in essence



au fait, essence, essentially, fundamentally, nearly, per se, practically, primarily, principally, principle, substantially, virtually ,

   coming between - interlocutory, intermediary, intermediate, intervening, mediating, middle ,

   oddball - abnormal, absurd, alien, anomalous, anomaly, bizarre, black sheep, blemish, case, character, crackpot, crank, cranky, crosspatch, crotchety,

   ticket scalper - clerk, floor walker, sales force, salesman, scalper, seller ,

   marriage act - adultery, ass, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coitus, commerce, congress, connection, fornication, germ cell, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, mating,

   ruling passion - complex, compulsion, fascination, fixation, hang up, monomania, obsession, possession, preoccupation, prepossession, tic ,

   deer fly fever - German measles, ague, anthrax, black death, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, flu, hepatitis, herpes, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, influenza, leprosy,

   spoilage - biodegradability, breakup, caries, carrion, corrosion, corruption, decay, decomposition, degradation, dilapidation, disintegration, disorganization, dissolution, dry rot, foulness,

   heartbreak - aching heart, affliction, agony, anguish, bale, bleeding heart, broken heart, care, desolateness, desolation, dole, excruciation, grief, heartache, heartsickness,

   domicile - abide, abiding place, abode, accommodations, address, bed, berth, bestow, billet, board, bunk, cantonment, cohabit, crash pad, crib,

   fixated - besotted, gripped, held, hung up, infatuated, obsessed, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed ,