inactivity



a wise passiveness, comfort, contemplation, contemplative life, deliberateness, deliberation, do-nothing policy, do-nothingness, dormancy, ease, fixation, fixity, hibernation, idleness, immobility,

   pygmy - Caucasian, Indian, Lilliputian, Negro, WASP, black, black man, boy, brown man, brownie, coloured person, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed,

   unmannerliness - coarseness, disrespect, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, insensitivity, rudeness, vulgarity ,

   blinker - Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blue peter, buoy, caution light, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle,

   pledged - affianced, affirmed, alleged, announced, answerable for, asserted, asseverated, assured, at stake, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, beholden, beholden to,

   signal rocket - Roman candle, alarm, beacon, bell, blinker, buoy, flare, foghorn, glance, green light, high sign, kick, leer, light, missile,

   statutory referendum - initiative, mandate, plebiscite, recall, referendum ,

   invade - adopt, advance upon, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge in, beset, board, break bounds, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, charge in, come between,

   anchoritic - ascetic, austere, cloistered, domestic, mendicant, puritanical, recluse, self-denying, sequestered, shut in, shut up, unsocial ,

   pressed - crowded, double time, hard pressed, hurried, on the double, possessed, rushed ,

   potage - bisque, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, chicken soup, clear soup, egg drop soup, fish soup, gazpacho, gravy soup, julienne, matzo ball soup, minestrone, mock turtle soup,