize, piece, piece of writing, pinch hitter, pirate, plagiarize, play, play a part, plot, poem, portrait, portray, pose as, pretend to be, print, printed matter, printing, printout, production, profile, projection, proxy, push the pen, put in writing, quadruplicate, quote, re-create, re-creation, re-form, re-formation, reading matter, rebirth, rebuild, rebuilding, recense, recension, reconstitute, reconstitution, reconstruct, reconstruction, record, redesign, redo, redoing, redouble, reduplicate, reduplication, reecho, reedition, reestablish, reestablishment, refashion, refashioning, reflect, reflection, refound, regenerate, regeneration, regenesis, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinstitute, reinstitution, reissue, relief, remake, remaking, remind one of, renascence, renew, renovate, renovation, reorganization, reorganize, repeat, repetition, replacement, replica, replicate, replication, representation, representative, reprint, reprinting, reproduce, reproduction, resemblance, resemble, reserves, reshape, reshaping, restoration, restore, restructure, restructuring, resurrect, resurrection, revise, revision, revival, revive, rewrite, ringer, rough, rubbing, sample, savor of, say again, school edition, scoop, score, scratch, screed, scribe, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, scumble, second draft, second string, secondary, seem like, selfsame, semblance, series, set, shade, shadow, sham, sheet music, short score, sign, similitude, simulacrum, simulate, skeleton, sketch, smack of, songbook, songster, sound like, spares, specimen, spill ink, spit and image, spitting image, spoil paper, spot news, stack up with, stained glass window, stand-in, standing matter, stat, steal, stencil, still life, story, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, suggest, superscribe, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, synonym, tablature, table, tableau, take, take after, take off, take on, take over, tapestry, text, the same, the same difference, the written word, third string, tint, token, trace, tracing, trade book, trade edition, transcribe, transcript, transcription, travesty, triplicate, triptych, twin, type, typescript, understudy, utility player, version, very image, very picture, very same, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, vocal score, volume, wall painting, work, working drawing, write, write down, write out, writing, written music

• copyboy, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie, callboy, caller, chore boy, cupbearer, errand boy, errand girl, footboy, gofer, hostess, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, squire, steward, stewardess, tender, trainbearer, usher, yeoman

• copycat, ape, conformist, copier, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, sheep, simulator

• copyhold, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, fee, fee simple, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, lease, leasehold, legal estate, paramount estate, particular estate, remainder, reversion, vested estate

• copyist, amanuensis, ape, artisan, artist, artiste, calligrapher, chirographer, clerk, conformist, copier, copycat, counterfeiter, craftsman, creator, cuckoo, dauber, daubster, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, ink spiller, inkslinger, letterer, maker, master, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, old master, parrot, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, recording secretary, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, sheep, simulator, transcriber, word-slinger, writer

• copyreader, city editor, columnist, copy chief, copy editor, copyholder, copyman, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, pressman, proofreader, publicist, reader, reporter, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, sports editor, subeditor, war correspondent

• copyright, aegis, arm, arm guard, armor, backstop, blank check, bless, bound, buffer, bulwark, bumper, carte blanche, certificate of invention, champion, cloak, compass about, condition, confine, conserve, contain, contraceptive, cover, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, defend, discipline, dispensation, dodger, draw the line, ensure, face mask, favor, fence, fend, fender, finger guard, foot guard, franchise, freedom, fuse, goggles, governor, grant, guarantee, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, harbor, hard hat, haven, hedge about, helmet, immunity, indulgence, insulation, insure, interlock, keep, keep alive, keep from harm, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep safe, keep up, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, liberty, license, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, limit, maintain, make safe, mask, moderate, mudguard, narrow, nestle, nose guard, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not use up, not waste, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, police, preserve, preventive, privilege, prophylactic, protect, protective clothing, protective umbrella, qualify, register, registered trademark, restrain, restrict, ride shotgun for, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, save, scant, screen, seat belt, secure, service mark, shelter, shield, shin guard, shroud, spare, special favor, specialize, stint, straiten, sun helmet, support, sustain, trade name, trademark, umbrella, underwrite, uphold, warrant, windscreen, windshield

• copywriter, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prose writer, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, word painter, wordsmith, writer

• coquetry, amorous looks, come-hither look, coquettish glances, coquettishness, coyness, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, fiddling, flirtation, flirtatiousness, fooling, fooling around, goo-goo eyes, idling, jerking off, kidding around, loitering, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, ogle, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puttering, smattering, tinkering, toying, trifling

• coquette, Circe, Don Juan, Lorelei, Parthenope, Siren, captive, catch, charmer, conquest, date, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, femme fatale, flirt, gold digger, honey, inveigler, seducer, seductress, siren, steady, strumpet, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, teaser, tempter, temptress, vamp, vampire, whore

• coquettish, alluring, amative, amatory, appealing, appetizing, arch, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, caressive, catching, changeable, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coy, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, faddish, fascinating, fetching, fickle, flighty, flirtatious, flirty, glamorous, hypnotic, inconstant, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, light, mercurial, mesmeric, mouth-watering, piquant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, quicksilver, ravishing, roguish, seducing, seductive, sexual, siren, sirenic, skittish, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, toying, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, versatile, volatile, winning, winsome, witching

• Cora, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysos, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Eros, Flora, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Pomona, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Tellus, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit

• coral reef, ait, archipelago, atoll, bank, bar, bill, breakwater, cape, cay, chersonese, continental island, coral head, coral island, delta, flat, ford, foreland, head, headland, holm, hook, insularity, island, island group, islandology, isle, islet, key, mull, naze, ness, oceanic island, peninsula, point, promontory, reef, sandbank, sandbar, sandspit, shallow, shallows, shelf, shoal, shoal water, spit, spur, tidal flats, tongue, wetlands

• cord, beam, billet, board, boarding, braid, brail, cable, clapboard, cordwood, deal, driftwood, firewood, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, log, lumber, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, rope, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, softwood, splat, spun yarn, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, string, tendon, thong, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, twine, twist, two-by-four, weatherboard, wire, wood, yarn

• cordage, accommodation, burden, capacity, content, cording, gear, limit, measure, poundage, quantity, rigging, room, ropework, roping, space, stowage, tack, tackle, tonnage, volume

• cordial, Benedictine, Bohemian, Chartreuse, Danziger Goldwasser, Drambuie, Galliano, Irish Mist, Strega, Triple Sec, ablaze, affable, afire, agreeable, amiable, amicable, analeptic, ardent, blissful, boiling over, bonhomous, bracer, bracing, breathless, brisk, burning, casual, cheerful, cheering, compatible, complaisant, congenial, courteous, crisp, crispy, degage, delirious, desirable, drunk, dulcet, easy, easy-natured, easygoing, en rapport, energizing, enjoyable, enlivenment, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarating, exhilaration, exuberant, fair, fair and pleasant, familiar, febrile, felicific, felicitous, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, fine, flaming, flushed, folksy, framboise, free and easy, fresh, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, glowing, good, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, green Chartreuse, harmonious, haymish, heart-warming, heartfelt, hearty, heated, homely, homey, honeyed, hospitable, hot, impassioned, informal, intense, intoxicated, invigorating, invigoration, irregular, keen, kindly, liberal, likable, liqueurs, lively, loose, maraschino, mellifluous, mellow, mild, natural, neighborly, nice, offhand, offhanded, on fire, open, openhearted, parfait amour, passionate, pear brandy, pick-me-up, plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, polite, pousse-cafe, rainbow cordial, reanimation, receptive, recreation, red-hot, refection, refreshful, refreshing, refreshment, regale, regalement, regaling, reinvigoration, relaxed, renewal, responsive, restorative, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, rewarding, roborant, rousing, satisfying, simple, sincere, sloe gin, sociable, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stimulation, sweet, sweet-tempered, sympathetic, tender, tonic, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, unofficial, unrestrained, unstudied, vigorous, vitamin shot, vivification, warm, warmhearted, welcome, welcoming, well-natured, wholehearted, zealous, zestful, zesty

• cordiality, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, approbation, approval, enjoyableness, favor, geniality, gratefulness, mutuality, pleasance, pleasantness, reciprocity, responsiveness, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth

• cordon bleu, Admirable Crichton, adept, artisan, artist, attache, authority, blue ribbon, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, decoration, decoration of honor, diplomat, diplomatist, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, garter, gold star, graduate, grand cordon, handy man, journeyman, marksman, no slouch, order, ornament, politician, pro, professional, professor, proficient, red ribbon, riband, ribbon, savant, shark, sharp, star, statesman, technical adviser, technician

• cordon, advance guard, armed guard, bank guard, beleaguer, beset, besiege, block, blockade, blue ribbon, bolt, bottleneck, bound, box in, cage, catch, chamber, close in, coast guard, compass, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon bleu, cordon off, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, corral, cull out, curtain, decoration, decoration of honor, determent, deterrent, difficulty, divide, drawback, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, fence in, garrison, garter, ghettoize, gin, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, gold star, grand cordon, guard, guarder, guardsman, hang-up, hazard, hedge in, hem in, hitch, house in, hurdle, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inlying picket, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, jailer, joker, keep apart, keep aside, kennel, lay aside, leaguer, mew, mew up, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, order, ornament, outguard, outpost, pen, pen in, pick out, picket, pocket, put aside, quarantine, quarantine flag, rail in, rear guard, red ribbon, riband, ribbon, riddle, rope off, rub, sanitary cordon, screen, seal off, seclude, seclusion, security guard, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, set aside, shrine, shut in, shut up, sieve, sift, snag, sort out, stable, star, stumbling block, stumbling stone, surround, thrash, thresh, train guard, van, vanguard, wall in, warder, winnow, wrap, yard, yard up, yellow flag, yellow jack

• corduroy, Aralac, Avisco, Axminster, Celanese, Dacron, Dynel, Georgette, Harris Tweed, Lastex, Leatherette, Orlon, Qiana, Revolite, Terylene, Ultrasuede, Velon, Vicara, acetate, acetate rayon, alpaca, arras, astrakhan, baize, batik, blanketing, broadcloth, broadloom, brocade, broken ground, broken water, bunting, calico, cambric, canaliculate, canaliculated, canvas, carpeting, cashmere, castor, chamfered, channeled, cheesecloth, chiffon, chinchilla, chintz, chop, coating, cord, corduroy road, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, corrugation, costate, cotton, crash, crepe, crepe de chine, cretonne, crimped, crinoline, cut, dadoed, damask, denim, doeskin, drill, drilling, drugget, duck, duffel, engraved, felt, flannel, flannelette, fleece, fluted, foulard, frieze, furrowed, fustian, gashed, gauze, gingham, goffered, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gossamer, gouged, grenadine, grogram, grooved, grosgrain, gunny, haircloth, herringbone, hessian, homespun, hop sacking, horripilation, horsehair, huck, huckaback, incised, jersey, lame, lawn, linen, linoleum, linsey-woolsey, lisle, list, loden, longcloth, lop, luster, mackinaw, mackintosh, madras, maline, manta, mantua, marquisette, mat, matting, melton, messaline, mohair, moire, moleskin, mousseline de soie, murrey, muslin, nainsook, nankeen, near-silk, net, netting, nylon, oil silk, oilcloth, organdy, organza, paisley, panne, panne velvet, pepper-and-salt, percale, pique, plaid, pleated, plush, polyester, pongee, poplin, print, quilting, rabbeted, radium, rayon, rayon casheen, rep, ribbed, rifled, ripple, rough, rugging, russet, rutted, rutty, sackcloth, sacking, sailcloth, sandpaper, sarcenet, sateen, satin, say, scored, scratched, seersucker, serge, shalloon, shantung, sharkskin, sheers, sheeting, shoddy, shot silk, silk, slit, spun rayon, stamin, stammel, stockinette, striated, stuff, suede, sulcate, sulcated, swansdown, tabaret, tabby, taffeta, taffety, tapestry, tarpaulin, tartan, terry cloth, tick, ticking, tricotine, troughed, tulle, tussah, tussore, tweed, twill, veiling, velours, velure, velvet, velveteen, voile, wash-and-wear fabric, washboard, watered fabric, webbing, wool, worsted, wrinkled

