bad condition
adjustment, form, order, repair, shape, trim ,
mythic - allegorical, fabulous, fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, legendary, make believe, mythical, mythological, parabolic, romantic, romanticized
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consumer survey - hawking, huckstering, jobbing, market research, marketing, merchandising, peddling, promotion, retailing, salesmanship, sell-out, selling, soft sell, wholesaling ,
like a furnace - ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, burning, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, overheated, roasting, scalding, scorching,
galley chase - Linotype, composition, dummy, furniture, imposition, justification, layout, quoin, setting, slug, typesetting machine ,
plop down - cave, cave in, decline, droop, flop, founder, give way, go down, lapse, lour, lower, plop, plump, sag, set,
hard copy - magnetic tape, microfiche, microfilm, oscilloscope, printout, reader, readout, recorder ,
fall to pieces - ablate, atomize, bite the dust, break, break open, break up, burst, canker, carry away, come apart, come off, come to dust, come undone, come unstuck, consume,
late hour - eleventh hour, high time, last minute, small hours, tardiness ,
versatile - able, accessible, accomplished, adaptable, adjustable, adroit, all-around, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, changeable, changing, convenient, conversant,
television - advice, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, automation, avionics, box, broadcast journalism, channel, communicant, communicator, electron microscopy, electron optics, electron physics,
consumer survey - hawking, huckstering, jobbing, market research, marketing, merchandising, peddling, promotion, retailing, salesmanship, sell-out, selling, soft sell, wholesaling ,
like a furnace - ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, burning, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, overheated, roasting, scalding, scorching,
galley chase - Linotype, composition, dummy, furniture, imposition, justification, layout, quoin, setting, slug, typesetting machine ,
plop down - cave, cave in, decline, droop, flop, founder, give way, go down, lapse, lour, lower, plop, plump, sag, set,
hard copy - magnetic tape, microfiche, microfilm, oscilloscope, printout, reader, readout, recorder ,
fall to pieces - ablate, atomize, bite the dust, break, break open, break up, burst, canker, carry away, come apart, come off, come to dust, come undone, come unstuck, consume,
late hour - eleventh hour, high time, last minute, small hours, tardiness ,
versatile - able, accessible, accomplished, adaptable, adjustable, adroit, all-around, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, changeable, changing, convenient, conversant,
television - advice, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, automation, avionics, box, broadcast journalism, channel, communicant, communicator, electron microscopy, electron optics, electron physics,