run counter to - antagonize, clash, collide, conflict, confute, contradict, contrast with, controvert, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countervail, cross, go against, interfere,
examining - analytic, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, investigative, investigatory, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic ,
borscht - bisque, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, gazpacho, potage, pur?©e, soup, stock, vichyssoise ,
direction - action, actuation, address, administration, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, agency, angle, animation, arrow, avenue, bearing, blaze,
overemphasize - accent, accentuate, belabour, carry too far, dwell on, emphasize, exaggerate, exhaust, give emphasis to, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, harp on, highlight, italicize,
testiness - bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, excitability, fractiousness, huffiness, irascibility, irritability, meanness,
play with - brood, consider, contemplate, dabble, dally, debate, deliberate, digest, fiddle, fidget, flirt, fool, fool around, horse around, idle,
oxidation - acidification, biodegradability, blazing, blistering, branding, breakup, burning, carbonation, carbonization, catalysis, cauterization, combustion, corrosion, corruption, cracking,
unorthodoxy - aberration, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, contrariety, contrast, defectiveness, delusion, departure, deviancy,
fire of genius - Apollo, Muse, afflatus, creativity, daemon, deity, genius, god, goddess, inspiration, poesy, poetry, soul, spirit, talent ,
examining - analytic, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, investigative, investigatory, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic ,
borscht - bisque, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, gazpacho, potage, pur?©e, soup, stock, vichyssoise ,
direction - action, actuation, address, administration, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, agency, angle, animation, arrow, avenue, bearing, blaze,
overemphasize - accent, accentuate, belabour, carry too far, dwell on, emphasize, exaggerate, exhaust, give emphasis to, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, harp on, highlight, italicize,
testiness - bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, excitability, fractiousness, huffiness, irascibility, irritability, meanness,
play with - brood, consider, contemplate, dabble, dally, debate, deliberate, digest, fiddle, fidget, flirt, fool, fool around, horse around, idle,
oxidation - acidification, biodegradability, blazing, blistering, branding, breakup, burning, carbonation, carbonization, catalysis, cauterization, combustion, corrosion, corruption, cracking,
unorthodoxy - aberration, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, contrariety, contrast, defectiveness, delusion, departure, deviancy,
fire of genius - Apollo, Muse, afflatus, creativity, daemon, deity, genius, god, goddess, inspiration, poesy, poetry, soul, spirit, talent ,