ascendancy
Pyrrhic victory, accomplishment, authority, balance of power, championship, charisma, charm, clout, conquest, consequence, control, credit, deanship, dominance, domination,
humiliating - abusive, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, beneath one, calumnious, chastening, cheap, contumelious, crushing, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable,
legislative chamber - assembly, commission, congress, court, diet, lower house, national assembly, parliament, soviet, town meeting, upper house ,
habituation - a habit, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addiction, adjustment, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, breaking, breaking-in, case hardening,
deafening - booming, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, intense, loud, loud-sounding, pealing, penetrating, piercing, plangent,
nervous strain - agitation, angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, distress, disturbance, dread, fear, foreboding, inquietude, malaise, misgiving, nervous tension,
star-crossed - badly off, depressed, dire, doomed, fatal, hapless, ill-starred, inauspicious, luckless, ominous, out of luck, poor, portentous, sad, sorry,
sing out - bellow, call out, clamour, pipe up, vociferate ,
quickness - ability, abruptness, acuity, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, agility, air speed, alacrity, alertness, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite,
softening-up - cushioning, easing, padding, relaxation, softening ,
missive - acknowledgement, answer, billet, chit, communication, dispatch, favour, letter, line, memorandum, message, note, reply ,
legislative chamber - assembly, commission, congress, court, diet, lower house, national assembly, parliament, soviet, town meeting, upper house ,
habituation - a habit, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addiction, adjustment, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, breaking, breaking-in, case hardening,
deafening - booming, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, intense, loud, loud-sounding, pealing, penetrating, piercing, plangent,
nervous strain - agitation, angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, distress, disturbance, dread, fear, foreboding, inquietude, malaise, misgiving, nervous tension,
star-crossed - badly off, depressed, dire, doomed, fatal, hapless, ill-starred, inauspicious, luckless, ominous, out of luck, poor, portentous, sad, sorry,
sing out - bellow, call out, clamour, pipe up, vociferate ,
quickness - ability, abruptness, acuity, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, agility, air speed, alacrity, alertness, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite,
softening-up - cushioning, easing, padding, relaxation, softening ,
missive - acknowledgement, answer, billet, chit, communication, dispatch, favour, letter, line, memorandum, message, note, reply ,