jack-in-the-box



ball, bat, battledore, bauble, block, chequerboard, club, cue, doll, gewgaw, gimcrack, hobby-horse, jacks, knick-knack, marble,

   progressivism - conversion, extremism, gradualism, left, left wing, leftism, liberalism, radical reform, radicalism, reform, reformation, reformism, regeneration, revisionism, revolution,

   charge to - account for, accredit, acknowledge, attribute, blame, bring home to, confess, connect, credit, fasten upon, fix on, hang on, lay to, pin on, pinpoint,

   thin down - attenuate, diet, dilute, emaciate, rarefy, reduce, thin, water, weaken ,

   jumping-off place - North Pole, Siberia, South Pole, Timbuktu, antipodes, back of beyond, bitter end, boon docks, bottom dollar, boundary, burg, butt, extreme, extremity, fag end,

   monumental - Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, Olympian, abject, abysmal, aerial, airy, ascending, aspiring, astronomic, astronomical, awe-inspiring, awesome,

   proboscis - beak, bill, bugle, conk, muffle, muzzle, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, rostrum, schnozzle, smeller,

   lowness of spirit - deadness, death wish, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, downer, dryness, emptiness, hopelessness, inanity, low spirits, lowness, malaise, oppression,

   companion bills amendment - amendment, bill, calendar, clause, joker, motion, proviso, question, rider, saving clause ,

   resonance - amplitude, crest, diffraction, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, fluctuation, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, guided wave, harmonic motion, in phase, interference, light, longitudinal wave,

   weed-ridden - dense, exuberant, flourishing, gone to seed, gross, heavy, impenetrable, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, rank, riotous, thick, weedy ,