need for



bare necessities, call for, demand, desideratum, essential, indispensable, must, necessaries, necessity, need, occasion, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, requisition,

   battle-axe - axe, bitch, fishwife, fury, hag, hatchet, scold, shrew, spitfire, termagant, tigress, virago, vixen, witch ,

   stove in - breach, break in, break through, burst in, bust in, cave in, rupture, split ,

   boom shot - close up, long shot, motion picture, pan shot, retake, shot, take ,

   intellectuals - capacity, consciousness, faculty, parts, senses ,

   ungentlemanly - boorish, caddish, coarse, crude, ill-bred, inconsiderate, insensitive, loutish, nasty, offensive, tactless, unfeminine, ungentle, unladylike, unrefined,

   cryptic - abstruse, arcane, between the lines, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, covert, dark, dormant, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive,

   shifting path - aberration, bend, bias, corner, crook, curve, declination, departure, detour, digression, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift,

   sweet shop - antique store, apothecary, book store, candy store, chemist, cigar store, clothiers, clothing store, confectionery, dress shop, dry goods store, florists, fur salon, furniture store, gift shop,

   sainted - aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized, asleep, at rest, awesome, beatified, bereft of life, big, blessed, breathless, called home, canonized, carrion, celestial,

   keep mum - bosom, classify, conceal, hold out on, keep back, keep from, keep quiet, play dumb, secrete, shut up, tongue, veil, withhold ,