misfire



abort, abortion, abortive attempt, blow up, come a cropper, come to nothing, dud, explode, fail, fail miserably, failure, fall through, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out,

   cross-pollen - fertilize, fructify, impregnate, inseminate ,

   impressment - abduction, annexation, attachment, call, call-up, collectivization, commandeering, compulsory military service, confiscation, conscription, crimping, distress, draft, draft call, drafting,

   virility - adulthood, adultness, age of consent, amperage, authority, beef, black power, brute force, charge, charisma, clout, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive,

   impressed - affected, agonized, carved, confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, devoured by,

   private knowledge - acquaintance, corpus, data, datum, experience, expertise, facts, familiarity, information, intelligence, intimacy, ken, self-knowledge, technique ,

   fish-pond - aquarium, artificial lake, bayou lake, cistern, dam, dead water, dike, farm pond, freshwater lake, glacial lake, inland sea, lagoon, lake, landlocked water, loch,

   not seldom - again and again, commonly, frequently, habitually, often, ordinarily, repeatedly, routinely, usually ,

   feminine caesura - accent, anapaest, beat, cadence, caesura, colon, counterpoint, dactyl, diaeresis, emphasis, foot, iambic, ictus, jingle, lilt,

   eddy current - AC, DC, alternating current, current, cycle, direct current, electric current, juice ,

   white cake - cake, gingerbread, jumble ,