lame excuse
alibi, apology, blind, cloak, colour, cop out, cover, cover story, cover up, device, excuse, fa?§ade, feint, front, gloss,
folk-ways - acculturation, civilization, complex, culture, ethos, mores, society, trait
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sustenance - TLC, aid, aliment, alimony, backing, board, bread, bread and butter, care, carriage, carrying, cheer, chow, comestibles, continuance,
black squall - blizzard, blow, gale, hurricane, squall, storm, tempest, typhoon, wind storm ,
shunting off - circumvention, defence mechanism, dodge, duck, equivocation, escape, evasion, forbearance, forestalling, neutrality, non-intervention, prevention, refraining, run around, shunning,
far-going - broad, diffuse, extensive, indiscriminate, liberal, sweeping, wholesale, wide, widespread ,
time scale - annals, chronicle, chronology, diary, journal, log, record, register, registry, time sheet, time study, timetable ,
stymie - block, brake, confound, deadlock, defeat, flummox, foil, frustrate, halt, hinder, impede, nonplus, obstruct, ruin, slow down,
unclean - abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, backsliding, base, bawdy, beastly, beneath contempt, besmirched, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, carnal,
undecipherable - incomprehensible, recondite, unclear ,
strawberry mark - birthmark, blackhead, blaze, blemish, blister, blotch, brand, caste mark, check, cicatrix, crack, crater, craze, cut, dapple,
sustenance - TLC, aid, aliment, alimony, backing, board, bread, bread and butter, care, carriage, carrying, cheer, chow, comestibles, continuance,
black squall - blizzard, blow, gale, hurricane, squall, storm, tempest, typhoon, wind storm ,
shunting off - circumvention, defence mechanism, dodge, duck, equivocation, escape, evasion, forbearance, forestalling, neutrality, non-intervention, prevention, refraining, run around, shunning,
far-going - broad, diffuse, extensive, indiscriminate, liberal, sweeping, wholesale, wide, widespread ,
time scale - annals, chronicle, chronology, diary, journal, log, record, register, registry, time sheet, time study, timetable ,
stymie - block, brake, confound, deadlock, defeat, flummox, foil, frustrate, halt, hinder, impede, nonplus, obstruct, ruin, slow down,
unclean - abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, backsliding, base, bawdy, beastly, beneath contempt, besmirched, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, carnal,
undecipherable - incomprehensible, recondite, unclear ,
strawberry mark - birthmark, blackhead, blaze, blemish, blister, blotch, brand, caste mark, check, cicatrix, crack, crater, craze, cut, dapple,