austere
Franciscan, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, abstinent, anchoritic, ascetic, astringent, authoritarian, bald, bare, basic, biting, bitter, bleak,
booing - banter, bantering, boo, catcall, derisive, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hiss, hissing, hoot, jeering, kidding, leering,
reassembling - rebuilding, reconstruction, remaking ,
like greased lightning - flat, hastily, like mad, rapidly, shot, swiftly ,
compounded - ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, blended, combined, complex, composite, conglomerate, dappled, eclectic, equivocal, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic,
born yesterday - artless, bluff, blunt, candid, childlike, confiding, direct, frank, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, open-hearted, outspoken,
musician - artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, dancer, dancing girl, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, hoofer,
buffer - aegis, annul, antacid, antidote, arch dam, arm guard, awl, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, battering ram, bear-trap dam,
idem - carbon copy, copy, dead ringer, ditto, double, duplicate, equivalent, facsimile, homonym, replica, same, selfsame, spitting image, synonym, twin ,
act up - carry, carry on, cut up, horse, horse around, play ,
braveness - bravery, chivalry, gallantry, heroism, manhood, manliness, prowess, valour, virtue ,
reassembling - rebuilding, reconstruction, remaking ,
like greased lightning - flat, hastily, like mad, rapidly, shot, swiftly ,
compounded - ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, blended, combined, complex, composite, conglomerate, dappled, eclectic, equivocal, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic,
born yesterday - artless, bluff, blunt, candid, childlike, confiding, direct, frank, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, open-hearted, outspoken,
musician - artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, dancer, dancing girl, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, hoofer,
buffer - aegis, annul, antacid, antidote, arch dam, arm guard, awl, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, battering ram, bear-trap dam,
idem - carbon copy, copy, dead ringer, ditto, double, duplicate, equivalent, facsimile, homonym, replica, same, selfsame, spitting image, synonym, twin ,
act up - carry, carry on, cut up, horse, horse around, play ,
braveness - bravery, chivalry, gallantry, heroism, manhood, manliness, prowess, valour, virtue ,