basal
aboriginal, basic, basilar, beginning, bottom, bottommost, central, constituent, constitutive, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, foundational,
columnist - advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, city editor, co-author, collaborator, compiler, composer, copy chief, copy editor, copywriter,
full of meaning - allegorical, connotative, expressive, extended, figurative, indicative, intelligible, interpretable, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable,
subjected - captive, enthralled, oppressed, subjugated, suppressed ,
salesgirl - clerk, floor walker, sales force, salesman, scalper, seller ,
city-state - ally, body politic, buffer state, colony, commonwealth, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, empire, kingdom, land, mandate, nation,
flickering flame - backfire, beacon, blaze, combustion, conflagration, fire, flame, flicker, fox fire, ignition, pyre ,
genteelness - ancestry, aristocracy, birth, blood, blue blood, breeding, civility, cultivation, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elegance, felicity, fitness,
squeeze - arrest, badger, bar, barricade, bear, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear hug, bind, blackmail, bleed, block, block up,
ship - address, aeroplane, air-express, aircraft, airfreight, airmail, airship, argosy, ark, back, bag, balance rudder, balloon, barge, barrel,
foxglove - belladonna, flower, hemlock ,
full of meaning - allegorical, connotative, expressive, extended, figurative, indicative, intelligible, interpretable, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable,
subjected - captive, enthralled, oppressed, subjugated, suppressed ,
salesgirl - clerk, floor walker, sales force, salesman, scalper, seller ,
city-state - ally, body politic, buffer state, colony, commonwealth, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, empire, kingdom, land, mandate, nation,
flickering flame - backfire, beacon, blaze, combustion, conflagration, fire, flame, flicker, fox fire, ignition, pyre ,
genteelness - ancestry, aristocracy, birth, blood, blue blood, breeding, civility, cultivation, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elegance, felicity, fitness,
squeeze - arrest, badger, bar, barricade, bear, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear hug, bind, blackmail, bleed, block, block up,
ship - address, aeroplane, air-express, aircraft, airfreight, airmail, airship, argosy, ark, back, bag, balance rudder, balloon, barge, barrel,
foxglove - belladonna, flower, hemlock ,