mobilized
all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, booted and spurred, briefed, coached, cocked, equipped, familiarized, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness,
pull in pieces - atomize, cleave, demolish, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, fragment, pick to pieces, pulverize, rend, shatter, smash, split, sunder, take apart,
hatchery - birthplace, brooder, cradle, hotbed, nest, nursery, rookery ,
casting lots - gambling, play, playing, speculation, sporting ,
tiles - ceiling, eaves, housetop, lantern, overhead, penthouse, roof, roofing, rooftop, shingle, skylight, top ,
regional novel - dreadful, novel, short story, vignette ,
enter on - accept, assume, attack, attempt, begin, come out, dive into, embark upon, endeavour, engage in, enter, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get cracking,
turn turtle - capsize, careen, fall, fall flat, flounder, founder, go down, keel, keel over, list, lurch, overthrow, overturn, pitch, scuttle,
fashionable - a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, arbiter of fashion, avant-garde, chic, clotheshorse, contemporary, current, dandy, dashing, deb, exclusive, far out,
chauvinistic - biased, chauvinist, civic, coloured, doctrinaire, dogmatic, influenced, interested, jaundiced, jingoist, know-nothing, non-objective, one-sided, opinionated, partial,
self-governed - automated, automatic, autonomous, free, free-wheeling, independent, individualistic, neutral, non-aligned, non-partisan, self-acting, self-adjusting, self-contained, self-controlled, self-determined,
hatchery - birthplace, brooder, cradle, hotbed, nest, nursery, rookery ,
casting lots - gambling, play, playing, speculation, sporting ,
tiles - ceiling, eaves, housetop, lantern, overhead, penthouse, roof, roofing, rooftop, shingle, skylight, top ,
regional novel - dreadful, novel, short story, vignette ,
enter on - accept, assume, attack, attempt, begin, come out, dive into, embark upon, endeavour, engage in, enter, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get cracking,
turn turtle - capsize, careen, fall, fall flat, flounder, founder, go down, keel, keel over, list, lurch, overthrow, overturn, pitch, scuttle,
fashionable - a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, arbiter of fashion, avant-garde, chic, clotheshorse, contemporary, current, dandy, dashing, deb, exclusive, far out,
chauvinistic - biased, chauvinist, civic, coloured, doctrinaire, dogmatic, influenced, interested, jaundiced, jingoist, know-nothing, non-objective, one-sided, opinionated, partial,
self-governed - automated, automatic, autonomous, free, free-wheeling, independent, individualistic, neutral, non-aligned, non-partisan, self-acting, self-adjusting, self-contained, self-controlled, self-determined,