base pay



compensation, dismissal wage, earnings, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances,

   make a request - apply, ask, ask for, beg leave, bespeak, call for, crave, demand, desire, file, indent, order, request, requisition, way,

   comment upon - air, analyse, annotate, canvass, censure, commentate, consider, controvert, criticize, critique, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, descant,

   autocracy - absolutism, aristocracy, autonomy, colonialism, commonwealth, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, federation, feudal system, garrison state, hierarchy, home rule, martial law, militarism,

   laying of charges - allegation, arraignment, bill of particulars, blame, charge, complaint, count, denunciation, implication, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, lawsuit,

   smack of - ape, appear like, approach, approximate, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, come close, come near, compare with, copy, correspond,

   complicated - Byzantine, abstruse, arduous, balled up, beyond one, complex, compound, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, devious, difficult, elaborate,

   take aim at - aim at, barrage, blast, blitz, bombard, cannon, cannonade, fire, fusillade, mortar, open fire, pepper, rake, shell, shoot,

   cleaning agent - cathartic, cleaner, cleanser, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, detergent, diuretic, emetic, enema, holystone, lotion, mouthwash, pumice stone, purgative,

   starry heaven - air, azure, blue, canopy, cerulean, ether, firmament, heaven, lift, sky, vault ,

   scintillation - aphorism, black spot, blink, blinking, bloom, blooping, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, conceit, coruscation, crack, definition, epigram, firefly,