self-instructed



autodidactic, educated, learned ,

   permeated - awash, bathed, crawling, creeping, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded, honeycombed, immersed,

   fanaticism - agitation, authoritarianism, baulkiness, bias, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bluster, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bullheadedness, cacophony, chaos,

   hustling - adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, agile, ambitious, breakneck, bustling, busy, dashing, driving, dynamic, enterprising, expeditious, express, fallen,

   assonance - alliteration, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle, jingle-jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme,

   rite of confession - acknowledgement, admission, avowal, concession, confession, shrift ,

   telescope - abbreviate, abridge, abstract, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, binoculars, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, crush,

   dazed - addled, apish, asinine, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, batty, beat, bedazzled, beguiled, besotted, blindfold, blindfolded, brainless, buffoonish,

   mushroom - algae, ball, balloon, bead, bean, blossom, blow up, bracken, brew, brown algae, burgeon, burst, climber, creeper, detonate,

   settle upon - account for, accredit with, acknowledge, apply to, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attribute to, blame, blame for, blame on, bless with, bring home to, charge on, charge to,

   ulceration - abscess, blister, boil, bunion, canker, carbuncle, chancre, chilblain, felon, fester, festering, gathering, lesion, pile, pimple,