perceptive



acute, alert, alive, alive to, all-knowing, apprehending, apprehensive, astute, attentive, aware, cogent, cognizant, comprehending, conscious, discerning,

   fall into decay - break up, canker, corrupt, crumble, decay, decompose, disintegrate, fall to pieces, fester, gangrene, go to pieces, mildew, mortify, mould, moulder,

   wilderness - Death Valley, Gordian knot, Sahara, air space, back country, back of beyond, backwoods, barren, barren land, boon docks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, can of worms,

   predatory - all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, bloodsucking, carnivorous, despoiling, extortionate, grasping, greedy, larcenous, looting, lupine, marauding, parasitic, pillaging,

   ill-starred - baleful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister, star-crossed, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy,

   constitutional validity - due process, jurisdiction, justice, lawfulness, legitimacy, scope, validity ,

   pestle and mortar - apparatus, crucible, test tube ,

   the defunct - ashes, body, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, dead, deceased, departed, dust, earth, late lamented,

   arrogate - adopt, annex, appropriate, assume, assume command, colonize, commandeer, confiscate, conquer, encroach, enslave, expropriate, grab, hog, indent,

   know-it-all - Narcissus, aggressively self-confident, braggart, bumptious, chesty, cocky, conceited, egocentric, egoist, egotist, immodest, individualist, narcissist, no modest violet, obtrusive,

   plushiness - delicacy, gentleness, leniency, mellowness, pulpiness, tenderness ,