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about, around, just about, near, nigh ,









   atomic ray - X ray, beam, gamma ray, patch, pencil, photon, radiation, ray, ribbon, solar rays, streak, stream, streamer, ultraviolet ray ,

   misquoted - biased, cooked, doctored, garbled, inauthentic, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, perverted, slanted, spurious, strained, tortured, twisted, unauthentic,

   syncopation - acid rock, andante tempo, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, beat, bebop, bop, compound time, country rock, dance music, dances, duple time, folk rock, hard rock, hot jazz,

   triple plume - coronet, crown, diadem, ermine, orb, purple, regalia, rod, sceptre, seal, signet, tiara ,

   noodle - bean, belfry, brain, brow, chump, conk, crown, dome, dope, dumpling, dunderhead, fettuccine, grey matter, head, headpiece,

   whipping boy - fall guy, goat, scapegoat, target ,

   playing - acting, aping, betting, bickering, blinking, buffoonery, business, casting lots, characterization, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dancing, dumb show,

   this day - here, newness, now, on the spot, times, today, tonight ,

   bothering - aggravating, annoyance, annoying, baffling, bewildering, bothersome, disconcerting, dismaying, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, exasperating, galling, harassing, harassment,

   sketching - black and white, charcoal, delineation, drafting, drawing ,