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affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent character, appearances, artificiality, display, exteriors, external appearance, externals, false front, false show, fa?§ade, feigned belief,

   blindfolded - bedazzled, blind, blindfold, darkened, dazed, dazzled, dim-sighted, hoodwinked, insensible, mind-blind, myopic, near-sighted, obscured, purblind, short-sighted,

   stock-still - at a standstill, fixed, idle, immobile, motionless, out of commission, static, stationary, still, unemployed, unmoved ,

   meet requirements - answer, avail, bear, do, fill the bill, fulfil, get by, go around, hack it, hold, hold up, make the grade, meet, pass, pass muster,

   looming - about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, immediate, imminent, impending,

   helot - apple-polisher, ass-licker, backslapper, bondsman, brown-nose, brownie, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, concubine, courtier, creature, cringer, debt slave,

   empty view - air space, back country, clearance, clearing, desert, glade, outback, plain, prairie, steppe, terrain, territory, wilderness ,

   on tenterhooks - addled, agitated, anxious, apprehensive, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bothered, concerned, confounded, dazed, disquieted, disturbed, fearful,

   run back - back down, back out, disengage, draw back, fall back, give ground, go back, pull back, pull out, retire, retreat, withdraw ,

   tartar sauce - condiment, pepper, salt, sauce, spice ,

   restraint - abnegation, absolutism, abstinence, aloofness, aplomb, appropriateness, arrest, assurance, backwardness, balance, ban, bashfulness, blankness, block, blockage,