common ancestry



affiliation, alliance, ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brotherhood, connection, consanguinity, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side,









   good graces - favour, fellow feeling, goodwill, harmony, in, rapport, regard, respect, sympathy ,

   condolence - aid and comfort, assurance, benevolence, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, consolation, easement, encouragement, favour, feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace,

   endorse - OK, abet, accede to, accept, accord to, accredit, admire, advocate, affirm, agree to, aid and abet, amen, approve, approve of, assent,

   perforce - come what may, inevitably, necessarily ,

   in slow tempo - deliberately, easily, gently, haltingly, leisurely, moderately, reluctantly, slow, slowly ,

   brindled - banded, barred, brindle, dapple, marbled, mottled, speckled, spotty, streaked, striated, striped, tabby, variegated ,

   fad word - byword, catchword, cry, shibboleth, slogan ,

   blank despondency - death wish, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, downer, hopelessness, low spirits, lowness, malaise, oppression, pessimism ,

   suffocating - airless, breathless, censorship, close, crackdown, crushing, humid, ill-ventilated, muggy, nose-piercing, oppressive, penetrating, pungent, putting down, quashing,

   pre-teens - boyhood, childhood, maidenhead ,