• core, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, amidships, amount, average, axiom, axis, barrio, base, basis, beginning, bench mark, black ghetto, blighted area, body, bosom, bulk, burden, business district, cardinal point, center, center of action, center of gravity, central, central city, centroid, centrum, chief thing, city center, climax, commencement, consequence, cornerstone, corpus, crisis, critical point, crux, dead center, deepest recesses, diameter, diaphragm, distillate, distillation, downtown, elixir, epicenter, equator, equatorial, equidistant, essence, essential, essential matter, fabric, flower, focus, foundation, fundamental, ghetto, gist, gravamen, great point, greenbelt, halfway, heart, heart of hearts, high point, hub, hypostasis, import, importance, important thing, inner, inner city, inner essence, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, insides, interior, interior man, intermediary, intermediate, intern, internal, intrados, inward, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, main point, main thing, marrow, mass, material, material point, matter, mean, meat, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, medulla, mesial, metacenter, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midtown, midway, milestone, nave, navel, nub, nuclear, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, origin, outskirts, penetralia, pit, pith, pivot, postulate, principle, purport, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, recap, recapitulation, recesses, red-light district, residential district, resume, root, run-down neighborhood, run-through, rundown, salient point, sap, secret place, secret places, seed, shopping center, significance, sine qua non, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, soul, spirit, staple, start, storm center, stuff, substance, substantive point, suburbia, suburbs, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, tenderloin, tenement district, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, thick, thick of things, thrust, turning point, umbilicus, upshot, uptown, urban blight, vital center, vitals, waist, waistline, zone

• cork, Carling float, air, asphyxiate, balsa, balsa raft, bar, bark, bedarken, besmirch, bind, black, blacken, blackwash, block, block up, blockade, blot, blotch, bob, bonnet, boom, bottle up, box up, bubble, bung, buoy, cage, cap, caulk, ceil, censor, chaff, charcoal, check, check valve, chink, chip, choke, choke off, choke up, clamp down on, clog, clog up, cloister, cobweb, cock, coif, confine, congest, constipate, constrain, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, cortex, cover, crack down on, crib, crown, crush, dam, dam up, damp down, darken, denigrate, detain, dinge, dome, down, drown, dust, ebonize, encage, enclose, epicarp, ether, extinguish, fairy, faucet, feather, fence in, fill, fill up, float, flue, fluff, foam, foul, froth, fuzz, gag, gossamer, hat, hem in, hold, hold down, hold in, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hood, immure, impound, inhibit, ink, jam, jump on, keep, keep down, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep under, kill, lid, life buoy, life preserver, life raft, lock in, maintain, melanize, mew, mew up, mote, murk, muzzle, nigrify, obstipate, obstruct, oversmoke, pack, peel, peeling, peg, pen, pen up, phellum, pin, plug, plug up, pontoon, pound, pour water on, preserve, put down, quash, quell, quench, raft, rail in, repress, restrain, restrict, retain, rind, roof, roof in, save, save up, sea cock, seal up, shackle, shade, shadow, shut down on, shut in, shut up, silence, sit down on, sit on, skin, smash, smirch, smoke, smother, smudge, smut, smutch, soot, spigot, spike, spile, spill, sponge, spume, squash, squelch, stanch, stay, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stopgap, stopper, stopple, strangle, straw, stuff, stuff up, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, surfboard, tap, thistledown, throttle, tip, top, valve, wall in

• corkscrew, anfractuous, aspirator, bottle opener, can opener, church key, cirrus, clavis, cochlear, cochleate, coil, contort, corkscrewy, crinkle, crowbar, curl, curlicue, entwine, evolute, extractor, forceps, gyre, helical, helicoid, helix, intort, involute, key, kink, latchkey, latchstring, master key, meander, open sesame, opener, passkey, pincers, pipette, pliers, press, pump, ringlet, roll, scallop, screw, screw-shaped, scroll, scrolled, separator, serpentine, siphon, skeleton key, slink, snake, spiral, spiroid, swirl, tendril, tin opener, turbinal, turbinate, turn, tweezers, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, vacuum pump, verticillate, volute, voluted, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl, whorled, wind, worm, wreathe, wring, wringer

• corn belt, agricultural region, arable land, black belt, citrus belt, cotton belt, countryside, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fruit belt, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, highlands, lowlands, meadows and pastures, moors, plains, prairies, province, provinces, rural district, rustic region, steppes, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, uplands, veld, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

• corn, Joe Miller, aftergrass, anhydrate, bamboo, banality, barley, benign tumor, bird seed, blast-freeze, boil, bran, brine, bromide, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, cane, carbuncle, carcinoma, cat food, cereal, cereal plant, chestnut, chicken feed, chop, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, cure, cyst, dehydrate, desiccate, dilatation, dilation, distension, dog food, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, eatage, edema, embalm, ensilage, evaporate, excrescence, familiar tune, farinaceous plant, feed, fodder, fog, forage, forage grass, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, growth, hackneyed saying, hay, intumescence, irradiate, jerk, joke with whiskers, kipper, lawn grass, lieu commun, locus communis, lump, malignant growth, marinade, marinate, mash, meal, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, mummify, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, oats, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, old turkey, old wheeze, ornamental grass, outgrowth, pasturage, pasture, pet food, pickle, pimple, platitude, pock, preservatize, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, proud flesh, provender, pustule, quick-freeze, reed, refrigerate, reiteration, retold story, rising, salt, sarcoma, scratch, scratch feed, season, sebaceous cyst, silage, slops, smoke, smoke-cure, stereotyped saying, straw, stuff, swell, swelling, swill, swollenness, trite joke, trite saying, triticism, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twice-told tale, verruca, warmed-over cabbage, wart, wen, wheat

• corncob, Missouri meerschaum, auricle, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet, churchwarden, clay, cob, corncob pipe, ear, ear of corn, hookah, hubble-bubble, mealie, meerschaum, nargileh, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, spike, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, water pipe

• corneous, bony, cement, cemental, concrete, dense, diamondlike, dure, flintlike, flinty, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, obdurate, osseous, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, solid, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, tough

• corner, L, a corner on, aberrancy, aberration, absorb, alcove, angle, apex, asylum, bay, bear raid, bend, bias, bifurcation, bight, blind alley, bolt-hole, bother, bottle up, box, branching off, bull raid, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, cache, cant, capture, carrel, catch, chevron, circuitousness, coin, collar, complete a purchase, concealment, corner in, cornering, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crank, cranny, crook, crotchet, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cul-de-sac, curve, dark corner, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, declination, deflection, den, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, dilemma, discursion, disturb, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, double a point, drift, drifting, dugout, elbow, ell, engross, engrossment, errantry, exclusive possession, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, extremity, fix, forestall, forestallment, fork, foxhole, funk hole, furcation, go around, hairpin, halt, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hog, hole, hook, impasse, indirection, inflection, inglenook, jam, knee, lair, make a buy, manipulation, monopolization, monopolize, monopoly, nab, niche, nook, obliquity, oriel, pererration, pickle, pitchhole, plight, point, procure, purchase, put out, quoin, raid, rambling, rebuy, recess, recession, refuge, regrate, repurchase, retreat, rigging, roomlet, round, round a bend, round a corner, round a point, sanctuary, scrape, secret place, seize, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, snuggery, stalemate, stand, standstill, stash, stop, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, take it all, tie up, trap, tree, trouble, turn, turn a corner, turning, twist, undercovert, variation, veer, vertex, wandering, warp, wash sale, washing, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag

• cornered, V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, at bay, aux abois, bent, between two fires, crooked, crotched, endangered, forked, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, hooked, imperiled, in a corner, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case, in extremis, in jeopardy, jagged, jeopardized, knee-shaped, on the spot, pointed, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, threatened, treed, up a stump, up a tree, zigzag

• cornerstone, bench mark, cardinal point, chief thing, climax, core, crisis, critical point, crux, essence, essential, essential matter, first stone, footstone, foundation stone, fundamental, gist, gravamen, great point, headstone, heart, high point, important thing, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, main point, main thing, material point, meat, milestone, nub, pith, pivot, quoin, real issue, salient point, sine qua non, substance, substantive point, the bottom line, the point, turning point

• cornet, English horn, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, complex cone, concert flute, cone, conelet, conoid, cop, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, cromorna, cymbel, diapason, double-bell euphonium, dulciana, euphonium, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, funnel, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, helicon, horn, hunting horn, hybrid stop, ice-cream cone, key trumpet, koppel flute, larigot, lituus, lur, mellophone, melodia, mixture, mutation stop, nazard, oboe, octave, ophicleide, orchestral horn, organ stop, piccolo, pine cone, plein jeu, pocket trumpet, posaune, post horn, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, sesquialtera, shawm, slide trombone, sliphorn, sousaphone, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, tenor tuba, tierce, tremolo, tromba, trombone, trumpet, tuba, twelfth, unda maris, valve trombone, valve trumpet, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana

• cornucopia, abundance, accumulation, amassment, backlog, bonanza, budget, collection, commissariat, commissary, cumulation, dump, endless supply, font, fount, fountain, gold mine, heap, hoard, horn of Amalthea, horn of plenty, inventory, larder, lode, mass, material, materials, materiel, mine, munitions, pile, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, quarry, rations, repertoire, repertory, resource, rick, source, source of supply, spring, stack, staple, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasury, vein, well, wellspring

• corny, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, fade, familiar, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, platitudinous, set, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, worn, worn thin

• corollary, accession, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, aftereffect, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, attendant, augment, augmentation, by-product, coda, complement, conclusion, concomitant, consequence, consequent, continuation, deduction, derivation, derivative, development, distillate, effect, end product, event, eventuality, eventuation, extension, extrapolation, fixture, fruit, harvest, illation, increase, increment, induction, inference, issue, legacy, logical outcome, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, pendant, precipitate, product, reinforcement, result, resultant, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, side effect, side issue, supplement, tailpiece, undergirding, upshot

• corona, Havana, O, androecium, annular muscle, annulus, anthelion, anther, antisun, areola, aura, aureole, belvedere, box of cigars, calyx, carpel, ceiling fixture, chandelier, chaplet, cheroot, chromosphere, cigar, cigar box, cigar case, cigar cutter, cigarillo, circle, circlet, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, colorado, corolla, corolla tube, corona lucis, coronet, countersun, crown, cycle, daystar, diadem, discus, disk, electrolier, epicalyx, eternal return, fairy ring, garland, gasolier, glory, gynoecium, halo, humidor, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, lunar corona, lunar halo, luster, magic circle, megasporophyll, microsporophyll, mock moon, mock sun, moon dog, nimbus, noose, orb of day, orbit, paraselene, parhelic circle, parhelion, perianth, petal, photosphere, pistil, radius, rainbow, receptacle, ring, rondelle, rope, round, roundel, saucer, solar corona, solar flare, solar halo, solar prominence, solar wind, sphincter, stamen, stigma, stinker, stogie, style, sun, sun dog, torus, trichinopoly, vicious circle, wheel, wreath

• coronary, abdominal, anal, angina, angina pectoris, annular, annulate, annulose, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, appendical, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, auricular fibrillation, beriberi heart, cardiac, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, cecal, circinate, circular, colic, colonic, congenital heart disease, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, crownlike, cyclic, cycloid, diastolic hypertension, discoid, disklike, duodenal, encased heart, endocarditis, enteric, extrasystole, fatty heart, fibroid heart, flask-shaped heart, frosted heart, gastric, hairy heart, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, high blood pressure, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, ileac, intestinal, ischemic heart disease, jejunal, mesogastric, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myovascular insufficiency, ox heart, palpitation, paralytic stroke, paroxysmal tachycardia, pericarditis, pile, premature beat, pseudoaortic insufficiency, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pyloric, rectal, rheumatic heart disease, ring-shaped, ringlike, round, round heart, rounded, sclerosis, splanchnic, stony heart, stroke, tachycardia, thrombosis, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, turtle heart, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation, visceral

• coronation, accedence, accession, anointing, anointment, appointment, arrogation, assignment, assumption, authorization, consecration, delegation, deputation, election, empowerment, enthronement, inauguration, induction, installation, installment, instatement, investiture, legitimate succession, placement, seizure, succession, taking office, taking over, usurpation

• coroner, Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, autopsy, country doctor, croaker, doc, doctor, family doctor, general practitioner, house physician, inquest, intern, leech, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, medico, mortality committee, necropsy, necroscopy, physician, physician in ordinary, postmortem, postmortem examination, resident, resident physician, sawbones

• coronet, O, achievement, alerion, animal charge, anklet, annular muscle, annulet, annulus, areola, argent, armlet, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aureole, azure, bandeau, bangle, bar, bar sinister, baton, beads, bearings, bend, bend sinister, bijou, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, bracelet, breastpin, broad arrow, brooch, cadency mark, canton, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, chain, chaplet, charge, charm, chatelaine, chevron, chief, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, coat of arms, cockatrice, corona, coronal, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cycle, device, diadem, difference, differencing, discus, disk, eagle, earring, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, eternal return, fairy ring, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fob, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gem, glory, great seal, griffin, gules, gyron, halo, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, jewel, label, lasso, lion, locket, logical circle, loop, looplet, lozenge, magic circle, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, necklace, nombril point, noose, nose ring, octofoil, or, orb, orbit, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pin, precious stone, privy seal, purple, purple pall, purpure, quarter, quartering, radius, regalia, rhinestone, ring, robe of state, rod, rod of empire, rondelle, rose, round, roundel, royal crown, sable, saltire, saucer, scepter, scutcheon, seal, shield, signet, sphincter, spread eagle, stickpin, stone, subordinary, tenne, tiara, tincture, torque, torse, tressure, triple plume, unicorn, uraeus, vair, vert, vicious circle, wampum, wheel, wreath, wristband, wristlet, yale

• corporal punishment, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping

• corporal, NCO, acting corporal, acting sergeant, altar cloth, baldacchino, baldachin, baptismal font, bodily, carnal, centurion, cerecloth, chancel screen, chief warrant officer, chrismal, color sergeant, corporeal, earthly, fanon, first sergeant, fleshly, havildar, hylic, jube, kneeling stool, lance corporal, lance sergeant, master sergeant, material, materiate, mess sergeant, naik, noncom, noncommissioned officer, nonspiritual, oblation cloth, paten, physical, piscina, platoon sergeant, prayer rug, prie-dieu, reredos, rood cloth, rood screen, sacrament cloth, sarge, secular, sergeant, sergeant first class, sergeant major, somatic, staff sergeant, stoup, substantial, technical sergeant, temporal, top sergeant, topkick, unspiritual, warrant officer, worldly

• corporate, affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, cabalistic, coincident, combined, compact, comprehensive, concurrent, confederate, confederated, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, conspiratorial, coupled, enleagued, federate, federated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, inclusive, incorporated, joined, joint, leagued, married, paired, partners with, teamed, wed, wedded

• corporation, Aktiengesellschaft, agency, aktiebolag, atelier, barbershop, bay window, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, body corporate, business, business establishment, butcher shop, cartel, chamber of commerce, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, desk, diversified corporation, enterprise, establishment, facility, firm, holding company, house, industry, installation, institution, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, loft, operating company, organization, parlor, partnership, paunch, plunderbund, pod, pool, pot, public utility, shop, stock company, studio, sweatshop, syndicate, trade association, trust, utility, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

• corporeal, bodily, carnal, corporal, earthly, fleshly, gross, hylic, material, materiate, nonspiritual, objective, phenomenal, physical, secular, sensible, somatic, substantial, tangible, temporal, unspiritual, worldly

• corps, Bund, KP, Rochdale cooperative, adjutant general corps, age group, air corps, alliance, armored corps, army, army corps, army group, army nurse corps, assemblage, association, axis, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, bloc, body, brigade, bugle corps, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, chemical corps, clique, coalition, cohort, college, column, combat command, combat team, combination, combine, common market, company, complement, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, corps of cadets, corps of signals, corps troops, coterie, council, covey, credit union, crew, crowd, customs union, dental corps, detachment, detail, division, drum corps, economic community, engineer corps, faction, federation, field army, field train, file, fleet, flying column, free trade area, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, junta, kitchen police, league, legion, machine, maniple, marine corps, medical corps, military police corps, mob, movement, ordnance corps, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, partnership, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, political machine, posse, quartermaster corps, rank, regiment, rifle corps, ring, salon, section, set, signal corps, society, squad, squadron, stable, string, tactical unit, tank corps, task force, team, train, transportation corps, tribe, troop, troupe, union, unit, veterinary corps, wing

• corpse, ashes, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, body, bones, broomstick, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay, clothes pole, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, food for worms, lanky, late lamented, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, organic remains, rattlebones, relics, reliquiae, remains, shadow, skeleton, slim, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, stack of bones, stiff, stilt, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, twiggy, walking skeleton

• corpulent, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, coarse, crass, dense, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, full-bodied, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, massive, meaty, obese, overblown, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, three-dimensional, top-heavy, tubby, viscous, weighty, well-fed

• Corpus Christi, Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek

• corpus delicti, ashes, body, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, circumstantial evidence, clay, collateral evidence, corpse, crowbait, cumulative evidence, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, direct evidence, documentary evidence, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, evidence in chief, ex parte evidence, extrinsic evidence, food for worms, hearsay, hearsay evidence, incriminating evidence, indirect evidence, intrinsic evidence, late lamented, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, oral evidence, organic remains, presumptive evidence, prima facie evidence, relics, reliquiae, remains, skeleton, stiff, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, word-of-mouth evidence

• corpus, A to Z, A to izzard, Festschrift, acquaintance, aggregate, all, all and sundry, alpha and omega, ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, assemblage, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, body, bones, bulk, capital, capital gains distribution, capital structure, capitalization, carcass, chrestomathy, circulating capital, clay, clod, collectanea, collection, compilation, complement, core, data, datum, each and every, equity capital, everything, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, familiarity, figure, fixed capital, flesh, floating capital, florilegium, form, frame, fund, holdings, hulk, information, intelligence, intimacy, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, length and breadth, library, mass, material body, menagerie, moneyed capital, museum, one and all, package, package deal, person, physical body, physique, practical knowledge, principal, private knowledge, privity, ratio cognoscendi, raw data, self-knowledge, set, soma, staple, substance, technic, technics, technique, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the whole, the whole range, torso, treasure, trunk, venture capital, working capital, zoo

• corral, accumulate, acquire, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, assemble, bag, batch, be seized of, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bound, box in, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cage, capture, catch, chamber, close in, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, come by, come in for, come into, compare, compass, compile, conglomerate, contain, contract, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cumulate, derive, dig up, drag down, draw, draw together, dredge up, drive, drive together, drove, earn, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, enter into possession, fence, fence in, gain, gather, gather in, gather together, get, get in, get together, goad, group, harvest, hedge, hedge in, hem, hem in, herd, house in, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, jail, join, juxtapose, kennel, lash, leaguer, lump together, make, make up, mass, match, mew, mew up, mobilize, muster, net, obtain, pair, partner, pen, pen in, pocket, prick, procure, pull down, punch cattle, put together, quarantine, rail in, raise, rake up, rally, reap, ride herd on, round up, sack, score, scrape together, secure, shepherd, shrine, shut in, shut up, spur, stable, surround, take, take up, wall in, whip, whip in, win, wrangle, wrap, yard, yard up

• correct, Christian, OK, absolute, accepted, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, according to Hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapt, adapt to, adjectival, adjust, adjust to, admitted, admonish, adverbial, agree with, all right, ameliorate, amend, annul, appropriate, approved, apt, assimilate to, attentive, attributive, authentic, authoritative, awaken, be guided by, becoming, befitting, being done, bend, berate, better, blame, blue-pencil, break the spell, bring to account, bring to book, burst the bubble, call to account, cancel, canonical, careful, castigate, censure, change, chasten, chastise, chide, chime in with, close, comely, comme il faut, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, condign, conform, conformable, conforming, conjunctive, conscientious, conventional, copulative, correspond, counteract, counterbalance, critical, cure, customary, de rigueur, dead right, deal with, debunk, decent, decorous, delicate, demanding, detailed, disabuse, disappoint, discipline, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, done, due, edit, emend, emendate, enlighten, established, evangelical, exact, exacting, exigent, expose, exquisite, factual, faithful, fall in with, faultless, felicitous, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, fit, fitting, fix, flawless, follow, formal, functional, fussy, gear to, give satisfaction, glossematic, go by, good, good-mannered, grade, grammatic, happy, harmonize, have words with, impeccable, improve, in order, inflict upon, inspired, intransitive, just, just right, kosher, lecture, let down easy, let in on, letter-perfect, linking, literal, make all square, make conform, make good, make over, make right, make up for, mannerly, mark, masthead, meet, mend, meticulous, minute, modify, mold, narrow, natural, neutralize, nice, nominal, normal, normative, nullify, objurgate, observe, of the faith, offset, okay, orthodox, orthodoxical, participial, particular, pay reparations, penalize, perfect, pillory, postpositional, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prepositional, prick the bubble, pronominal, proper, punctilious, punctual, punish, put right, put straight, put to rights, rate, rebuke, received, recense, recognized, recompense, reconcile, rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refined, reform, regulate, religious, remedy, remunerate, repair, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, requite, revamp, reverse, revise, rework, rewrite, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigorous, rub off corners, scold, scriptural, scrupulous, scrutinizing, seemly, set, set down, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, settle, settle with, shape, show up, sound, spank, square accounts, standard, straight, straight-up-and-down, straighten, straighten out, strict, structural, substantive, subtle, suit, suitable, syntactic, tagmemic, take down, take to task, tally with, tell the truth, textual, traditional, traditionalistic, transitive, true, true-blue, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, undistorted, unimpeachable, unspell, upbraid, usual, valid, veracious, verbal, veridical, vigorous, visit upon, wake up, well-behaved, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-mannered, well-put, well-spoken, work over, yield

• correction, admonishment, admonition, amendment, amends, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chiding, compensation, computation, condign punishment, corrigendum, deserts, determination, disciplinary measures, discipline, editing, emendation, estimate, estimation, evaluation, ferule, fixing, gauging, improvement, infliction, instrumentation, judgment, judicial punishment, lecture, lesson, making right, measure, measurement, measuring, mending, mensuration, metric system, nemesis, objurgation, overhaul, overhauling, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, punishment, punition, quantification, quantization, rating, rebuke, recension, recompense, rectification, redaction, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, rescript, rescription, retribution, retributive justice, revampment, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, rod, satisfaction, scolding, scourge, sermon, spanking, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, triangulation, troubleshooting, upbraiding, valuation, well-deserved punishment, what-for

• corrective, Fabian, adjuvant, aid, alterative, analeptic, antidote, assistance, balm, balsam, castigatory, chastening, chastising, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curative, cure, disciplinary, emendatory, gradualistic, grueling, healing, healing agent, healing quality, help, iatric, inflictive, medicative, medicinal, melioristic, penal, penological, prescription, punishing, punitive, punitory, radical, receipt, recipe, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformist, reformistic, relief, remedial, remedial measure, remedy, restorative, retributive, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revolutionary, sanative, sanatory, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, succor, therapeutic, theriac, utopian

• correlate, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, apply, associate, bind, bracket, brother, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, complement, congenator, congener, connect, coordinate, corelate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, couple, draw a parallel, each other, equate, equivalent, fellow, identify, image, interrelate, kindred spirit, like, likeness, link, match, mate, near duplicate, obverse, one another, parallel, parallelize, pendant, picture, reciprocal, reciprocatist, reciprocator, relate, relativize, second self, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, such, suchlike, tally, the like of, the likes of, tie, twin, wed

• correlated, affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, bound, bracketed, collateral, conjugate, connected, corelated, corelational, corelative, correlational, correlative, coupled, implicated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, involved, joined, knotted, linked, of that ilk, of that kind, parallel, related, spliced, tied, twinned, wed, wedded, yoked

• correlation, allegory, analogy, balancing, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, confrontation, confrontment, contingency, contrast, contrastiveness, dependence, distinction, distinctiveness, interrelation, likening, matching, metaphor, opposing, opposition, parallelism, proportion, relation, relativity, simile, similitude, trope of comparison, weighing

• correlative, accessory, accompanying, affinitive, agnate, akin, allied, analogical, analogous, appertaining, associated, associative, attendant, attending, cognate, coincident, collatable, collateral, combined, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, concomitant, concurrent, congeneric, congenerous, congenial, conjoint, connate, connatural, connected, connective, conspecific, corelated, corelational, corelative, correlated, correlational, coupled, en rapport, enate, fellow, joined, joint, linking, matchable, much at one, mutual, paired, parallel, pertaining, pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable, referring, relating, relational, relative, similar, simultaneous, sympathetic, twin

• correspond, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, affect, agree, agree with, align, amount to, answer, answer to, ape, appear like, appertain to, apply to, approach, approximate, assent, assimilate to, associate, assort with, balance, be consistent, be guided by, be in cahoots, be in contact, be like, be of one, be redolent of, be uniform with, bear on, bear resemblance, bear upon, belong to, bend, break even, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, check, chime, chime in with, coact, coadunate, coequal, cohere, coincide, collaborate, collimate, collineate, collude, combine, come close, come near, come to, come up to, communicate, communicate with, compare with, complement, comply, comply with, compose, concern, concur, conform, conform with, conjoin, connect, connive, consist with, consort, conspire, contact, cooperate, copy, correct, correspond to, correspond with, counterfeit, deal with, discipline, ditto, dovetail, draw, drop a line, equal, equate, equidistance, establish connection, even, even off, evoke, exchange letters, fall in together, fall in with, favor, fit, fit together, follow, gear to, gee, get to, go, go by, go together, go with, hang together, happen together, harmonize, have connection with, hit, hold together, imitate, interest, interlock, interrogate, intersect, involve, jibe, join, keep pace with, knot, liaise with, line up, link with, lock, look like, maintain connection, make advances, make conform, make contact with, make overtures, make up to, match, match up with, measure up to, meet, mimic, mirror, mold, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, observe, overlap, parallel, parallelize, partake of, pertain to, place parallel to, question, raise, reach, realign, reciprocate, reconcile, rectify, refer to, regard, register, register with, relate to, remind one of, reply to, resemble, respect, respond to, rival, rub off corners, run abreast, run to, savor of, seem like, send a note, settle, shape, simulate, sing in chorus, smack of, sort with, sound like, square, square with, stack up with, stand together, straighten, suggest, suit, synchronize, synergize, take after, tally, tally with, tie, tie in with, touch, touch upon, treat of, unite, use the mails, write, write to, yield

• correspondence, ESP, PP, RD, RFD, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, account, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, affinity, agape, agreement, airmail, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, annals, answer, aping, approach, approximation, assent, assimilation, association, balance, bilateral symmetry, bonds of harmony, book post, brotherly love, cahoots, calm, caritas, catalog, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, chronicle, closeness, co-working, coaction, coequality, coextension, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commerce, communication, communion, community, community of interests, comparability, comparison, compatibility, compliance, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congress, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, connection, consilience, consistency, consonance, consort, conspiracy, constancy, contact, continuity, conventionality, conversation, converse, cooperation, copying, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, dealing, dealings, direct mail, direct-mail selling, documentation, dynamic symmetry, empathy, equability, equality, equanimity, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, esprit, esprit de corps, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, exchange, express, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, finish, flexibility, fourth-class mail, frank, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, halfpenny post, happy family, harmony, history, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, imitation, indistinguishability, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, intersection, inventory, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, junction, junk mail, justice, keeping, kinship, letter post, letters, levelness, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, line, linguistic intercourse, list, love, mail, mail-order selling, mailing list, malleability, memorial, message, mimicking, monolithism, multilateral symmetry, mutuality, nearness, newspaper post, no difference, obedience, observance, oneness, orthodoxy, overlap, par, parallelism, parasitism, parcel post, parity, peace, persistence, pipe roll, pliancy, poise, polarity, post, post day, proportion, proportionality, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, reconcilement, reconciliation, record, recording, register, registered mail, registry, regularity, relativity, relic, remains, reply, resemblance, response, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sameness, saprophytism, scroll, sea mail, seapost, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, shapeliness, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, social intercourse, solidarity, speaking, special delivery, special handling, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, strictness, surface mail, symbiosis, symmetricalness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, table, talking, tally, team spirit, telepathy, timing, token, touch, trace, traditionalism, traffic, trilateral symmetry, truck, two-way communication, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action, unity, unruffledness, vestige

• correspondent, accordant, accused, addressee, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alike, all one, all the same, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogous, analogue, answerable, answering, associate, at one, automatic, balanced, brother, city editor, close copy, close match, coequal, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, cognate, coherent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, columnist, commensurate, communicator, companion, comparable, compatible, complement, complemental, complementary, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenator, congener, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, convertible, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correlate, correlative, corresponding, coterminous, counterpart, cub reporter, defendant, diaskeuast, duplicate, each other, editor, editorial writer, en rapport, equable, equal, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, even, feature editor, fellow, flat, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, harmonious, homogeneous, homologous, identical, image, immutable, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, inharmony, interviewer, invariable, journalist, kindred spirit, leader writer, leg man, letter writer, level, libelee, like, like-minded, likeness, managing editor, match, matching, mate, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, much the same, near duplicate, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, obverse, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, one another, ordered, orderly, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, parallel, paralleling, pen pal, pendant, persistent, picture, positive, pressman, prisoner, proportionate, publicist, reader, reciprocal, reciprocatist, reciprocative, reciprocator, reconcilable, regular, reporter, respondent, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, robotlike, second self, self-consistent, similitude, simulacrum, sister, slotman, smooth, sob sister, soul mate, special correspondent, sports editor, stable, steadfast, steady, stringer, subeditor, such, suchlike, suspect, symbiotic, synchronized, synchronous, synonymous, systematic, tally, tantamount, the like of, the likes of, twin, unanimous, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, war correspondent, writer

• corresponding, accordant, affirmative, agnate, agreeable, agreeing, akin, alike, all one, all the same, amicable, anal, analogous, answerable, answering, at one, attuned, bourgeois, coequal, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, coherent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, commensurate, comparable, compatible, complemental, complementary, compulsive, concordant, concurring, conformable, conformist, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, conventional, convertible, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, correspondent, coterminous, duplicate, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, equal, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, formalistic, frictionless, harmonious, homologous, identical, in accord, in agreement, in concert, in keeping, in line, in rapport, in step, in sync, in synchronization, in tune, inaccordance, inharmony, kosher, like-minded, matching, much the same, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, orthodox, parallel, paralleling, peaceful, pedantic, plastic, positive, precisianistic, proportionate, reciprocal, reciprocative, reconcilable, self-consistent, similar, square, straight, stuffy, symbiotic, sympathetic, synchronized, synchronous, synonymous, tantamount, together, traditionalist, twin, unanimous, understanding, undifferentiated, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, united, uptight

• corridor, access, adit, air lane, air line, air lock, air route, airspace, airway, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, approach, arcade, area, areaway, artery, avenue, belt, breezeway, channel, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, confines, connection, continental shelf, couloir, country, covered way, defile, department, district, division, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, environs, exit, ferry, ford, gallery, gangplank, gangway, ground, hall, hallway, heartland, hinterland, in, ingress, inlet, intake, interchange, intersection, junction, land, lane, loggia, means of access, milieu, neighborhood, offshore rights, opening, outlet, overpass, part, parts, pass, passage, passageway, path, pergola, peristyle, place, portico, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, railroad tunnel, region, salient, section, soil, space, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, traject, trajet, tunnel, twelve-mile limit, underpass, vestibule, vicinage, vicinity, way, way in, zone

