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absolve, acquit, amnesty, backfire, blast, blow out, blow up, burst, bust, cast loose, charge, charter, chartered, clear, cock,

   loser - also-ran, bankrupt, bomb, booby, bummer, bust, clinker, con, duck, dud, failure, fall guy, false alarm, fiasco, flop,

   study to - attempt, dare, endeavour, pretend, strive ,

   run after - act up to, agree to anything, approach, break the ice, bring, bring back, brown-nose, call for, chase, chase after, court, cultivate, curry favour, dance attendance on, dog,

   tainted - abandoned, bad, bad for, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blackened, blown, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, darkened, debased, debauched,

   open a show - bill, bomb, dramatize, fail, feature, flop, headline, mount, open, premiere, present, preview, produce, put on, stage,

   beaten path - beat, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, board walk, bridle path, broken record, bureaucracy, catwalk, daily grind, esplanade, foot pavement, footpath, garden path, grind,

   misdoing - aberration, crime, delusion, discourtesy, disorder, disorderly conduct, disruption, distortion, errancy, error, evildoing, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault,

   inspiring - animating, auspicious, bright with promise, cheerful, cheering, cheery, dignified, elevated, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, favourable, full of promise, glad,

   thinkable - believable, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, feasible, humanly possible, imaginable, likely, plausible, possible, potential, probable, reasonable, supposable,

   key word - catchword, clue, cue, evidence, hint, intimation, key, lead, scent, spoor, suggestion, tell-tale, tip off, trace, vestige,