common speech



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









   retire from office - abdicate, give up, leave, pension off, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, vacate, withdraw ,

   dynastic - imperial, imperious, kingly, majestic, monarchical, princely, purple, queenly, regal, royal, sovereign ,

   catcalling - banter, bantering, derisive, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, jeering, kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, panning,

   modern man - comer, fledgling, modern, modernist, neologism, parvenu, stripling, upstart ,

   make an entry - balance, book, calendar, calibrate, capitalize, carry, carry over, carve, catalogue, chalk, chalk up, charge off, check in, chronicle, close out,

   only - absolute, after a fashion, alone, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, barely, but, celibate,

   trawler - boat, canoe, cruiser, drifter, ferry, fisherman, freighter, jigger, ship, tanker, whaler ,

   sermonize - descant, dilate, discourse, discuss, evangelize, expatiate, explain, exposit, expound, harangue, hold forth, lecture, moralize, point a moral, preach,

   book cover - backing, binding, bookbinding, bookcase, case, cover, gathering, jacket, lining, saddle stitching, sewing, signature, smashing, stamping, trimming,

   eternity - a better place, aeon, afterlife, age, ages, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, better world, blue moon, boundlessness, ceaselessness, century, constancy, continuance, durability,