absolutely



OK, Roger, actually, affirmatively, all out, all right, alright, altogether, amen, and no mistake, as you say, assertively, assuredly, at all events, at any rate,

   hard master - Pharaoh, autocrat, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, martinet, oppressor, slave driver, stickler, tyrant, usurper, warlord ,

   have second thoughts - come round, reconsider, review, wheel ,

   public report - ballyhoo, blurb, celebrity, common knowledge, cry, currency, daylight, exposure, fame, glare, hoopla, hue and cry, limelight, notoriety, plug,

   do violence to - abuse, batter, break, bruise, buffet, defy, flout, harm, ill-use, infringe, injure, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, maul,

   unvirtuous - besmirched, smirched, soiled, sullied ,

   tormenting - acute, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, biting, bothering, bothersome, chafing, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, disquieting,

   hand tool - apparatus, contraption, contrivance, device, gadget, gimcrack, gimmick, implement, instrument, means, utensil ,

   demonic - cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dreadful, execrable, fiendish, ghoulish, hellish, infernal, inhuman, satanic,

   rich man - billionaire, bloated plutocrat, capitalist, fat cat, individualist, man of means, man of substance, man of wealth, millionaire, moneybags, moneyed man, multimillionaire, nabob, parvenu, plutocrat,

   crumbling - ablation, abrasion, atomization, attrition, beating, breakup, coming apart, corrosion, cracking, crushing, decadent, decay, declining, decomposition, decrepit,