quarry
abyss, aim, bank, big game, bonanza, bore, burrow, butt, by-end, by-purpose, chase, chasm, coal mine, colliery, cornucopia,
disquieting - agitating, alarming, annoying, awing, bothersome, breathtaking, chafing, charged, chilling, cliff-hanging, daunting, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, discouraging,
hail and speak - beat the drum, dip, flag, flash, glance, hail, kick, leer, nod, nudge, poke, salute, sign, signal, signalize,
burgomaster - alderman, chancellor, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councilman, elder, headman, legislator, magistrate, mayor, minister, minister of state, reeve,
file for - apply, ask, ask for, beg leave, bespeak, call for, crave, demand, desire, file, indent, order, request, requisition, way,
drop - abandon, abate, abdicate, abeyance, abjure, ablate, acknowledge defeat, act drop, advantage, asbestos, asbestos board, ascend, axe, backdrop, backslide,
half measures - centre, compromise, fence, happy medium, mean, medium, middle ground, moderation ,
lexicography - criticism, cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology, diagnostics, epigraphy, exegetics, hermeneutics, literary criticism, palaeography, physiognomy, semantics, semeiology, semeiotics, symptomatology ,
placative - conciliatory, irenic, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, propitiatory, soothing ,
startled - alarmed, alerted, aroused, bowled down, consternated, daunted, dismayed, disquieted, electrified, frightened, in a fright, in a funk, jarred, jolted, shaken,
bounce back - backfire, backlash, be reflected, be sent back, boom, boomerang, bounce, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, come around, come back, come round,
hail and speak - beat the drum, dip, flag, flash, glance, hail, kick, leer, nod, nudge, poke, salute, sign, signal, signalize,
burgomaster - alderman, chancellor, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councilman, elder, headman, legislator, magistrate, mayor, minister, minister of state, reeve,
file for - apply, ask, ask for, beg leave, bespeak, call for, crave, demand, desire, file, indent, order, request, requisition, way,
drop - abandon, abate, abdicate, abeyance, abjure, ablate, acknowledge defeat, act drop, advantage, asbestos, asbestos board, ascend, axe, backdrop, backslide,
half measures - centre, compromise, fence, happy medium, mean, medium, middle ground, moderation ,
lexicography - criticism, cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology, diagnostics, epigraphy, exegetics, hermeneutics, literary criticism, palaeography, physiognomy, semantics, semeiology, semeiotics, symptomatology ,
placative - conciliatory, irenic, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, propitiatory, soothing ,
startled - alarmed, alerted, aroused, bowled down, consternated, daunted, dismayed, disquieted, electrified, frightened, in a fright, in a funk, jarred, jolted, shaken,
bounce back - backfire, backlash, be reflected, be sent back, boom, boomerang, bounce, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, come around, come back, come round,