flagellation



Day of Atonement, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires, corporal punishment,

   pretty good - OK, acceptable, adequate, admissible, all right, alright, decent, fair, good enough, moderate, not bad, passable, presentable, respectable, satisfactory,

   deathly pale - anaemic, ashen, bloodless, blue, cadaverous, colourless, dead, deadly, deathly, dim, dingy, discoloured, dull, eerie, faded,

   clear up - account for, answer, ascertain, assure, bottom, certify, cinch, cipher, clarify, clean up, clear, clear the decks, clinch, crack, debug,

   impalpable - airy, astral, atomic, bodiless, chalky, corpuscular, crushed, disembodied, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, farinaceous,

   biographical - chronological, historical, legendary, traditional ,

   soliloquy - aside, monologue, solo ,

   pyrotechnic - fireworks, pyrotechnics, thermodynamics ,

   social science - academic discipline, academic speciality, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, applied science, area, arena, art, bearing, behaviour,

   action and reaction - answer, echo, jet propulsion, power plant, propulsion, reaction, reflection, reflex, reflex action, reflux, reply, response, return, reverberation, revulsion,

   ink spilling - cryptography, inscription, lettering, pen ,