the supreme fiction



poesy, rhyme, song, verse ,

   potato race - dash, derby, heat, lap, marathon, race, regatta, relay, run, sprint, walk ,

   handmaid - agent, appliance, au pair girl, ayah, biddy, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, contrivance, cook, creature, device, duenna, dummy, dupe,

   save and except - aside from, bar, barring, beside, ex, except, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, leaving out, let alone, omitting, outside of, precluding, save,

   bib nozzle - nose, nozzle, rose, snout ,

   clearness - ceiling, chastity, clarity, coherence, comeliness, consistency, definition, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, evidence, felicity, finish,

   pride and joy - boast, catch, diamond, find, gem, godsend, jewel, pearl, plum, pride, prize, treasure, trophy, windfall, winner ,

   fabulousness - abandon, exaggeration, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremism, extremity, gluttony, hyperbole, hypertrophy, incontinence, intemperance, over-much, overgrowth,

   recital - account, address, after-dinner speech, assignment, band concert, chalk talk, chamber concert, concert, copy, critique, debate, declamation, description, diatribe, discourse,

   good health - fine fettle, good shape, healthiness, mint condition, soundness, top shape ,

   unsanitary - bad, bad for, contaminated, foul, harmful, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, noisome, noxious, pathogenic, pestiferous, polluted, septic, tainted,