laggard
apathetic, backward, baulking, baulky, bone-lazy, cadging, clock watcher, comatose, dallier, dallying, dawdle, dawdler, delaying, deliberate, diddler,
show signs of - approve, argue, attest, bespeak, betoken, breathe, connote, demonstrate, denote, display, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, illustrate,
counter-offensive - aggression, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, counter-attack, diversion, drive, infiltration, mugging, offence, offensive, onset, onslaught,
the four elements - air, atom, building block, chemical element, component, constituent, earth, element, elementary particle, fire, material, materiality, matter, molecule, monad,
sounded - articulated, droning, enunciated, lingual, linguistic, monotone, monotonic, oral, pronounced, said, sonorous, sounding, speech, spoken, tonal,
ballade - Christmas carol, anthem, art song, ballad, blues, bucolic, calypso, canticle, carol, chant, dirge, ditty, elegy, epic, epigram,
outrageous - a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absurd, abusive, acute, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, barbaric, barbarous, base,
wear - abate, abide, ablate, ablation, about ship, abrade, abrasion, abrasive, act a part, affect, apparel, array, assume, atomization, attire,
effulgent - alight, beaming, blinding, bright, brilliant, dazzling, flamboyant, flaming, garish, glaring, glorious, incandescent, lambent, light, lucent,
historian - annalist, chronicler, diarist ,
case hardening - accommodation, adjustment, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, conditioning, fortification, habituation, hardening, naturalization, orientation, petrification, refreshment, reinforcement, sclerosis, seasoning,
counter-offensive - aggression, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, counter-attack, diversion, drive, infiltration, mugging, offence, offensive, onset, onslaught,
the four elements - air, atom, building block, chemical element, component, constituent, earth, element, elementary particle, fire, material, materiality, matter, molecule, monad,
sounded - articulated, droning, enunciated, lingual, linguistic, monotone, monotonic, oral, pronounced, said, sonorous, sounding, speech, spoken, tonal,
ballade - Christmas carol, anthem, art song, ballad, blues, bucolic, calypso, canticle, carol, chant, dirge, ditty, elegy, epic, epigram,
outrageous - a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absurd, abusive, acute, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, barbaric, barbarous, base,
wear - abate, abide, ablate, ablation, about ship, abrade, abrasion, abrasive, act a part, affect, apparel, array, assume, atomization, attire,
effulgent - alight, beaming, blinding, bright, brilliant, dazzling, flamboyant, flaming, garish, glaring, glorious, incandescent, lambent, light, lucent,
historian - annalist, chronicler, diarist ,
case hardening - accommodation, adjustment, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, conditioning, fortification, habituation, hardening, naturalization, orientation, petrification, refreshment, reinforcement, sclerosis, seasoning,