• corrigible, ameliorable, amendable, controllable, correctable, curable, domesticable, domitable, emendable, fixable, governable, handleable, improvable, manageable, manipulable, manipulatable, medicable, mendable, perfectible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, restrainable, retrievable, reversible, tamable, untroublesome

• corroborate, affirm, attest, authenticate, back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, certify, circumstantiate, confirm, document, fortify, justify, probate, prove, ratify, reinforce, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, undergird, uphold, validate, verify, warrant

• corrode, abate, ablate, atomize, bate, be eaten away, bite, break up, canker, come apart, consume, consume away, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decline, decompose, decrease, deliquesce, die away, diminish, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dissolve, dive, drop, drop off, dwindle, eat, eat away, eat into, eat out, ebb, erode, etch, fall, fall away, fall off, fall to pieces, fission, gnaw, languish, lessen, let up, melt away, molder, nibble away, oxidize, plummet, plunge, run low, rust, sag, scour, shrink, sink, split, subside, tail off, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away

• corrosion, ablation, atomization, attrition, biodegradability, biodegradation, breakup, consumption, corruption, crumbling, decay, decomposition, decrement, degradability, degradation, deliquescence, depletion, dilapidation, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissipation, dissolution, erosion, exhaustion, incoherence, loss, mildew, mold, oxidation, oxidization, ravages of time, resolution, rust, shrinkage, spoilage, waste, wear, wear and tear

• corrosive, ablative, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, actual cautery, angry, baleful, baneful, biodegradable, biting, bitter, brand, brand iron, branding iron, caustic, cauter, cauterant, cauterizer, cautery, corroding, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cutting, damaging, deadly, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, deleterious, detrimental, dilapidated, disadvantageous, discontented, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, disserviceable, distressing, driving, effective, electrocautery, eroding, erosive, escharotic, feeling evil, forceful, forcible, gutsy, harmful, hot iron, hurtful, imperative, impressive, incisive, injurious, keen, lethal, lunar caustic, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, moldering, mordacious, mordant, moxa, nervous, noisome, noxious, ominous, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, penetrating, pernicious, piercing, poignant, poisonous, potential cautery, powerful, prejudicial, punchy, radium, ravaged, resolvent, ruinous, scatheful, scathing, scorching, sensational, separative, sharp, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, solvent, stabbing, stinging, striking, strong, tart, telling, toxic, trenchant, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vigorous, virulent, vital, withering, worn

• corrugated, broken, bumpy, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, cockled, cockly, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, costate, cragged, craggy, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, cross-grained, crumpled, cut, dadoed, engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grainy, granulated, gravelly, grooved, harsh, homespun, horripilant, incised, inequal, ironbound, irregular, jagged, jaggy, jolty, knitted, knotted, linsey-woolsey, pimply, pitted, pleated, pocky, potholed, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, rabbeted, ragged, rank, ribbed, ridged, rifled, rimpled, rippled, ripply, rockbound, rocky, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rucked, ruffled, rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scratched, serrate, serrated, shagged, shaggy, slit, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stony, striated, sulcate, sulcated, textured, troughed, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled, wrinkled, wrinkly

• corrugation, bezel, broken ground, broken water, chamfer, chase, chink, chop, cockle, corduroy, corduroy road, crack, crankle, cranny, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, cut, dado, engraving, flute, fluting, fold, furrow, gash, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gouge, groove, horripilation, incision, lop, microgroove, plica, pucker, rabbet, ridge, rifling, rimple, ripple, rivel, rough, ruck, rumple, rut, sandpaper, score, scratch, slit, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus, washboard, well-worn groove, wimple, wrinkle

• corrupt, abandoned, abase, aberrant, abroad, abuse, adrift, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alienate, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alloy, amiss, amoral, approach, approachable, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, baneful, bastardize, befoul, benasty, beside the mark, bewitch, blight, brainwash, break down, break up, bribable, bribe, buy, buy off, buyable, canker, cankered, carious, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, conscienceless, contaminate, contaminated, corrupted, corruptible, counterindoctrinate, criminal, crooked, crucify, crumble, crumble into dust, curse, cut, damage, dark, debase, debased, debauch, debauched, decadent, decay, decayed, deceptive, decompose, decomposed, defective, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, degraded, deleterious, delusive, demoralize, denaturalize, denature, deprave, depraved, desecrate, despoil, destroy, detrimental, devalue, deviant, deviational, deviative, devious, dial, dilute, disadvantage, dishonest, dishonorable, disintegrate, disserve, dissolute, distort, distorted, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doctor, doctor up, doom, doubtful, dubious, envenom, errant, erring, erroneous, evasive, evil, face, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, features, felonious, fester, festering, fishy, fix, fixable, flagitious, flawed, fortify, foul, fraudulent, gangrene, gangrened, gangrenous, get at, get into trouble, get to, go bad, go to pieces, gone bad, grease, grease the palm, harass, harm, heretical, heterodox, hex, hurt, ill-got, ill-gotten, illogical, illusory, immoral, impair, indirect, indoctrinate, infamous, infect, injure, insidious, jinx, kisser, lace, low, maltreat, map, menace, mess, mess up, mildew, misadvise, miscreant, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misteach, mistreat, misuse, mold, molder, molest, morally polluted, mortified, mortify, mug, mystify, nasty, necrose, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, not kosher, not right, not true, noxious, obfuscate, oblique, obscure, off, off the track, on the pad, on the take, out, outrage, pan, pay off, peccant, pernicious, persecute, perverse, pervert, perverted, phiz, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, polluted, prejudice, profligate, prostitute, purchasable, purchase, puss, putrefied, putrefy, putresce, putrescent, putrid, questionable, rankle, ravage, ravish, reach, reindoctrinate, reprobate, rot, rotten, rotting, ruin, savage, scathe, self-contradictory, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, smirch, soil, sphacelate, sphacelated, spike, spoil, spoiled, stain, steeped in iniquity, straying, suborn, subvert, subverted, sully, suppurate, suppurating, suppurative, suspicious, taint, tainted, take care of, tamper with, tarnish, threaten, tickle the palm, torment, torture, tricky, turn, twist, ulcerate, ulcerated, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfactual, unorthodox, unprincipled, unproved, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, untrue, untrustworthy, venal, vice-corrupted, vicious, villainous, violate, visage, vitiate, vitiated, vulgarize, warp, warped, water, water down, wicked, wide, win away, without remorse, without shame, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

• corruptible, approachable, bribable, brittle, buyable, capricious, changeable, corrupt, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fixable, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, hireling, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, mercenary, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, on the pad, on the take, passing, perishable, purchasable, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, venal, volatile

• corrupting, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, eroding, erosive, harmful, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent

• corruption, abandon, abandonment, abjection, abomination, abuse of terms, acrostic, adulteration, alienation, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, antiphrasis, atrocity, bad, bane, barbarism, bastardizing, befouling, befoulment, biodegradability, biodegradation, blight, brainwashing, breakup, bribery, bribery and corruption, bribing, cacoepy, cacology, calembour, carrion, college of Laputa, colloquialism, contamination, corrosion, corruptedness, corruptness, counterindoctrination, criminality, crookedness, crying evil, cutting, damage, dandruff, debasement, decadence, decadency, decay, decomposition, defilement, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradability, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, despoliation, destruction, detriment, deviousness, dilapidation, dilution, dishonesty, dishonor, disintegration, disorganization, dissoluteness, dissolution, doctoring, envenoming, equivocality, equivoque, evasiveness, evil, excrement, false coloring, feloniousness, festering, filth, fortifying, foul matter, fouling, fraudulence, fraudulency, furfur, gammacism, gangrene, graft, grievance, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, improbity, impropriety, indirection, indoctrination, infection, infelicity, injury, jeu de mots, lacing, lambdacism, localism, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, mess, metagram, mildew, mischief, misconstruction, misdirection, misguidance, misinformation, misinstruction, misinterpretation, misknowledge, misleading, mispronunciation, misrepresentation, missaying, misspeaking, misteaching, misusage, misuse, mold, moral pollution, moral turpitude, muck, mucus, mystification, mytacism, obfuscation, obscenity, obscurantism, obscuration, ordure, outrage, oxidation, oxidization, palindrome, paralambdacism, pararhotacism, paronomasia, perversion, play on words, poison, poisoning, pollution, profligacy, prostitution, pun, punning, pus, putrid matter, reindoctrination, reprobacy, resolution, rhotacism, rot, rottenness, rust, scurf, scuz, shadiness, shiftiness, slang, slanting, slime, slipperiness, smut, snot, solecism, sophistry, sordes, spiking, spoilage, spoonerism, straining, subornation, subversion, suppuration, taboo word, the worst, torturing, toxin, trickiness, turpitude, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, ungrammaticism, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, venom, vexation, vitiation, vulgarism, watering, woe, wordplay, wrong

• corsage, blouse, bodice, boughpot, bouquet, boutonniere, buttonhole, chaplet, dickey, festoon, flower arrangement, garland, lei, linen, nosegay, posy, shift, shirt, spray, waist, wreath

• corset, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, corselet, crook, crutch, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, prop, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stays, stick, stiffener, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder, walking stick

• cortege, attendance, attendant, body of retainers, burial, burial at sea, burying, caravan, cavalcade, cohort, column, court, dead march, deep six, dirge, dress parade, entourage, flyover, follower, following, funeral, funeral procession, last post, line, march past, motorcade, muffled drum, mule train, pack train, parade, parasite, pomp, procession, promenade, retinue, review, rout, satellite, skimmington, stream, string, suite, taps, train

• cortex, armature, armor, armor plate, bark, body armor, border, buckler, bulletproof vest, chain armor, chain mail, chitin, circumference, coat of mail, cork, covering, crust, elytron, envelope, epicarp, epidermis, episperm, exterior, external, facade, face, facet, fringe, front, habergeon, harness, hauberk, integument, lineaments, lorica, lorication, mail, needles, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outside, panoply, peel, peeling, pericarp, periphery, phellum, plate, plate armor, protective covering, rind, scute, scutum, shell, shield, skin, spines, suit of armor, superficies, superstratum, surface, test, testa, thick skin, top

• cosmetics, base, clown white, cold cream, compact, drugstore complexion, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, foundation, foundation cream, giftware, greasepaint, hand cream, hand lotion, knickknacks, lip rouge, lipstick, makeup, mascara, mudpack, nail polish, notions, novelties, odds and ends, paint, powder, powder puff, puff, rouge, sundries, talcum, talcum powder, toilet goods, toiletries, vanishing cream, vanity case, war paint

• cosmic, Gargantuan, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmogonal, cosmogonic, cosmologic, enormous, extensive, galactic, gigantic, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, king-size, large, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, universal, vast, voluminous, weighty

