intense darkness



dark, dead of night, night, obscurity, swarthiness ,

   dressing room - acting area, apron, apron stage, backstage, band shell, bandstand, board, bridge, cloakroom, closet, dock, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, green room,

   merriness - amusement, frivolity, fun, glee, hilarity, jocularity, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, laughter, levity, merriment, mirth ,

   senatorial - bicameral, lawmaking, legislative, parliamentary, unicameral ,

   ethnic joke - fun, gag, howler, jape, jest, joke, laugh, panic, play, point, riot, scream, sport, story, wheeze,

   elaborately - extravagantly, grandly, impressively, magnificently, nobly, proudly, splendidly, superbly ,

   fine writing - adornment, beauties, calligraphy, colours, colours of rhetoric, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, figure, figure of speech, floridness, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, frill,

   mutiny - arise, civil disorder, disobedience, disobey, general uprising, indiscipline, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, interregnum, irresponsibility, lawlessness, license, licentiousness,

   punctured - belied, confounded, deflated, denied, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, exploded, exposed, flat, impugned, invalidated, overthrown,

   decampment - AWOL, French leave, bolt, departure, desertion, disappearance, egress, elopement, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, flight, getaway, going,

   deflection - aberration, angle, apex, atmospheric attenuation, bend, bending, bifurcation, bight, blind spots, bow, bowing, cant, chevron, circuitousness, clutter,