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begrudge, grudge, pinch, scamp, scant, screw, scrimp, skimp, starve, stint ,

   in embarrassed circumstances - embarrassed, encumbered, in the red, indebted, involved, tied up ,

   colours of rhetoric - adornment, colours, embellishment, embroidery, figure, figure of speech, fine writing, flourish, frill, ornament, purple passage ,

   knowingly - advisedly, artfully, astutely, by design, cagily, calculatedly, cannily, circumspectly, cleverly, consciously, considerately, cunningly, deliberately, designedly, discerningly,

   penis - bag, balls, basket, beard, breasts, cervix, clitoris, cod, cods, family jewels, female organs, genitalia, genitals, gonads, labia,

   ready to - apt to, disposed, given, inclined, liable to, likely to, minded, predisposed, prone, ready, verge ,

   straits - arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, bind, broken fortune, clutch, complication, cove, creek, crunch, difficulties, distress,

   transmutable - convertible, modifiable, resolvable, transitional ,

   captious critic - censor, cognoscente, commentator, connoisseur, critic, editor, muckraker, nitpicker, perfectionist, pettifogger, prevaricator, quibbler, reviewer, scold, stickler ,

   be doing - do, engage in, practice, take up ,

   heir whatsoever - heir, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, successor ,