• cosmical, Gargantuan, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cosmogonal, cosmogonic, cosmologic, enormous, extensive, galactic, gigantic, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, king-size, large, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, universal, vast, voluminous, weighty

• cosmology, aesthetics, astrogony, axiology, big bang theory, casuistry, continuous creation theory, cosmic evolution, cosmic philosophy, cosmism, cosmogony, cosmography, epistemology, ethics, expanding universe theory, first philosophy, gnosiology, logic, mental philosophy, metaphysics, moral philosophy, nebular hypothesis, ontology, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, pulsating universe theory, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, sophistry, stellar cosmogony, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory

• cosmopolitan, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, blase, braw, broad, broad-gauged, broad-minded, catholic, chic, citizen, citizen by adoption, city slicker, civic, civil, classy, clothes-conscious, common, communal, cosmopolite, country-wide, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ecumenic, ecumenical, ecumenistic, elegant, experienced, exquisite, galactic, general, genteel, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, international, jaunty, knowing, man of experience, man-about-town, mature, matured, metic, national, natty, naturalized citizen, neat, nifty, nobby, nondenominational, noninsular, nonnative citizen, nonsectarian, not born yesterday, old, planetary, posh, practiced, public, recherche, ripe, ripened, ritzy, sagacious, seasoned, sharp, sleek, slicker, smart, smug, snazzy, social, societal, soigne, soignee, sophisticate, sophisticated, spacious of mind, spiffy, spruce, state, style-conscious, subject, supranational, swank, swanky, swell, total, traveled, tricksy, tried, tried and true, trig, trim, unbigoted, unfanatical, unhidebound, universal, unparochial, unprovincial, veteran, well-dressed, well-groomed, well-traveled, wide, wide-minded, world-wide, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• cosmos, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, all, all being, all creation, allness, created nature, created universe, creation, everything that is, expanding universe, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature, omneity, plenum, pulsating universe, sidereal universe, steady-state universe, sum of things, system, totality, totality of being, universe, whole wide world, wide world, world, world without end

• cosset, care for, caress, cater to, cherish, cocker, coddle, cradle, cultivate, dandle, dry-nurse, favor, feed, fondle, foster, give way to, gratify, humor, indulge, lavish care on, mollycoddle, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, oblige, pamper, pat, pet, please, satisfy, spoil, spoon-feed, suckle, sustain, wet-nurse, yield to

• cost of living, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charges, consumer price index, cost, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, direct costs, disbursals, distributed costs, expense, expense account, expenses, general expenses, indirect costs, labor costs, liabilities, material costs, operating costs, operating expense, overhead, prime cost, real wages, replacement cost, standard of comfort, standard of life, standard of living, swindle sheet, take-home, take-home pay, unit cost

• cost, afford, amount, amount to, bereavement, bring, bring in, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, come to, come up to, cost of living, cost out, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disburse, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expend, expenditure, expense, expense account, expenses, fetch, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, fork out, general expenses, get, go through, incur costs, indirect costs, injury, invest, labor costs, lay out, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, mount up to, open the purse, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, overhead, pay, pay out, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, put out, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, run into, run through, run to, sacrifice, schedule, score, sell for, set one back, shell out, sink money in, spend, splurge, spoliation, squander, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, tariff, throw money around, total loss, total up to, unit cost

• costume designer, MC, auteur, ballyhoo man, barker, callboy, costumer, costumier, couturier, designer, director, dress designer, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, furniture designer, impresario, makeup man, master of ceremonies, playreader, producer, prompter, ringmaster, rug designer, scenewright, set designer, showman, spieler, stage director, stage manager, styler, stylist, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, usher, usherer, usherette

• costume party, Kaffeeklatsch, ball, blowout, cocktail party, coffee klatch, dinner, dinner party, donation party, entertainment, festivity, garden party, hen party, house party, house-raising, housewarming, lawn party, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, party, shindig, shindy, shower, smoker, stag, stag party, surprise party

• costume, accouter, apparel, array, attire, ballet skirt, bedizenment, bib and tucker, blackface, buskin, cap and bells, caparison, clothes, clothing, clown white, disguise, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, equip, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fit, fit out, frock, garb, garments, gear, getup, greasepaint, guise, habiliment, habit, investiture, investment, kit, linen, livery, makeup, masquerade, motley, outfit, practical piece, prop, property, rags, raiment, rig, rig out, rig up, robes, sock, sportswear, style, suit, theatrical makeup, threads, tights, togs, toilette, trim, turn out, tutu, uniform, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel

• cot, Colonial bed, Hollywood bed, bassinet, bed-davenport, berth, blockhouse, box, bungalow, bunk, bunk bed, cabin, camp bed, chalet, cote, cottage, cradle, crib, day bed, door bed, double bed, double bunk, duplex bed, feather bed, fold-away bed, four-poster, hammock, hospital bed, king-size bed, lodge, log cabin, love nest, lower berth, pallet, panel bed, pied-a-terre, pipe berth, poster bed, quarter berth, queen-size bed, roll-away bed, single bed, snuggery, sofa-bed, tester bed, three-quarter bed, truckle bed, trundle bed

• coterie, age group, band, battalion, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, cast, cell, charmed circle, circle, clan, clique, closed circle, cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, elite, elite group, faction, fleet, gang, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, junta, junto, mob, movement, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, regiment, ring, salon, set, squad, stable, string, team, tribe, troop, troupe, we-group, wing

• coterminous, accompanying, adjacent, adjoining, agreeing, bordering, coequal, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, congruent, connecting, contemporaneous, contemporary, conterminous, contiguous, correspondent, corresponding, end to end, endways, endwise, equal, equivalent, face to face, immediate, isochronal, isochronous, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, neighbor, neighboring, next, simultaneous, synonymous, unison, unisonous

• cottage, Aldine, Arabesque, Byzantine, Canevari, Etruscan, Grolier, Harleian, Jansenist, Maioli, Roxburgh, blockhouse, box, bungalow, cabin, chalet, cot, cote, dentelle, fanfare, hut, lodge, log cabin, love nest, pied-a-terre, pointille, shack, shanty, snuggery

• cotton belt, agricultural region, arable land, black belt, citrus belt, corn belt, countryside, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fruit belt, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, highlands, lowlands, meadows and pastures, moors, plains, prairies, province, provinces, rural district, rustic region, steppes, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, uplands, veld, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

• cotton to, accord, agree, agree with, associate with, be acquainted with, be friends, be inseparable, be smitten, become attached to, chime in with, correspond, empathize, fall for, fall in love, fall in with, fraternize with, get along, get along with, get on with, harmonize, harmonize with, hit it off, hobnob with, identify with, interchange, know, reciprocate, respond to, sing in chorus, sympathize, take to, understand one another

• cotton, Ace bandage, Aralac, Avisco, Axminster, Band-Aid, Celanese, Chemstrand, Dacron, Dynel, Georgette, Harris Tweed, Lastex, Leatherette, Manila, Orlon, Qiana, Revolite, Terylene, Ultrasuede, Velon, Vicara, acetate, acetate rayon, adhesive tape, alpaca, angora, application, arras, astrakhan, baize, band, bandage, bandaging, bast, batik, binder, blanketing, brace, broadcloth, broadloom, brocade, bunting, calico, cambric, canvas, carpeting, cashmere, cast, castor, cataplasm, cheesecloth, chiffon, chinchilla, chintz, coating, coir, compress, cord, corduroy, court plaster, crash, cravat, crepe, crepe de chine, cretonne, crinoline, damask, denim, doeskin, dressing, drill, drilling, drugget, duck, duffel, elastic bandage, epithem, felt, flannel, flannelette, flax, fleece, floss, foulard, four-tailed bandage, frieze, fustian, gauze, gingham, gossamer, grenadine, grogram, grosgrain, gunny, haircloth, hemp, herringbone, hessian, homespun, hop sacking, horsehair, huck, huckaback, jersey, jute, kapok, lame, lawn, linen, linoleum, linsey-woolsey, lint, lisle, list, llama hair, loden, longcloth, luster, mackinaw, mackintosh, madras, maline, manta, mantua, marquisette, mat, matting, melton, merino, messaline, mohair, moire, moleskin, mousseline de soie, murrey, muslin, nainsook, nankeen, near-silk, net, netting, nylon, oakum, oil silk, oilcloth, organdy, organza, paisley, panne, panne velvet, pepper-and-salt, percale, pique, plaid, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, plush, polyester, pongee, poplin, poultice, print, quilting, radium, raffia, rayon, rayon casheen, rep, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, rugging, russet, sackcloth, sacking, sailcloth, sarcenet, sateen, satin, say, seersucker, serge, shalloon, shantung, sharkskin, sheers, sheeting, shoddy, shot silk, silk, sisal, sling, spandex, splint, sponge, spun rayon, stamin, stammel, stockinette, stuff, stupe, suede, swansdown, tabaret, tabby, taffeta, taffety, tampon, tape, tapestry, tarpaulin, tartan, tent, terry cloth, tick, ticking, tourniquet, triangular bandage, tricotine, tulle, tussah, tussore, tweed, twill, veiling, velours, velure, velvet, velveteen, voile, wash-and-wear fabric, watered fabric, webbing, wool, worsted, yarn, zephyr

• couch, analysis, bear down, bed, bed down, bedstead, bring low, bunk, burrow, cave, conceive, couch in terms, covert, crawl, creep, crouch, curl up, debase, den, depress, depth interview, depth psychology, detrude, divan, doss, downbear, dream analysis, dream symbolism, earth, embed, embody in words, express, form, formularize, formulate, frame, give expression to, give words to, go to bed, go to rest, group analysis, grovel, gumshoe, gurney, haul down, hole, hug the earth, indent, interpretation of dreams, kip, lair, lay wait, let down, lie down, lie in wait, lie low, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie under, litter, lodge, loll, lounge, lower, lurk, mew, nightwalk, paragraph, phrase, present, press down, prone, prostrate, prowl, psychanalysis, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic method, psychoanalytic therapy, psychognosis, psychognosy, psychology of depths, pull down, push down, pussyfoot, put, put in words, recline, reduce, repose, rest, rhetorize, run, set out, settee, settle, settle to rest, shadow, sink, skulk, slink, sneak, snug down, sofa, sprawl, squat, stalk, state, steal, stretcher, style, supinate, take down, take it easy, take life easy, tete-a-tete, the couch, the hay, the sack, thrust down, tiptoe, tunnel, underlie, vis-a-vis, word

• couchant, accumbent, couche, crawling, crouched, debased, decumbent, depressed, draped, flat, groveling, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lying, neap, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, runty, short, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squat, squatty, stooped, stumpy, supine, unelevated

• cough, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, blow, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, huff, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, respiration, respire, scuba, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, sternutation, stertor, suspiration, wheeze, wind

