chills of fear



agitation, cold sweat, creeps, disquiet, goose bumps, inquietude, nervousness, palpitation, perturbation, quaking, shiver, sweat, trepidation, uneasiness ,

   sky-high - apart, asunder, excessive, tall, towering ,

   heroics - bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bragging, brashness, brass, bravado, brazen boldness, cheek, chutzpah, conceit,

   crossing the bar - annihilation, bane, curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, extinction,

   pulverized - chalky, crushed, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, gone to dust, granular, grated, ground, impalpable, mealy,

   efflorescence - air pollution, bloom, blossom, blow, bran, crumb, dust, eruption, fallout, farina, filings, florescence, flour, flower, flowering,

   overreaction - bigotry, exaggeration, excessiveness, extravagance, extremism, fanaticism, overemphasis, overestimate, overwork, strain, tax ,

   currycomb - bed, break, bridle, broom, brush, cleaning, curry, device, drench, feed, fodder, gentle, groom, handle, harness,

   old sea dog - salt, vet, veteran ,

   waifs - bonus, discovery, find, finding, foundling, gravy, treasure trove, trove, windfall ,

   middlebrow - Babbitt, boob, dabbler, dilettante, dunce, fool, greenhorn, ignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing, lowbrow, no scholar, tenderfoot ,