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awaken, correct, debunk, disabuse, disappoint, disenchant, disillusion, enlighten, expose, let in on, put straight, set right, set straight, show up, tell the truth,

   coup?© - car, carriage, dance, step ,

   adumbration - augury, echo, emblem, foreshadow, hint, indication, omen, outline, portent, prefiguration, promise, reflection, reflex, shade, shadow,

   shut fast - airtight, close, compact, fast, firm, hermetic, lightproof, sealed, snug, staunch, tight, waterproof, watertight, windproof ,

   termed - named, styled, titled ,

   copperplate print - block, cut, engraving, etching, impress, impression, imprint, lithograph, negative, print, vignette, woodblock, woodcut ,

   intelligibility - clarity, clear coast, clear road, ease, easiness, easy going, effortlessness, expressiveness, facileness, facility, freedom, lack of hindrance, meaningfulness, meatiness, pithiness,

   bone house - barrow, burial, catacombs, cenotaph, crypt, deep six, dolmen, grave, mausoleum, pit, pyramid, reliquary, resting place, sepulchre, shrine,

   wrong-headed - asinine, baulky, beef-brained, beef-witted, bovine, bullheaded, cantankerous, cloddish, contrary, crass, cross-grained, dense, difficult, doltish, dullard,

   armed combat - attack, battle, belligerence, bloodshed, combat, fighting, hostilities, military operations, state of war, war, warring, wartime ,

   oblate spheroid - ball, balloon, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, bubble, bulb, ellipsoid, globe, globule, gob, gobbet, knob, knot,