quadrivium



area, course, curriculum, discipline, elective, field, humanities, liberal arts, major, minor, refresher course, seminar, speciality, study, subject ,

   compensatory - apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensative, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory, lucrative, moneymaking, offsetting,

   prolix - all jaw, blah, broken-record, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, diffuse, dispensable, dreary, dry, dull, dusty, effusive, endless,

   make a racket - brawl, clamour, noise, raise hell, roar, row, whoop it up ,

   qualms - better self, compunction, fear, qualm, scruple, throes ,

   kaleidoscopic - able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, blurred, blurry, changeable, chaotic, characterless, chequered, colourful, confused,

   perching bird - bird, chick, cygnet, dove, eagle, fledgling, fowl, migrant, nestling, owl, peacock, pigeon, songbird, squab, stormy petrel,

   writing system - Babylonian, Gothic, Greek, alphabet, letter, letters, palaeography, punctuation, runic, runic alphabet, script, syllabary, written character ,

   oil painting - canvas, colouring, finger painting, illumination, illustration, monochrome, oil, painting, portraiture, tempera, wash, water ,

   splurge - access, binge, blazon, bravura, brilliancy, budget, burst, cost, cost out, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, daring, dash, dazzle,

   confessor - cassock, father, padre, penitent, priest, prodigal son ,