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action, ad lib, answer, artifice, bat out, botch, bungle, contrivance, cook up, coup, course of action, dash off, device, dodge, effort,

   lamentable - abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal,

   give the eye - contemplate, examine, eye, inspect, leer, look over, ogle, peruse, pore over, scrutinize, size up, survey, vet ,

   standard work - best seller, classic, folio, juvenile, notebook, novel, opus, paperback, prayer book, production, psalter, publication, serial, sketchbook, songbook,

   umbilicus - axis, centre, centre of action, centre of gravity, centroid, core, dead centre, epicentre, heart, hub, kernel, marrow, medulla, middle, nave,

   nematode - amoeba, bacteria, germ, micro-organism, worm ,

   throbbing pain - ache, aching, angina, bellyache, colic, fret, gnawing, gripe, headache, heartburn, migraine, stomach-ache, toothache ,

   jape - back answer, badinage, banter, barrack, be merry with, belly laugh, blue story, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, crack, crack a joke, crack wise, cut, cut at,

   slightly - a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly, imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell,

   yawny - anaesthetized, boring, dreamy, drowsy, fatiguing, heavy, irksome, languid, lethargic, napping, nodding, sedated, sleepy, somnolent, stretchy,

   salty - biting, blue, brackish, brilliant, briny, broad, clever, droll, facetious, funny, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking,