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Highness, Lady, Lordship, Majesty ,

   five-and-ten - boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, general store, house, mail-order house,

   give pain - afflict, agonize, ail, bite, burn, chafe, convulse, crucify, cut, distress, fester, fret, gall, gnaw, grate,

   old song - banality, bromide, chestnut, commonplace, corn, old saw, old story, platitude, prose, reiteration ,

   polar data - bit, bug, command, computer program, data, error, information, input data, instructions, message, noise, output, play, signal ,

   cellular - marsupial, unicellular, vesicular ,

   praetorian guard - bodyguard, convoy, escort, guard, safeguard, yeoman ,

   take soundings - fathom, plumb, sound, water ,

   benevolent despotism - absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, monarchy, tyranny ,

   veer off - avert, bear off, ease off, glance, go off, haw, head off, jib, sheer off, shunt, shy, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle,

   leak - abyss, aperture, arroyo, babble, babbling, be indiscreet, be revealed, be unguarded, become known, betray, betray a confidence, betrayal, blab, blabber, blabbering,