ironical



incisive, sarcastic, sardonic ,

   despoliation - abomination, atrocity, bad, banditry, bane, blight, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, carnage, consumption, corruption, crying evil, damage,

   remit - abate, absolve, acquit, address, air-express, airfreight, airmail, alleviate, amnesty, assign, assuage, attenuate, bate, be conservative, be moderate,

   predictor - Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, crystal gazer, diviner, forecaster, foreseer, foreteller, fortune-teller, palmist, presager, prognosticator, prophesier,

   chromium plate - electroplating, plate, plating, silver plate ,

   retrospect - afterthought, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, cite, commitment to memory, conjure up, evoke, exercise of memory, flashback, go back, go back over, hark back,

   be early - announce, antedate, anticipate, go before, herald, pre-date, precede, proclaim, usher in ,

   tousled - dishevelled, matted, messed up, rumpled, shaggy, snarled, uncombed, unkempt ,

   wreak havoc - abuse, afflict, aggrieve, befoul, bewitch, blight, bring to ruin, condemn, confound, consume, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, damn,

   tripartite - deltoid, three-cornered, three-dimensional, three-footed, three-pronged, three-sided, triangular, triangulate, trident, trihedral, trilateral, trisected ,

   tuning bar - baton, diapason, metronome, mute, stick ,