common speech



austerity, candour, directness, frankness, household words, naturalness, openness, plain English, plainness, severity, simplicity, slang, vernacular ,









   prosperous - abounding in riches, affluent, appropriate, assured of success, auspicious, benign, benignant, booming, comfortable, comfortably situated, coming, convenient, crowned with success, desirable, disgustingly rich,

   scarification - birthmark, blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, check, cicatrix, cut, dapple, discolouration, dot, earmark, engraving, flick, freckle,

   move off - buzz off, decline, depart, die away, diminish, drift away, dwindle, ebb, exit, fade, get along, get away, get off, get on, go,

   death throes - agony, death struggle, death-watch, deathbed, extremity ,

   work out - accommodate, accomplish, achieve, add, adjust, amplify, answer, arrange, attain, attend, become of, bottom, bring off, calculate, carry into effect,

   moral censor - censor, conscience, grace, superego ,

   skin-diving - bingo, checkers, chess, game, sport ,

   validation - John Hancock, OK, acceptance, affirmation, approbation, approval, assurance, attestation, authorization, backing, certification, check, collation, confirmation, determination,

   securely - fast, firmly, safe, surely, tight ,

   antediluvian - Gothic, Methuselah, Stone Age man, Victorian, aboriginal, aborigine, age-old, aged, ancient, anthropoid, antiquated, antique, ape-man, archaic, back number,