recoil
about the bush, antagonism, antipathy, avoid, avoidance, backfire, backlash, backlashing, backwash, bashfulness, baulk, beat around, beg the question, blanch, blench,
objectionable - abhorrent, abominable, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, censurable, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, exceptionable,
make a beginning - break in, get going, get off, start up, warm up ,
sermonizing - didactic, moral, preach, preaching, preachy, sermon ,
manfully - arduously, courageously, dauntlessly, gamely, hammer and tongs, hard, heart and soul, heroically, industriously, laboriously, like a man, pluckily, strenuously, the hard way, toilsomely,
inattentiveness - absent mindedness, carelessness, disregard, distraction, flippancy, inability, inadequacy, inadvertence, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, indifference, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, levity,
clayey - adobe, doughy, earthy, pasty, plastic ,
feminine caesura - accent, anapaest, beat, cadence, caesura, colon, counterpoint, dactyl, diaeresis, emphasis, foot, iambic, ictus, jingle, lilt,
bra - advocate, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier,
acquiescence - OK, acceptance, accession, accommodation, accord, accordance, adaptation, adjustment, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeableness, agreement, agreement in principle, alacrity,
pry out - cross-examine, cross-interrogate, cross-question, dig out, extract information, ferret out, fish out, go over, grill, grub up, hunt out, inquisition, make inquisition, roast, root out,
make a beginning - break in, get going, get off, start up, warm up ,
sermonizing - didactic, moral, preach, preaching, preachy, sermon ,
manfully - arduously, courageously, dauntlessly, gamely, hammer and tongs, hard, heart and soul, heroically, industriously, laboriously, like a man, pluckily, strenuously, the hard way, toilsomely,
inattentiveness - absent mindedness, carelessness, disregard, distraction, flippancy, inability, inadequacy, inadvertence, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, indifference, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, levity,
clayey - adobe, doughy, earthy, pasty, plastic ,
feminine caesura - accent, anapaest, beat, cadence, caesura, colon, counterpoint, dactyl, diaeresis, emphasis, foot, iambic, ictus, jingle, lilt,
bra - advocate, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier,
acquiescence - OK, acceptance, accession, accommodation, accord, accordance, adaptation, adjustment, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeableness, agreement, agreement in principle, alacrity,
pry out - cross-examine, cross-interrogate, cross-question, dig out, extract information, ferret out, fish out, go over, grill, grub up, hunt out, inquisition, make inquisition, roast, root out,