polish up
brush up, cram, fix, freshen, furbish, get up, polish, refresh the memory, renovate, repair, retouch, review, revive, shine, spruce up,
irrelevant - adrift, alien, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, dinky, dispensable, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, gratuitous, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen,
hubby - husband, lord, man, mate ,
locking in - holding, inhibition, keeping, maintenance, preservation, repression, suppression, tenacity ,
Babbitt - Middle American, anal character, boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, formalist,
of common source - akin, cognate, kindred, related ,
blockading - blockade, circumscription, confinement, encirclement, envelopment, imprisonment, incarceration, inclusion, investment, quarantine, siege ,
carbon-dioxide foam - acid, carbon tetrachloride, extinguisher, fire hydrant, foam, hook-and-ladder, hydrant, snorkel, soda, sprinkler, water, wet blanket ,
incompetent - awkward, base, blank cartridge, bungling, castrato, clumsy, defective, deficient, disqualified, dud, dull tool, eunuch, failing, found wanting, gauche,
mathematical linguistics - derivation, etymology, grammar, linguistics, morphology, palaeography, philology, phonetics, phonology, semantics ,
pour water on - asphyxiate, bottle up, censor, clamp down on, cork, crack down on, crush, damp, drown, extinguish, gag, hold down, jump on, keep down, kill,
hubby - husband, lord, man, mate ,
locking in - holding, inhibition, keeping, maintenance, preservation, repression, suppression, tenacity ,
Babbitt - Middle American, anal character, boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, formalist,
of common source - akin, cognate, kindred, related ,
blockading - blockade, circumscription, confinement, encirclement, envelopment, imprisonment, incarceration, inclusion, investment, quarantine, siege ,
carbon-dioxide foam - acid, carbon tetrachloride, extinguisher, fire hydrant, foam, hook-and-ladder, hydrant, snorkel, soda, sprinkler, water, wet blanket ,
incompetent - awkward, base, blank cartridge, bungling, castrato, clumsy, defective, deficient, disqualified, dud, dull tool, eunuch, failing, found wanting, gauche,
mathematical linguistics - derivation, etymology, grammar, linguistics, morphology, palaeography, philology, phonetics, phonology, semantics ,
pour water on - asphyxiate, bottle up, censor, clamp down on, cork, crack down on, crush, damp, drown, extinguish, gag, hold down, jump on, keep down, kill,