predicament



adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, baffle, bafflement, bearings, bewilderment, bind, blight, blood, bother, box, bracket,

   double-crossing - fifth column, quisling, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, turncoat ,

   dahlia - colour, flower, pigment, plum, purple ,

   shakedown cruise - audition, course, crossing, cruise, dry run, hearing, leg, passage, practice, rehearsal, road test, run, sail, shakedown, test flight,

   stand drinks - maintain, set up, stand, subsidize, support, treat ,

   drawn - alike, at par, au pair, careworn, commensurate, dragged out, drawn out, elongated, equal, equalized, even, exhausted, extended, fatigued, fifty-fifty,

   space rocket - apogee, burn, capsule, docking, injection, insertion, lunar module, missile, module, orbit, perigee, re-entry, rocket, space capsule, spacecraft,

   soil mechanics - geodetics, geography, geology, geophysics, mineralogy, physiography, soil science ,

   widen the distance - decline, die away, diminish, drift away, dwindle, ebb, fade, go, go away, move away, recede, retire, retreat, shrink, sink,

   free for nothing - charitable, complimentary, eleemosynary, for love, for nothing, free, freebie, given, gratis, gratuitous, on the house ,

   whopper - hulk, jumbo, libel, myth, slander, whale, yarn ,