• council, Areopagus, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, advisory council, alliance, assemblage, assemblee, assembly, assignation, association, at home, audience, axis, ball, band, bargaining, bargaining session, bloc, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, body, brawl, cabinet, cadre, camarilla, caucus, coalition, college, colloquium, combination, combine, commission, committee, common market, conclave, concourse, confab, confabulation, confederacy, confederation, conference, confrontation, congregation, congress, consistory, consultation, consumer cooperative, conventicle, convention, convocation, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, council fire, council of state, council of war, credit union, curia, customs union, dance, date, diet, directorate, directors, directory, discussion, divan, economic community, eisteddfod, exchange of views, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, federation, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, free trade area, gang, gathering, get-together, governing board, governing body, group, grouping, high-level talk, housewarming, huddle, infrastructure, inquisition, interchange of views, interlocking directorate, interview, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, kitchen cabinet, league, levee, machine, management, meet, meeting, ministry, mob, negotiations, news conference, palaver, panel, parley, partnership, party, plenum, political machine, pourparler, powwow, press conference, privy council, prom, quorum, rally, reception, rendezvous, ring, seance, session, shadow cabinet, shindig, sit-in, sitting, society, soiree, steering committee, summit, summit conference, summitry, symposium, synod, the Inquisition, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, top brass, tribunal, turnout, union

• councilman, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, archon, assemblyman, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, chosen freeholder, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, congressman, congresswoman, councillor, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, floor leader, headman, induna, lawgiver, lawmaker, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, majority leader, mayor, minister, minister of state, minority leader, party whip, portreeve, reeve, representative, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, senator, solon, state senator, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden, whip

• counsel, Dutch uncle, Polonius, admonisher, admonition, advice, advise, advise with, advisement, adviser, advising, advisor, advocacy, advocate, agent, aim, ambition, amicus curiae, animus, aspiration, attorney, attorney-at-law, backseat driver, bar, bargain, barrister, barrister-at-law, brief, briefing, brooding, buttinsky, call in, caution, caveat, coach, collogue, compare notes, confer, confer with, confidant, consideration, consult, consult with, consultant, consultation, contemplation, council, counselor, counselor-at-law, deliberate, deliberation, deputy, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, direct, direction, discuss, discuss with, discussion, effect, exchange observations, exchange views, exhortation, expert, expostulation, fixed purpose, friend at court, function, guidance, guide, have conversations, hold conference, hortation, idea, instruct, instruction, instructor, intendment, intent, intention, intercessor, judgement, kibitz, kibitzer, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legal profession, legalist, lucubration, meaning, meddle, meddler, meditation, mentor, mind, monition, monitor, motive, mouthpiece, musing, negotiate, nestor, nisus, opinion, orienter, palaver, parley, plan, pleader, pleading, point, pondering, powwow, preceptist, prescribe, proctor, procurator, project, proposal, propose, prospectus, purpose, put heads together, reason with, recommend, recommendation, refer to, reflection, remonstrance, representation, resolution, resolve, revolving, rumination, sake, sea lawyer, self-styled lawyer, sit down together, sit down with, solicitor, speculation, striving, study, submit, suggest, suggestion, take counsel, take up with, talk over, teacher, thought, view, warning, weighing, will

• counseling, Arica movement, Erhard Seminars Training, New Consciousness, Pentothal interview, SAT, T-group, assertiveness training, behavior modification, behavior therapy, bioenergetics, biofeedback, confrontation therapy, conjoint therapy, consciousness raising, directive therapy, encounter therapy, est, family training, feminist therapy, gestalt therapy, group psychotherapy, group relations training, group sensitivity training, group therapy, humanistic therapy, hypnoanalysis, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotism, marathon, marriage encounter, mind cure, narcoanalysis, narcohypnosis, narcosynthesis, narcotherapy, nondirective therapy, occupational therapy, pastoral counseling, play therapy, primal therapy, prolonged narcosis, psychodrama, psychological counseling, psychosurgery, psychosynthesis, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy, radical therapy, rational-emotive therapy, reality therapy, recreational therapy, regression therapy, release therapy, scream therapy, sensitivity training, sensory awareness training, sleep treatment, supportive therapy, training group, transactional analysis, transcendental meditation, transpersonal therapy, vocational therapy

• counselor, Dutch uncle, Polonius, admonisher, adviser, advocate, agent, amicus curiae, attorney, attorney-at-law, backseat driver, barrister, barrister-at-law, buttinsky, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor-at-law, deputy, expert, friend at court, guide, instructor, intercessor, kibitzer, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, meddler, mentor, monitor, mouthpiece, nestor, orienter, pleader, preceptist, proctor, procurator, sea lawyer, self-styled lawyer, solicitor, teacher

• count on, aspire to, bank on, bargain for, bet on, calculate on, confide, depend on, desire, expect, feel confident, figure on, forestall, gamble on, harbor the hope, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, lean on, lean upon, live in hopes, look for, look forward to, look out for, look to, nurture the hope, place reliance on, plan on, presume, reckon on, rely on, rely upon, repose on, rest assured, rest on, swear by, trust, trust to, watch out for

• count out, ban, bar, bar out, bate, blockade, cut off, debar, eliminate, embargo, except, exclude, freeze out, ignore, keep out, leave out, lock out, omit, ostracize, pass over, preclude, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, rule out, send to Coventry, shut out, suspend, taboo

• count, Brahman, a reckoning of, account, account of, accounts, accusal, accusation, accusing, add up, adjudge, adjudicate, admit, aggregate, allegation, allegement, allow, amount, amount to something, apportion, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, arraignment, article, aspect, assimilate, bank on, baron, baronet, batch, be featured, be influential, be judicious, be persuasive, be prominent, be regarded, be somebody, be something, be thought of, beat, beat a tattoo, beat the drum, beat time, bill of particulars, blame, blue blood, body count, box score, bringing of charges, bringing to book, budget, bunch, calculate, call off, call over, call the roll, capitulation, carry weight, case, cast, census, charge, check of, chunk, clutch, complaint, complete, comprehend, comprise, compute, consider, contain, count in, count of, count on, count the beats, count up, cover, cut ice, cut some ice, daimio, datum, deal, decrease, deem, delation, denouncement, denunciation, depend on, detail, difference, divide, dose, drum, duke, earl, election returns, element, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enumerate, envisage, esquire, esteem, exercise judgment, express an opinion, facet, fact, factor, figure on, figure out, figure up, fill, fill in, fill out, fix, foliate, form an opinion, gentleman, get top billing, gob, grand duke, grandee, group, have an in, have full play, have influence, have personality, have pull, head count, heap, hidalgo, hold, hunk, impeachment, implication, import, imputation, incidental, include, incorporate, increase, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, instance, inventory, item, judge, keep time, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, landslide, large amount, lawsuit, laying of charges, look on, look upon, lord, lordling, lot, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, matter, measure, mess, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, noble, nobleman, nose count, number, number among, numerate, occupy, official count, optimate, pack, page, paginate, palsgrave, parcel, part, particular, patrician, peer, pine, plaint, play drum, point, poll, portion, pound, presume, product, prosecution, quantify, quantity, quantize, rank, rate, ration, recapitulation, receive, reckon, reckon among, reckon in, reckon on, reckon with, reckoning, recount, recounting, reduce, regard, rehearsal, rely on, rely upon, repertory, reproach, respect, returns, ruffle, run over, score, seigneur, seignior, signify, silk-stocking, small amount, sound a tattoo, squire, stand out, star, statement, suit, sum, summary, summation, summing, summing up, suppose, swell, tabs of, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, tale, tally, tally of, tap, taxing, tell, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, thing, think of, thoroughbred, thrum, thump, tidal wave, tom-tom, total, track of, true bill, trust, unspoken accusation, upper-cruster, veiled accusation, viscount, waldgrave, weigh, whole, x number

• countenance, Buddha-like composure, OK, Oriental calm, abet, abetment, accept, acceptance, adherence, admiration, admire, advocacy, advocate, aegis, aid and abet, air, applaud, approbation, approval, approve, approve of, ask for, auspices, authority, authorization, back, backing, bear, bear with, bearing, bless, blessing, blink at, brook, brow, calm disposition, calm of mind, calmness, care, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, certification, champion, championship, charity, clearance, color, comfort, commend, complexion, composure, condone, connive at, cool, coolheadedness, coolness, demeanor, dial, easy mind, embolden, empowerment, enabling, encourage, encouragement, endorse, endorsement, endure, enfranchisement, entitlement, esteem, face, facial appearance, facies, favor, favorable vote, feature, features, feed, fiat, foster, fosterage, garb, give encouragement, go for, goodwill, grin and abide, guidance, guise, have, hear of, hearten, hold with, icy calm, imperturbation, indisturbance, indulge, interest, invite, keep in countenance, kisser, let go by, let pass, lineaments, lines, looks, map, mental composure, mien, mug, mush, nod, nourish, nurture, obey, overlook, pan, patronage, peace of mind, peacefulness, philosophic composure, philosophicalness, philosophy, phiz, physiognomy, placidity, port, posture, presence, puss, put up with, quiet, quiet mind, quietude, ratification, respect, rise above, sanction, sangfroid, seal of approval, seconding, serenity, shine upon, shrug, shrug it off, smile upon, soothingness, sponsorship, stamp of approval, stance, stand for, stomach, submit to, subscribe, suffer, support, sympathy, take kindly to, think well of, tolerate, traits, tranquillity, turn, tutelage, unruffledness, uphold, view with favor, visage, voice, vote, warrant, warranty, wink at, yea, yea vote, yield to

• counter culture, agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, diversity, dropping out, minority opinion, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, opposition, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, secession, underground, variance, withdrawal

• counter to, adverse to, against, antagonistically, at cross-purposes with, athwart, con, contra, contrary to, counteractively, dead against, in conflict with, in contempt of, in defiance of, in disagreement with, in opposition to, opposed to, opposingly, versus, vis-a-vis

