malevolent influence



Jonah, bad influence, curse, enchantment, evil eye, hex, hoodoo, jinx, spell, voodoo, whammy ,

   skin-dive - dive, drop, fall, nose dive, parachute, pitch, plop, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, pounce, pounce upon, sky dive, sound,

   look round - burrow, delve, dig, explore, forage, frisk, go through, hunt, look around, look through, nose around, poke, poke around, pry, research,

   book publisher - bibliographer, bibliophile, book collector, bookmaker, bookseller, bookworm, curator, editor, librarian, printer, publisher ,

   mace-bearer - bailiff, beadle, beagle, captain, commissioner, constable, deputy, detective, fed, federal, gendarme, inspector, lieutenant, marshal, mounted policeman,

   titanic - Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic,

   incarceration - blockade, blockading, captivity, circumscription, close arrest, confinement, cordoning, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, enclosure, envelopment, galleys,

   vituperation - abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, blame, calumny, censure, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective,

   testing - R and D, analytic, control, control experiment, controlled experiment, cut and try, cut-and-try, empirical, empiricism, examining, experiment, experimental, experimental design, experimental method, experimental proof,

   borax - alcohol, chemical, cleanser ,

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