literalness



accuracy, artlessness, authenticity, delicacy, exactness, fidelity, honesty, legitimacy, meticulousness, naturalism, naturalness, nicety, perfection, precision, realism,

   spare diet - abstention, abstinence, asceticism, avoidance, celibacy, chastity, continence, fast, refraining, vegetarianism ,

   congealing - chilling, freezing, refrigerant ,

   give mouth honour - blandish, cant, mouth, snivel, snuffle, soft soap, sweet talk ,

   angora - cotton, fibre, nylon, thread, wool ,

   inexactness - allowance, approximation, deficiency, deviation, disorder, generality, haziness, immaturity, impairment, impropriety, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, incompleteness, indecisiveness,

   laying open - aperture, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, exposure, gap, gape, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet,

   die-hard - backward, conservative, fogyish, old-fashioned, orthodox, partisan, preservative, purist, reactionary, right, right wing, square, ultraconservative ,

   worsened - aggravated, amplified, annoyed, augmented, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deliberately provoked,

   alkalinity - acid, acidity, agent, alkali, anion, antacid, atom, base, biochemical, cation, chemical, chemical element, compound, element, ion,

   breeze in - admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, burst in, bust in, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drop in, edge in,