losing game



bankruptcy, defeat, futility, no go, uselessness ,

   teach - broaden the mind, catechize, civilize, coach, communicate, demonstrate, direct, discipline, drill, edify, educate, enlighten, exercise, give instruction, give lessons in,

   hurt the feelings - affront, aggrieve, anguish, bruise, cut, cut up, grieve, hurt, offend, outrage, pain, pierce, prick, stab, sting,

   cubes - bird cage, bone, bones, craps, dice, die, ivories, ivory, teeth ,

   proceedings - account, account rendered, accounting, action, activeness, activism, activity, affairs, annual, brief, bulletin, business, case, cause, cause in court,

   bilked - baffled, baulked, betrayed, blasted, blighted, crestfallen, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed, disillusioned, dissatisfied, foiled, frustrated, let down,

   fetter - anchor, arrest, bearing rein, bind, bit, bond, bonds, brake, bridle, burden, camisole, chain, chains, check, chock,

   extend throughout - crawl with, creep with, diffuse, fill, honeycomb, imbue, leaven, occupy, overrun, overspread, penetrate, permeate, pervade, run through, suffuse,

   mustard - condiment, eagerness, herb, hotbed, pepper, rabbit, salt, spice, warren, weed ,

   do wrong - abuse, afflict, aggrieve, befoul, bewitch, blight, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage,

   interpolative - episodic, parenthetic, parenthetical ,