a thing for



affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, cast, delight, diathesis, disposition, eagerness, feeling for, inclination, instinct, leaning, liability, liking,

   governing body - administration, board, brass, cabinet, cadre, council, directorate, directory, executive, management, steering committee, top brass ,

   cardiovascular disease - abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication,

   undercovert - cubbyhole, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, niche ,

   pitch into - accept, ambush, assail, assault, assume, attack, attempt, blitz, buckle to, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon,

   illiberality - avarice, bigotry, blind spot, blinders, closeness, fanaticism, insularity, intolerance, littleness, meanness, near-sightedness, nearness, parochialism, pettiness, provincialism,

   widespread - accepted, ample, broad, broadcast, capacious, commodious, conformable, conventional, current, customary, deep, deltoid, diffuse, discrete, dispersed,

   with emphasis - absolutely, decidedly, emphatically, positively ,

   half-clothed - strapless, topless, unclad, unclothed, undressed ,

   dispose of - abandon, abjure, abstract, accomplish, achieve, annihilate, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, attain, bereave of life, call off, cancel, carry away, carry off,

   be doing - do, engage in, practice, take up ,