pretext
acting, affectation, alibi, allege, alternative, appearance, attitudinising, avow, bluff, bluffing, camouflage, cheating, choice, claim, cloak,
link up - connect, follow, join, link, mate, meet, team
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oil heat - burning, fever, heating, superheat, warmth ,
type-cutting - burr, chiselling, engraving, etching, hatching, incision, inscription, line, lining, marking, score, scratch, slash, slashing, stipple,
foretelling - apocalypse, apocalyptic, cast, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreseeing, foresight, forewarning, guesswork, omen, ominous, oracular, prediction, predictive,
logbook - address book, album, annual, balance sheet, bankbook, blotter, books, calendar, cash-book, catalogue, diary, diptych, docket, inventory, journal,
association test - IQ, Rorschach test, aptitude test, inkblot test, intelligence quotient, intelligence test, psychological test, test ,
lift a finger - act on, approach, assay, attempt, chance, engage, essay, get with it, go, manoeuvre, offer, proceed, take steps, try, undertake,
sternly - firmly, grimly, harshly, rigidly, rigorously, roughly, severely, sharply, strictly ,
razor - edge tool, hatchet, jackknife, pick, tool ,
gamely - audaciously, boldly, bravely, chivalrously, courageously, daringly, dauntlessly, fearlessly, gallantly, hardily, heroically, intrepidly, knightly, like a man, like a soldier,
oil heat - burning, fever, heating, superheat, warmth ,
type-cutting - burr, chiselling, engraving, etching, hatching, incision, inscription, line, lining, marking, score, scratch, slash, slashing, stipple,
foretelling - apocalypse, apocalyptic, cast, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreseeing, foresight, forewarning, guesswork, omen, ominous, oracular, prediction, predictive,
logbook - address book, album, annual, balance sheet, bankbook, blotter, books, calendar, cash-book, catalogue, diary, diptych, docket, inventory, journal,
association test - IQ, Rorschach test, aptitude test, inkblot test, intelligence quotient, intelligence test, psychological test, test ,
lift a finger - act on, approach, assay, attempt, chance, engage, essay, get with it, go, manoeuvre, offer, proceed, take steps, try, undertake,
sternly - firmly, grimly, harshly, rigidly, rigorously, roughly, severely, sharply, strictly ,
razor - edge tool, hatchet, jackknife, pick, tool ,
gamely - audaciously, boldly, bravely, chivalrously, courageously, daringly, dauntlessly, fearlessly, gallantly, hardily, heroically, intrepidly, knightly, like a man, like a soldier,