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badgered, baited, bedevilled, beset, dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hounded, needled, persecuted, pestered, plagued, ragged, tormented,

   golf course - common, course, court, diamond, fairway, field, green, gridiron, grounds, gym, gymnasium, infield, lawn, outfield, oval,

   doubtfully - askance, in suspense, salt, suspicious ,

   rains - monsoon, rainy day, stormy weather, wet ,

   weary waste - Death Valley, Sahara, brush, bush, desert, desolation, dust bowl, heath, outback, salt flat, waste, wasteland, wild, wilderness ,

   act upon - act on, affect, focus on, get with it, go, influence, manoeuvre, operate on, proceed, take steps, treat, work on ,

   eye-opening - amazing, apocalyptic, astonishing, breathtaking, educational, overwhelming, revealing, showing, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, surprising, talkative ,

   lofting - elevation, erection, raising, rearing, uplifting ,

   suspense story - allegory, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk-tale, ghost story, horse opera, legend, love story, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, parable,

   insentience - anaesthesia, analgesia, callousness, deadness, dullness, insensibility, insensitivity, narcosis, numbness, pins and needles, thick skin, unfeeling ,

   delve for - angle for, ask for, beat about, fish for, follow, gun for, hunt, look, look for, look up, pursue, quest, search, see to, seek,