machination



artifice, behind-the-scenes influence, cabal, chicane, chicanery, collusion, complicity, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, deep-laid plot, design, designing,

   stupefied - Olympian, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, aloof, amazed, apathetic, appalled, ashen, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck,

   disabled - bad, burned-out, castrated, crippled, damaged, devitalized, disarmed, disqualified, drained, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, eviscerated, exhausted,

   childishness - callowness, childlikeness, decline, dotage, girlishness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexpedience, injudiciousness, irrationality,

   farrier - Vulcan, breaker, breeder, broncobuster, cattleman, dairy farmer, equerry, forger, groom, hostler, rancher, smith, stableman, tamer, trainer ,

   amateurishness - greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, unfamiliarity ,

   snap the thread - break, break off, cut off, interrupt, suspend ,

   canoe - ark, auxiliary, barge, boat, cargo boat, carry sail, cat, catamaran, circumnavigate, coast, cockle, cockleshell, cog, coracle, cross,

   ache for - ache, clamour for, cry for, hope, itch for, long, lust, pant, pine, spoil for, wish for, yearn for, yen for ,

   ironware - appliance, dinnerware, durables, earthenware, fixture, flatware, glassware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housewares, silverware, stoneware, tableware, white goods ,

   external - alien, apparent, border, circumference, cortex, cortical, covering, crust, envelope, epidermic, epidermis, exotic, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic,