auditory range
earshot, hearing, range, reach, sound ,
spring a surprise - ambush, astonish, bushwhack, pounce upon, spring upon, surprise
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cut the cards - call, gamble, game, lot, play, raffle, speculate, sport, toss ,
city editor - columnist, correspondent, cub reporter, editor, gazetteer, journalist, leg man, newsman, newspaperman, publicist, reader, reporter, rewrite man, sob sister ,
engrossed in thought - absorbed, abstracted, engrossed, introspective, lost in thought, occupied, preoccupied, rapt ,
approbation - John Hancock, OK, acceptance, accord, account, acquiescence, adherence, admiration, adoration, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, apotheosis, appreciation,
back road - back door, back stairs, back way, bypass, byway, detour, side door, side road ,
nothingness - absence, acreage, area, blackout, blank, breadth, catalepsy, catatonia, clean slate, coma, continuum, deprivation, dimension, emptiness, empty space,
assertively - absolutely, decidedly, emphatically, positively ,
fetish - Baal, amulet, bias, charm, compulsion, devil-god, fixation, good-luck charm, graven image, hoodoo, idol, joss, leaning, love charm, luck,
unmatched - best, beyond compare, beyond comparison, champion, choice, contrasting, counter, different, disparate, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, easily first, elect, elite,
cut the cards - call, gamble, game, lot, play, raffle, speculate, sport, toss ,
city editor - columnist, correspondent, cub reporter, editor, gazetteer, journalist, leg man, newsman, newspaperman, publicist, reader, reporter, rewrite man, sob sister ,
engrossed in thought - absorbed, abstracted, engrossed, introspective, lost in thought, occupied, preoccupied, rapt ,
approbation - John Hancock, OK, acceptance, accord, account, acquiescence, adherence, admiration, adoration, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, apotheosis, appreciation,
back road - back door, back stairs, back way, bypass, byway, detour, side door, side road ,
nothingness - absence, acreage, area, blackout, blank, breadth, catalepsy, catatonia, clean slate, coma, continuum, deprivation, dimension, emptiness, empty space,
assertively - absolutely, decidedly, emphatically, positively ,
fetish - Baal, amulet, bias, charm, compulsion, devil-god, fixation, good-luck charm, graven image, hoodoo, idol, joss, leaning, love charm, luck,
unmatched - best, beyond compare, beyond comparison, champion, choice, contrasting, counter, different, disparate, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, easily first, elect, elite,