academe



academia, college, graduate school, instructor, junior college, normal, normal school, university, varsity ,

   incoherence - ablation, abstraction, alienation, ambiguity, ambivalence, anarchy, antinomy, asymmetry, atomization, brainstorm, breakup, chaos, confusion, corrosion, crumbling,

   pops - Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, concert, conservative, dad, daddy, dodo, elder, father, fogy, fossil, governor, granny,

   side dish - boil, broil, course, cover, dish, fry, grill, piece de resistance, roast ,

   insignia of branch - badge, bar, chevron, chicken, eagle, epaulette, hash mark, oak leaf, patch, pip, spread eagle, star, stripe, wings ,

   poor bet - bare possibility, dark horse, improbability, long shot, off chance, outside chance, small chance, unlikelihood ,

   green with jealousy - distrustful, envious, green, invidious, jaundiced, jealous, suspicious, yellow ,

   zigzagways - crooked, curvy, hairpin, staggered, twisty, zigzag ,

   nipped at - badgered, baited, bedevilled, beset, dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hounded, needled, persecuted, pestered, plagued, ragged, tormented,

   before - above, ahead, ahead of time, already, ante, before all, before now, beforehand, betimes, by choice, by election, by vote, confronting, earlier, early,

   keep between us - bosom, classify, conceal, hold out on, keep back, keep from, play dumb, secrete, veil, withhold ,