prolegomena



breakthrough, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, introduction, leap, overture, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition,

   home place - estate, farmstead, fireplace, fireside, foyer, grange, hacienda, hearth, home, homestead, household, m?©nage, place, ranch, roof ,

   source - adviser, ambition, announcer, annunciator, antecedent, aspiration, author, authority, authorship, basis, beginning, birthplace, bonanza, calling, cause,

   authentic - Christian, aboveboard, absolute, accepted, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, approved, authoritative, avant-garde, based on, candid, canonical, card-carrying,

   sagacity - acuity, acumen, acuteness, anticipation, astuteness, background, cogency, comprehension, contemplation, discernment, discretion, experience, far-sightedness, forecast, foreseeing,

   open-minded - accessible, amenable, disinterested, dispassionate, enlightened, equitable, fair, freethinking, hospitable, impressionable, indulgent, latitudinarian, lax, liberal, libertarian,

   nuclide - atom, ion, shell, tracer ,

   polemical - aggressive, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, factional, factious, ill-humoured,

   honey child - angel, babe, baby, cherub, chick, darling, dear, doll, duck, duckling, honey, lamb, love, lover, pet,

   floating stock - blue chip, equity, split, steel, stock, stocks ,

   junior college - academe, academia, college, college of engineering, community college, degree-granting institution, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal,