hostage



bail, bond, captive, earnest, earnest money, escrow, gage, guaranty, hock, pawn, pledge, prisoner, recognizance, security, surety,

   in a whirl - around, clockwise, counter-clockwise, head over heels, round, round about, round and round ,

   hunger after - aspire, covet, crave, hanker, hunger, lust after, thirst ,

   inclusion-exclusion - definition, delimitation, demarcation, determination, specification ,

   diffusely - aplenty, at large, everywhere, extravagantly, fully, generously, here and there, lavishly, liberally, no end, profusely, sparsely, sporadically, throughout ,

   land tenure - Lordship, dominion, landholding, proprietary, sovereignty ,

   central station - base, headquarters, main office, power plant, powerhouse, seat ,

   literary composition - artistry, authorship, automatic writing, composition, journalism, pen, writing ,

   concentration - abbreviation, absorbed attention, absorption, abstraction, acceleration, agglutination, aggravation, alertness, application, approach, ardour, assiduity, assiduousness, astringency, asymptote,

   canonic - canonical, divine, religious ,

   dejected - black, blue, bowed-down, cast down, crestfallen, dark, dashed, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, dour,