in its infancy



aboriginal, beginning, budding, creation, elemental, elementary, embryonic, foetal, formative, fundamental, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant,

   mandrill - ape, gorilla, man, primate ,

   chicory - beverage, drink, herb, vegetable, weed ,

   hired car - bus, hack, mail coach, omnibus, stage, taxi ,

   backslider - apostate, atheist, bad lot, black sheep, collaborator, convert, defector, degenerate, deserter, fallen angel, fifth columnist, lecher, lost soul, miscreant, pervert,

   sneakiness - art, artfulness, artifice, canniness, cleverness, craft, cunning, deceit, duplicity, falseness, finesse, furtiveness, gamesmanship, guile, hypocrisy,

   junior securities - certificate of deposit, note, portfolio, stocks and bonds, treasury note, warrant ,

   busy - absorb, active, arabesque, assiduous, at it, at work, attend to business, baroque, burden, bustling, busybody, chichi, complex, complicated, detailed,

   mischievous - annoying, arch, artful, bad, baleful, baneful, bothering, bothersome, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counter-productive, damaging, dangerous,

   justifiably - dispassionately, duly, equally, evenly, fair, fairly, justly, properly, rightfully, rightly, truly ,

   sheeting - beam, bed linen, bedclothes, bedding, bedspread, billet, blanket, board, boarding, buffalo robe, case, clap board, clothes, comfort, comforter,