understandably



clear, clearly, comprehensibly, definitely, distinctly, expressly, plainly, simply ,

   open an offensive - advance, bear down on, drive, flank, gas, infiltrate, push, strike, thrust ,

   cussed - baleful, bearish, bitchy, blasted, blessed, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, confounded, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cursed,

   feel sorry for - bleed, commiserate, feel for, pity, regret, sympathize with, weep for ,

   inversion - about-face, addition, approximation, differentiation, division, equation, evolution, extrapolation, integration, interpolation, involution, multiplication, notation, practice, proportion,

   ridge runner - backwoodsman, bushman, cracker, forester, frontiersman, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, red neck, rustic, woodsman ,

   worm out of - alibi, alibi out of, apologize for, arouse, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, call out, call up, catechize, cover with excuses, creep out of, deduce, derive,

   acquitted - absolved, blotted, cancelled, condoned, discharged, disregarded, exculpated, excused, exonerated, expended, forgiven, forgotten, hired, indulged, liquidated,

   killjoy - Cassandra, calamity howler, cynic, damp, dampener, damper, defeatist, grouch, grump, malcontent, nihilist, pessimist, prophet of doom, seek-sorrow, sourpuss,

   sinew - amperage, arm, authority, backbone, beef, beefiness, bite, black power, brawn, brawniness, brute force, charge, charisma, clout, cogency,

   involute - circuitous, cirrus, coil, complex, corkscrew, curl, curlicue, helix, kink, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, ringlet, roll, roundabout,