the nod - John Hancock, OK, Roman candle, acceptance, affirmation, alarm, approbation, approval, authorization, beacon, bell, blinker, buoy, certification, confirmation,
final whistle - arrest, bell, check, checkmate, cut-off, dead stop, deadlock, end, ending, full stop, gun, halt, lockout, stalemate, stand,
giant of learning - academician, classicist, clerk, genius, humanist, learned man, mastermind, philologist, philosopher, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, student ,
local - aboriginal, aborigine, adjoining, affiliate, alehouse, arm, baggage car, baggage train, bar, bar-room, barrel house, beer garden, beer parlour, bistro, blind tiger,
migratory bird - bird, chick, cygnet, dove, eagle, fledgling, fowl, migrant, nestling, owl, peacock, pigeon, songbird, squab, stormy petrel,
wireless set - cabinet, chassis, console, housing, radio, radio receiver, receiver, set, wireless ,
the church - call, care of souls, church, holy orders, ministry, pastorate, priesthood, pulpit, rabbinate, vocation ,
weed-choked - dense, exuberant, flourishing, gone to seed, gross, heavy, impenetrable, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, rank, riotous, thick, weedy ,
numeration - accounting, census, counting, enumeration, foliation, measurement, numbering, quantification, telling ,
bureaucratic - absolute, administrative, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, directing, executive, fascist,
final whistle - arrest, bell, check, checkmate, cut-off, dead stop, deadlock, end, ending, full stop, gun, halt, lockout, stalemate, stand,
giant of learning - academician, classicist, clerk, genius, humanist, learned man, mastermind, philologist, philosopher, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, student ,
local - aboriginal, aborigine, adjoining, affiliate, alehouse, arm, baggage car, baggage train, bar, bar-room, barrel house, beer garden, beer parlour, bistro, blind tiger,
migratory bird - bird, chick, cygnet, dove, eagle, fledgling, fowl, migrant, nestling, owl, peacock, pigeon, songbird, squab, stormy petrel,
wireless set - cabinet, chassis, console, housing, radio, radio receiver, receiver, set, wireless ,
the church - call, care of souls, church, holy orders, ministry, pastorate, priesthood, pulpit, rabbinate, vocation ,
weed-choked - dense, exuberant, flourishing, gone to seed, gross, heavy, impenetrable, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, rank, riotous, thick, weedy ,
numeration - accounting, census, counting, enumeration, foliation, measurement, numbering, quantification, telling ,
bureaucratic - absolute, administrative, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, directing, executive, fascist,