backwardness
antipathy, arrested development, aversion, coldness, conservatism, constraint, cretinism, detachment, disagreement, discretion, disinclination, disobedience, dissent, distance, distaste,
debased - abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, cheesy, contaminated, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, crouched, crummy, debauched,
allegorist - commentator, critic, cryptologist, demonstrator, editor, exponent, expositor, go between, guide, interpreter, lexicographer, translator ,
padding - aegis, all fours, arm guard, backstop, bonus, buffer, bulwark, bumper, bush, bushing, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, crawl, crawling,
devastate - abash, bring to ruin, chagrin, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, demolish, depopulate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy,
injuriously - harmfully, malevolently, malignantly ,
pave the way - aid, blaze the trail, break the ice, clear the way, cultivate the soil, ease, expedite, explain, facilitate, go in advance, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, hasten, help along,
chequered - able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, changeable, check, checked, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic,
now and then - at infrequent intervals, at intervals, at times, betimes, ever and again, ever and anon, every so often, here and there, now, occasionally, on occasion, sometimes ,
peril - breakers ahead, cause for alarm, compromise, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, exposure, gamble, gamble with,
come closer - accost, advance, approach, approximate, bear down on, bear up, close, close in, come, come forward, come on, confront, draw near, encounter, gain upon,
allegorist - commentator, critic, cryptologist, demonstrator, editor, exponent, expositor, go between, guide, interpreter, lexicographer, translator ,
padding - aegis, all fours, arm guard, backstop, bonus, buffer, bulwark, bumper, bush, bushing, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, crawl, crawling,
devastate - abash, bring to ruin, chagrin, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, demolish, depopulate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy,
injuriously - harmfully, malevolently, malignantly ,
pave the way - aid, blaze the trail, break the ice, clear the way, cultivate the soil, ease, expedite, explain, facilitate, go in advance, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, hasten, help along,
chequered - able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, changeable, check, checked, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic,
now and then - at infrequent intervals, at intervals, at times, betimes, ever and again, ever and anon, every so often, here and there, now, occasionally, on occasion, sometimes ,
peril - breakers ahead, cause for alarm, compromise, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, exposure, gamble, gamble with,
come closer - accost, advance, approach, approximate, bear down on, bear up, close, close in, come, come forward, come on, confront, draw near, encounter, gain upon,