time lag



afterthought, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, day, delay, delayed reaction, detention, double take, dragging, fateful moment, halt, hang-up, hindrance,

   dismemberment - confinement, deprivation, gauntlet, hard labour, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, picketing, rack, separation, torment, torture, undoing ,

   diamagnetic - magnetic, polar, repellent, repelling, repulsive ,

   patisserie - Danish pastry, baklava, cream puff, dowdy, pastry, pasty, patty, patty-shell, pie, puff, quiche, rosette, strudel, tart, tipsy cake,

   grizzled - argent, ashen, ashy, chalky, dapple, dapple-grey, dappled, dappled-grey, dingy, dismal, dove-coloured, dove-grey, dreary, dull, dusty,

   propagandist - agitprop, apostle, evangelist, indoctrination ,

   hoopla - ballyhoo, blurb, bright light, celebration, celebrity, common knowledge, conviviality, cry, currency, daylight, elation, exposure, exultation, fame, famousness,

   cantankerous - bad-tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty,

   bray - abrade, atomize, bark, bawl, bay, beat, beep, belch, bell, bellow, blare, blast, bleat, blow, blow the horn,

   fixture - accession, accessory, accompaniment, accoutrements, addenda, addendum, addition, additive, adjunct, annex, annexation, appanage, apparatus, appendage, appliance,

   instillation - conditioning, implantation, impregnation, impression, indoctrination, infiltration, infusion, inoculation, marination, penetration, permeation, pervasion, saturation, soaking, suffusion ,