regimented



downtrodden, henpecked, oppressed, servile, slavish, submissive, uniform ,

   drudging - boring, grinding, hard-working, irksome, plodding, plugging, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, tedious, tiresome, tiring, working ,

   lie out of - alibi, apologize, excuse, squirm out of, worm out of ,

   bountifulness - abundance, affluence, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza, bounty, extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, free hand, freedom, full measure, fullness,

   washed out - achromatic, all in, anaemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bleary, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, colourless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale,

   crowning achievement - artefact, brainchild, child, coinage, composition, concoction, creation, creature, distillation, effect, essence, extract, fruit, handiwork, invention,

   cavalierly - abruptly, curtly, harshly, shortly ,

   dire - abominable, apocalyptic, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, base, beastly,

   late hour - eleventh hour, high time, last minute, small hours, tardiness ,

   crabby - beefing, bellyaching, bitching, complaining, crabbed, crabbing, cranky, croaking, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dour, envious,

   positive ray - X ray, beta ray, cathode ray, electron emission, gamma ray ,