• counter, Geiger counter, Wilson chamber, X-ray spectrograph, X-ray spectrometer, abjure, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, advocate, against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, agree to disagree, alien, allege in support, alpha pulse analyzer, ambo, answer, antagonistic, antagonize, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodean, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antithetical, antonym, antonymous, argue for, ascender, assert, assert the contrary, at cross-purposes, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at issue, at odds, at opposite extremes, at variance, at war with, athwart, atom counter, atom-tagger, back, back to back, backward, baffle, baggage check, balancing, balk, bar, bastard type, be antipathetic, be at cross-purposes, be inimical, be opposed to, beard, beat against, beat off, belie, belly, bench, bevel, black letter, blast, block, board, body, boomerang, boron counter, brave, break, break off, buffet, cap, capital, case, challenge, champion, check, checkmate, chip, circumvent, clash, clashing, cloud chamber, collide, come back at, comeback, compensating, competitive, con, conflict, conflict with, conflicting, confound, confront, confronting, confute, contend for, contest, contra, contradict, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapose, contrapositive, contrarious, contrariwise, contrary, contrast with, contrasted, contrasting, contravene, controvert, converse, cosmic ray counter, counteract, counteractive, counterattack, counterbalance, counterbalancing, counterblast, counterblow, countercheck, countermand, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpoised, counterpole, counterpose, counterstroke, counterterm, countervail, countervailing, counterwork, counting tube, coupon, cross, dash, dead against, defeat, defend, defy, deny, descender, desk, destroy, detrimental, differ, different, difficult, disaccord, disaccordant, disaffirm, disagree, disallow, disavow, disc, disclaim, discomfit, disconcert, discordant, discountenance, discrepant, dish, disown, disparate, disprove, dispute, disrupt, dissent, dissentient, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, drive back, electronic counter, elude, em, en, enemy, escritoire, espouse, exchange, expansion chamber, eyeball to eyeball, eyeball-to-eyeball, face, face to face, fantail, fat-faced type, feet, fend, fend off, flummox, foil, font, forswear, fractious, frustrate, gainsay, gamma ray counter, get back at, give and take, give in exchange, give in return, give-and-take, go against, go counter to, groove, hard, hardly like, harmful, hat check, heavy particle counter, heel, hinder, hindering, hit back at, hold at bay, hold off, hostile, impeding, impugn, in confrontation, in hostile array, in opposition, inconsistent, inimical, interchange, interfere with, inverse, ion counter, ionization chamber, ionizing event, italic, jangle, jar, join issue upon, join the opposition, jostle, just opposite, juxtapose in opposition, keep at bay, keep off, knock the chocks, lectern, letter, ligature, lock horns, logotype, lower case, maintain, majuscule, make a plea, marker, match, meet head-on, militate against, minuscule, miserable, mismatch, mismate, negate, negative, nick, noncooperative, nonplus, nonuniform, nose to nose, not abide, not accept, not admit, not easy, notions counter, nullify, object, obstinate, obstruct, obstructive, obverse, odd, off, offbeat, offset, opponent, oppose, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, oppositional, oppositive, oppugn, oppugnant, out, overthwart, parry, particle counter, perplex, perverse, pi, pica, piece, pit, play at cross-purposes, plead for, point, polar, poles apart, poop, print, protest, push back, pushcart, put back, radiodetector, rebuff, rebut, recalcitrant, recant, reciprocate, reciprocation, recoil, reflex, refractory, refuse to admit, refute, renounce, repel, reply, repudiate, repugnant, repulse, resist, respond, retaliate, retaliation, retort, retract, return, reverse, reversed, revoke, rigorous, riposte, rival, roman, rudderpost, ruin, run against, run counter to, sabotage, sans serif, say in defense, scarcely like, scotch, scrip, script, secretaire, secretary, set off, setoff, shank, shopboard, shoulder, showcase, sinister, slug, small cap, small capital, speak for, speak up for, spike, spoil, squared off, stamp, stand, stand up for, stave off, stem, stern, stick up for, stop, stressful, strike back, stump, support, sustain, swim upstream, table, tag, tail end, take back, take issue with, the contrary, the other side, thwart, ticket, token, traverse, troublesome, troublous, trying, tube counter, turn aside, turned around, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, unalike, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unidentical, unlike, unmatched, unpropitious, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, untoward, up in arms, uphold, upper case, upset, urge reasons for, vary, vie, vis-a-vis, vote against, ward off, with crossed bayonets, withstand, work against, workbench, wretched, writing table, wrong-way, wrong-way around

• counteract, annul, antagonize, baffle, balance, balk, be antipathetic, be at cross-purposes, be inimical, be opposed to, beat against, blast, brave, bump heads, cancel, cancel out, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, clash, collide, conflict, conflict with, confound, confront, confute, contend, contradict, contrapose, contraposit, contrast, contrast with, contravene, controvert, correct, counter, counterattack, counterbalance, countercheck, countermand, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, counterweigh, counterwork, cross, dash, defeat, defy, destroy, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disrupt, elude, equiponderate, face, fix, flummox, foil, front, frustrate, go against, go counter to, interfere with, join the opposition, juxtapose in opposition, knock the chocks, lie opposite, lock horns, match, meet head-on, militate against, mitigate, negate, negative, neutralize, nonplus, not abide, nullify, offset, oppose, oppugn, perplex, play at cross-purposes, polarize, pose against, protest, put in opposition, rectify, redress, resist, right, ruin, run against, run counter to, sabotage, scotch, set off, set over against, spike, spoil, square, square up, stand opposed, stand opposite, stonewall, stump, subtend, swim upstream, take issue with, thwart, traverse, upset, vote against, withstand, work against

• counteraction, amends, atonement, balancing, bucking, challenge, combative reaction, commutation, compensation, complaint, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, counterbalancing, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defiance, demur, denial, dispute, dissent, dissentience, expiation, fractiousness, head wind, impugnation, impugnment, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, negation, negativism, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, offsetting, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, passive resistance, protest, reaction, rebuff, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recompense, rectification, redress, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, reparation, repayment, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restitution, retaliation, revenge, revolt, satisfaction, stand, standing against, substitution, traversal, uncooperativeness, undercurrent, withstanding

• counterattack, aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, backfire, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, comeback, counterblast, counterblow, counterfire, counterinsurgency, countermeasure, counteroffensive, counterrevolution, counterstep, counterstroke, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, defense, descent on, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, head-on attack, infiltration, lightning attack, lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, panzer warfare, push, retort, run against, run at, rush, sally, shock tactics, sortie, strike, unprovoked assault

• counterbalance, accommodate, adjust, amend, annul, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, atone for, balance, ballast, be at cross-purposes, be heavy, be opposed to, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, carry weight, clash, come to nothing, compensate, conflict, conflict with, consideration, contra, contradict, contrapose, contrast with, contravene, controvert, converse, coordinate, correct, counter, counteract, counterblast, countercheck, countercurrent, counterforce, counterinfluence, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpole, counterpose, counterpressure, counterterm, countervail, counterweigh, counterweight, counterwork, crosscurrent, equalize, equate, equipoise, equiponderate, equivalent, even, even up, firm, firm up, fit, foil, foul wind, freeze, frustrate, give-and-take, have weight, head wind, heft, hold, hold the scales, immobilize, integrate, invalidate, inverse, juxtapose in opposition, keep, level, lie heavy, make up, makeweight, nail down, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, nullify, obverse, offset, oppose, opposite, opposite number, oppugn, outweigh, pin down, play at cross-purposes, poise, proportion, quid pro quo, rectify, redeem, retain, reverse, run counter to, set off, setoff, something of value, square, square up, stabilitate, stabilize, steady, stick, strike a balance, stultify, the contrary, the other side, thwart, tip the scales, tit for tat, transfix, undercurrent, undo, vis-a-vis, vitiate, void, weigh, weigh heavy, weigh in, weigh out, weight

• counterclaim, confutation, confute, contraremonstrance, counteraccusation, counterblast, countercharge, counterdemand, counterreply, counterstatement, defense, make a rebuttal, rebut, rebuttal, rebutter, refutation, refute, rejoin, rejoinder, replication, surrebut, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoin, surrejoinder

• counterclockwise, a rebours, a reculons, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, around, ass-backwards, astern, away, back, backward, backwards, clockwise, earthward, fro, head over heels, heavenward, heels over head, hindward, hindwards, homeward, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in circles, in reverse, landward, larboard, leeward, left, left-hand, left-wing, left-wingish, leftward, levorotatory, liberal, near, nigh, port, radical, rearward, rearwards, retrad, rightward, round, round about, round and round, seaward, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, widdershins, windward

• counterespionage, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterintelligence, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence work, military intelligence, observation, secret police, secret service, shadowing, spying, stakeout, surveillance, tailing, trailing, wiretap, wiretapping

• counterfeit, act, act a part, act like, affect, affected, agent, alike, alternate, alternative, analogy, ape, aped, apocryphal, appear like, approach, approximate, artificial, assume, assumed, backup, bad check, bad money, base coin, bastard, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bluff, bogus, bogus money, borrow, bring to mind, brummagem, call to mind, call up, certified copy, change, changeling, cheat, chorus, clinquant, coin, colorable, colored, come close, come near, compare with, comparison, concoct, consimilar, cook up, copied, copy, correspond, counterfeit money, counterfeited, cover up, crib, deceit, deception, deceptive, delusive, delusory, deputy, dissemble, dissimulate, distorted, ditto, do, do a bit, do like, double, dramatize, dressed up, dummy, echo, ectype, embellished, embroidered, equal, equivalent, ersatz, evoke, exchange, fabricate, facsimile, factitious, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, faked, fakement, false, false money, falsified, falsify, fantasize, favor, favoring, feign, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fill-in, follow, following, forge, forged, forgery, four-flush, frame-up, fraud, fraudulent, fudge, gammon, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter, go like, green goods, gyp, hatch, histrionize, hoax, hoke, hoke up, hokey, homogeneous, humbug, icon, identical, illegitimate, image, imitate, imitated, imitation, impostor, insincere, invent, junk, junky, kite, let on, let on like, like, likeness, locum tenens, look like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, make out like, make up, make-believe, makeshift, man-made, manufacture, match, meretricious, metaphor, metonymy, mimic, mimicked, mint, mirror, misleading, mock, near, nearly reproduce, nearly reproduced, next best thing, not tell apart, not unlike, overact, parallel, partake of, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, personnel, perverted, phony, picture, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck, plagiarize, plagiarized, play, play a part, play a scene, play possum, playact, portrait, pretend, pretended, profess, provisional, proxy, pseudo, put on, put on airs, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queer, reecho, reflect, relief, remind one of, repeat, replacement, representation, representative, reproduce, reproduction, resemblance, resemble, resembling, reserve, reserves, ringer, rip-off, rubber check, savor of, second string, secondary, seem like, self-styled, sell, semblance, sham, shoddy, shove the queer, sign, similar, similitude, simulacrum, simulate, simulated, smack of, smacking of, snide, so-called, soi-disant, something like, sound like, spare, spares, spurious, stack up with, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, suggest, suggestive of, superseder, supplanter, supposititious, surrogate, swindle, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic, take after, temporary, tentative, third string, tin, tinsel, titivated, token, trump up, tug the heartstrings, twisted, unauthentic, understudy, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, utility, utility player, utter, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, warped, wear, whited sepulcher

• counterfeiter, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, actor, ape, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer, coin-clipper, coiner, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, cuckoo, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, echo, echoer, echoist, enchanter, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger, gay deceiver, hoaxer, hypnotizer, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, leg-puller, mesmerizer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, minter, mintmaster, misleader, mocker, mockingbird, moneyer, monkey, parrot, phony, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, practical joker, ragger, role-player, seducer, sheep, simulator, spoofer, tease, teaser

• counterfeiting, coinage, coining, copying, emulation, fakery, following, forgery, hit-off, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, mimesis, mintage, mirroring, onomatopoeia, parody, plagiarism, plagiary, repetition, simulation, stamping, striking, takeoff

• counterintelligence, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence bureau, intelligence service, intelligence work, military intelligence, naval intelligence, observation, secret police, secret service, shadowing, spying, stakeout, surveillance, tailing, trailing, wiretap, wiretapping