point of etiquette



amenities, civility, convention, courtliness, decencies, decorum, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good form, good manners, manners, mores, politeness, proprieties,

   forestall - anticipate, avert, bamboozle, bar, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, calculate on, cheat on, circumvent, conjure, corner, count on, debar,

   craziness - aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, brain damage, buffoonery, daftness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, eccentricity, fatuity, folly, foolery,

   given fact - axiom, case, circumstance, datum, fact, matter of fact, postulate ,

   grievously - abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly,

   papaya - berry, ebony, fruit, oak, orange, tree ,

   ad-libbing - ad lib, impromptu, improvisation, makeshift, stopgap ,

   pre-empt - adopt, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, colonize, commandeer, confiscate, conquer, enslave, expropriate, hog, indent, jump a claim, make free with,

   known by measurement - assessed, measured, plotted, quantified, valued ,

   minor in - confine, feature, follow, go in for, limit, narrow, pursue, read, restrict, specialize, specialize in ,

   put to press - bring out, engrave, get out, impress, imprint, issue, mimeograph, overprint, print, proof, prove, publish, pull, put out, reissue,