gain ground



accelerate, advance, ameliorate, amend, come along, come on, develop, gain, get ahead, get along, go, go ahead, go along, go on, graduate,

   catechizing - challenge, dispute, examination, inquiring, inquiry, interrogation, probing, questioning, quiz ,

   fingertip caress - breath, brush, caress, contact, feel, feeling, flick, glance, graze, kiss, lap, lick, light touch, rub, stroke,

   extraterritorial - alien, extramural, extraterrestrial, foreign, outlandish ,

   compensatory - apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensative, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory, lucrative, moneymaking, offsetting,

   act on - act upon, affect, approach, bear a hand, bear upon, concentrate on, condemn, decree, do something, do something about, doom, draw, draw on, exert influence, find,

   naked steel - axe, blade, cutlery, cutter, dagger, edge tool, knife, point, sharpener, steel, sword, whittle ,

   wind-up - catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, close, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease,

   train upon - aim, aim at, bend, determine, direct, fix, fix on, hold on, level at, point, point at, point to, present, set, sight,

   serviceman - air serviceman, armed forces, brave, cannon fodder, cobbler, doctor, fighter, fighting man, fixer, food for powder, forces, legionary, maintenance man, man-at-arms, mechanic,

   yucky - awful, bad, beastly, brackish, cloying, disgusting, foetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky, maggoty, mawkish, mucky, nasty,