make overtures



act on, answer, approach, bear upon, communicate with, contact, correspond, draw, draw on, get to, interrogate, lead on, lobby, magnetize, make advances,

   heartland - Midlands, airspace, area, belt, confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, department, district, division, environs, ground, hinterland, inland,

   hold conference - bargain, confer, consult, counsel, deliberate, discuss, negotiate, palaver, parley, powwow, reason, refer, refer to, sit down with, take up with,

   congratulation - accolade, adulation, apotheosis, deification, encomium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, flattery, glorification, glory, hero worship, homage, honour, idolatry,

   intoxicating liquor - alcohol, beverage, booze, brew, drink, grog, liquor, potable, punch bowl, rum, schnapps, spirits ,

   sect - Christianity, adherents, affiliation, body, branch, breakaway group, cabal, camp, caucus, church, class, clique, communion, community, confession,

   saloon bar - alehouse, bar, bar-room, beer garden, bistro, cabaret, cocktail lounge, dive, gin mill, local, lounge, nightclub, pub, public, public house,

   under the influence - addled, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, flustered, full, gay, giddy, glorious,

   in a line - direct, even, flat, horizontal, in succession, in turn, level, lineal, linear, rectilinear, right, running, smooth, step by step, straight,

   cyst - benign tumour, boil, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, corn, dilatation, dilation, distension, excrescence, fungus,

   leadenness - bad taste, barbarism, cacophony, coarseness, deadness, dryness, dullness, emptiness, grey, harshness, impropriety, impurity, inanity, infelicity, paleness,