in the front



ahead, before, first, foremost, in advance ,

   colonist - emigrant, homesteader, immigrant, newcomer, pioneer, planter, precursor, settler, sooner, squatter ,

   normative - according to Hoyle, accustomed, appropriate, average, common, commonplace, condign, conventional, correct, current, customary, decent, decorous, due, everyday,

   chills of fear - agitation, cold sweat, creeps, disquiet, goose bumps, inquietude, nervousness, palpitation, perturbation, quaking, shiver, sweat, trepidation, uneasiness ,

   bare minimum - competence, enough, minimum, satisfaction ,

   springtime of life - bloom, florescence, prime of life, salad days, tender age, tenderness ,

   retribution - affliction, amends, atonement, avenging, blood money, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, condign punishment, consideration, correction, damages, desert,

   ladle - bail, bucket, calabash, cup, decant, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, fork, gourd, lade, pour, scoop, shovel,

   vol-au-vent - Danish pastry, pastry, pasty, pate, patisserie, pie, puff, quiche, rosette, strudel, tart, trifle, turnover ,

   chicken-farming - breeding, grazing, horsemanship, manage ,

   position line - aspect, attitude, azimuth, bearing, bearings, celestial navigation, dead reckoning, exposure, fix, frontage, lay, lie, orientation, position, set ,