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fail, fall short, follow, not compare, serve, want ,

   get the floor - constitute, decree, enact, filibuster, kill, legislate, lobby, ordain, pass, pigeon-hole, pocket, put through, rail road, table, veto ,

   mare - alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, champaign, champaign country, charger, coastal plain, colt, courser, cow, critter,

   highly considered - admired, adored, esteemed, honoured, prestigious, prized, respected, revered, valued, well-thought-of ,

   airily - any old way, anyhow, carelessly, cheerfully, clumsily, gaily, gladly, haphazardly, happily, heedlessly, hit or miss, hopefully, joyfully, lightly, messily,

   dashingly - daringly, exquisitely, neatly ,

   cease resistance - back down, cave in, give ground, give in, give up, give way, yield ,

   hair-splitter - nitpicker, pettifogger, prevaricator, quibbler ,

   kinsman - ancestry, blood, blood relative, brother, clansman, cognate, collateral, connections, distaff side, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, kin, kindred,

   accept for gospel - accept, believe, buy, credit, receive, swallow, take for granted, trust ,

   catalyst - agent, agitator, agitprop, alterer, author, beginner, catalysis, catalytic agent, causer, creator, decay, demagogue, dialysis, dissociation, effector,