involute



circuitous, cirrus, coil, complex, corkscrew, curl, curlicue, helix, kink, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, ringlet, roll, roundabout,

   nit-picking - animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, captious, carping, cavil, chicanery, criticism, difficult, dodging, equivocation, evasion, evasive,

   enquiry - ask, ask a question, ask about, ask questions, be curious, bring into question, burn with curiosity, demand, dig around for, dig up, gape, gawk, inquire, inquire of, interrogate,

   wavelike - alternate, beating, circling, cyclic, cyclical, epochal, even, every other, intermittent, measured, metronomic, oscillatory, periodic, pulsing, reciprocal,

   jockstrap - advocate, arm, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier,

   packed like sardines - SRO, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, congested, crammed, filled, flush, full, overfull, overstuffed, packed, plenary, replete,

   sentence of death - annihilation, bane, curtains, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, extinction, going,

   native - aboriginal, aborigine, agrarian, artless, atavistic, basic, best, bodily, born, bucolic, by birth, candid, citizen, clan, coeval,

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

   friction - abrasion, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, argument, attrition, backlash, bad blood, belligerence, bickering, caressing, chafing, clash, clashing, collision,

   meet requirements - answer, avail, bear, do, fill the bill, fulfil, get by, go around, hack it, hold, hold up, make the grade, meet, pass, pass muster,