middle-class type
Babbitt, Middle American, bourgeois, burgher, conformist, formalist, organization man, parrot, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, sheep, square, teeny-bopper ,
detestation - abomination, anathema, animosity, antipathy, aversion, bigotry, bugbear, despite, dislike, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, infamy,
faint praise - belittling, comedown, contempt, depreciation, derogation, detraction, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, indignity, knocking, lukewarm support, minimizing, putting down,
pessary - bag, contraceptive, diaphragm, pill, prophylactic, rubber, skin ,
faintly - barely, delicately, gently, hardly, imperfectly, insignificantly, lightly, little, low, minimally, minutely, pianissimo, piano, scarcely, slightly,
piece of silver - coin, crown, doubloon, ducat, eagle, gold piece, guinea, piece, sovereign, specie ,
act of grace - benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, courtesy, favour, good deed, good turn, grace, kindness, labour of love, mercy, obligation, office,
act upon - act on, affect, focus on, get with it, go, influence, manoeuvre, operate on, proceed, take steps, treat, work on ,
feature editor - columnist, correspondent, cub reporter, editor, gazetteer, journalist, leg man, newsman, newspaperman, publicist, reader, reporter, rewrite man, sob sister ,
proton reaction - atomization, bombardment, breeding, bullet, chain reaction, cleavage, dissociation, fission, ionization, nuclear fission, stimulation, target ,
struggler - battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duellist,
faint praise - belittling, comedown, contempt, depreciation, derogation, detraction, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, indignity, knocking, lukewarm support, minimizing, putting down,
pessary - bag, contraceptive, diaphragm, pill, prophylactic, rubber, skin ,
faintly - barely, delicately, gently, hardly, imperfectly, insignificantly, lightly, little, low, minimally, minutely, pianissimo, piano, scarcely, slightly,
piece of silver - coin, crown, doubloon, ducat, eagle, gold piece, guinea, piece, sovereign, specie ,
act of grace - benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, courtesy, favour, good deed, good turn, grace, kindness, labour of love, mercy, obligation, office,
act upon - act on, affect, focus on, get with it, go, influence, manoeuvre, operate on, proceed, take steps, treat, work on ,
feature editor - columnist, correspondent, cub reporter, editor, gazetteer, journalist, leg man, newsman, newspaperman, publicist, reader, reporter, rewrite man, sob sister ,
proton reaction - atomization, bombardment, breeding, bullet, chain reaction, cleavage, dissociation, fission, ionization, nuclear fission, stimulation, target ,
struggler - battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duellist,