prime of life
adulthood, adultness, age of consent, bloom, driving age, early years, florescence, flower of age, flowering time, full age, full bloom, full growth, legal age, majority, manhood,
armada - RN, argosy, coast guard, division, escadrille, fleet, flotilla, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mosquito fleet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve,
smirching - darkening, shading, smirch, smudge, smut ,
friable - breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, delicate, fissile, flimsy, fragile, frail,
common sort - common people, commoner, commons, labourer, lower class, lumpen proletariat, middle class, peasantry, plain folks, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeeper, third estate, toiler, working class ,
nourishing - cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating,
choose rather - favour, incline, lean toward, please, prefer, rather, see fit, set before, tend toward ,
clump - accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, amble, array, assemble, bang, barge, bash, bat, batch, beating, belt, bilge,
undercoating - coat, coating, colour, colouring, covering, distemper, drier, dye, fresco, ground, medium, paint, painting, pigment, primer,
abolish - abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to naught, cancel, countermand, delete, demolish, destroy, disallow, do away with, eliminate, end,
grant remission - absolve, acquit, clear, decontaminate, discharge, dismiss, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, forgive, free, justify, let go, let off,
smirching - darkening, shading, smirch, smudge, smut ,
friable - breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, delicate, fissile, flimsy, fragile, frail,
common sort - common people, commoner, commons, labourer, lower class, lumpen proletariat, middle class, peasantry, plain folks, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeeper, third estate, toiler, working class ,
nourishing - cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating,
choose rather - favour, incline, lean toward, please, prefer, rather, see fit, set before, tend toward ,
clump - accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, amble, array, assemble, bang, barge, bash, bat, batch, beating, belt, bilge,
undercoating - coat, coating, colour, colouring, covering, distemper, drier, dye, fresco, ground, medium, paint, painting, pigment, primer,
abolish - abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to naught, cancel, countermand, delete, demolish, destroy, disallow, do away with, eliminate, end,
grant remission - absolve, acquit, clear, decontaminate, discharge, dismiss, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, forgive, free, justify, let go, let off,