abruptness
alacrity, ascent, climb, curtness, dullness, harshness, hastiness, impulsiveness, precipitation, promptness, quickness, rashness, rise, rising, roughness,
foretelling - apocalypse, apocalyptic, cast, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreseeing, foresight, forewarning, guesswork, omen, ominous, oracular, prediction, predictive,
tot up to - add up, aggregate, amount to, come to, comprise, contain, mount up to, number, run into, total, tote up ,
borne out - ascertained, attested, authenticated, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, established, fixed, proved, proven, settled, shown, substantiated,
concupiscent - animal, bawdy, carnal, dirty, ejaculatory, erotic, fleshly, horny, hot, immoral, itching, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous,
shrivelled - Lilliputian, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering,
play on words - abuse of terms, acrostic, anagram, be merry with, corruption, crack a joke, crack wise, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, joke, kid, kid around,
trawling - casting, fishing, whaling ,
big game hunter - Nimrod, beater, courser, hunter, sportsman ,
leisure - at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, ease, fallow, free, free time, freedom, holiday, idle, inactive, jobless, leisured,
assenting - abject, accepting, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, approving, complaisant, compliant, complying, conceding, consenting,
tot up to - add up, aggregate, amount to, come to, comprise, contain, mount up to, number, run into, total, tote up ,
borne out - ascertained, attested, authenticated, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, established, fixed, proved, proven, settled, shown, substantiated,
concupiscent - animal, bawdy, carnal, dirty, ejaculatory, erotic, fleshly, horny, hot, immoral, itching, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous,
shrivelled - Lilliputian, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering,
play on words - abuse of terms, acrostic, anagram, be merry with, corruption, crack a joke, crack wise, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, joke, kid, kid around,
trawling - casting, fishing, whaling ,
big game hunter - Nimrod, beater, courser, hunter, sportsman ,
leisure - at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, ease, fallow, free, free time, freedom, holiday, idle, inactive, jobless, leisured,
assenting - abject, accepting, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, approving, complaisant, compliant, complying, conceding, consenting,

