practical-mindedness
earthiness, positivism, practicality, pragmatism, rationality, realism, secularism ,
water flow - affluence, concourse, confluence, course, crosscurrent, current, downpour, drift, flow, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, onrush, outflow,
seamy - abhorrent, contemptible, dark, degenerate, degraded, depraved, derogatory, discreditable, dishonourable, disreputable, distasteful, foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous,
castle - acropolis, bastion, beachhead, bishop, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, chessman, citadel, court, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house,
unfledged - a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, at half cock, budding, callow, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, fledgling, fresh, green, green as grass, growing, half-baked,
marriage of convenience - bigamy, monogamy, polyandry, polygamy ,
present - accessible, accommodate, accord, acquaint, actual, adduce, adjacent, administer, advance, affect, afford, affront, aid, aim, aim at,
emergence - apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, break, breakout, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, deliverance, delivery, development, discharge, disclosure,
what is done - conformity, convention, etiquette, fashion, manner, manners, mores, observance, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, proprieties, ritual, social convention,
second - OK, abettor, abundant year, academic year, accept, accredit, acolyte, adjutant, admirer, advance, advocate, affirm, aficionado, agent, aid,
in a mess - all over, anarchic, balled up, chaotic, confused, in a bind, jumbled, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, on the spot, scattered, snafu, trouble, upside down ,
seamy - abhorrent, contemptible, dark, degenerate, degraded, depraved, derogatory, discreditable, dishonourable, disreputable, distasteful, foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous,
castle - acropolis, bastion, beachhead, bishop, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, chessman, citadel, court, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house,
unfledged - a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, at half cock, budding, callow, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, fledgling, fresh, green, green as grass, growing, half-baked,
marriage of convenience - bigamy, monogamy, polyandry, polygamy ,
present - accessible, accommodate, accord, acquaint, actual, adduce, adjacent, administer, advance, affect, afford, affront, aid, aim, aim at,
emergence - apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, break, breakout, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, deliverance, delivery, development, discharge, disclosure,
what is done - conformity, convention, etiquette, fashion, manner, manners, mores, observance, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, proprieties, ritual, social convention,
second - OK, abettor, abundant year, academic year, accept, accredit, acolyte, adjutant, admirer, advance, advocate, affirm, aficionado, agent, aid,
in a mess - all over, anarchic, balled up, chaotic, confused, in a bind, jumbled, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, on the spot, scattered, snafu, trouble, upside down ,