inventiveness



acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, authenticity, cageyness, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, creativeness, creativity, cunning, cunningness,

   cut in - barge in, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, charge in, chime in, chip in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, edge in,

   scuttlebutt - bruit, buzz, canard, common talk, cry, flying rumour, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, idea afloat, latrine rumour, news stirring, report, rumble, rumour,

   closed circuit - break, circuit, leg, loop, path, printed circuit, short, short circuit ,

   bespeak - accost, address, announce, apostrophize, appeal to, apply for, apply to, approach, approve, argue, ask, ask for, attest, be construed as, be indicative of,

   browned-off - aggravated, angry, annoyed, bothered, cross, disturbed, exasperated, galled, incensed, indignant, irate, irked, irritated, livid, mad,

   witty reply - acknowledgement, antiphon, back talk, comeback, echo, reaction, receipt, repartee, replication, reply, response, retort, return, reverberation, riposte ,

   orotund - affected, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose,

   shovel - bail, bore, bucket, burrow, cup, decant, delve, dig, dig out, dike, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dredge,

   harasser - bully, hector, nag, pest, sadist, tease, teaser, torment, tormentor ,

   covering materials - adobe, brick, cement, clinker, concrete, fire-brick, flag, flagstone, flooring, masonry, mortar, pavement, plaster, roofing, siding,