intervener



agent, connection, deputy, front, front man, go between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, mediator, medium, middleman, mouthpiece, negotiator, ombudsman,

   rising prices - ceiling, floor, inflation, inflationary spiral, rack rent ,

   vadium - escrow, hock, hostage, token payment ,

   numbed - Olympian, aloof, anaesthetized, apathetic, asleep, benumbed, blah, callous, chill, comatose, dead, detached, disinterested, dull, groggy,

   quadrennial - anniversary, bicentennial, biennial, birthday, centennial, commemoration, jubilee, leap year, name day, natal day, sesquicentennial, tercentenary, triennial ,

   immigrant - alien, arrival, citizen, citizen by adoption, colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, cosmopolitan, displaced person, emigrant, entrant, evacuee, exile, expatriate,

   throw at - cast, chuck, fire, fling, heave, hurl, let fly at, shy, sling, throw, toss ,

   blaze of light - blaze, flame, flare, flash, glance, glint ,

   bare-chested - barefaced, topless ,

   strike off - abbreviate, abridge, abstract, ad-lib, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, bowdlerize, cancel, cast off, cast out,

   quietening - analgesic, anodyne, appeasing, calming, cradling, depressant, dreamy, drowsy, gentling, hushing, hypnotic, lulling, mollifying, narcotic, pacifying,