tentative contact - brush, caress, contact, glance, graze, impingement, kiss, nudge, rub, touch, touching
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slow as molasses - ambling, cautious, circumspect, crawling, creeping, deliberate, easy, faltering, flagging, gentle, gradual, halting, idle, indolent, languid,
high principles - character, decency, fairness, goodness, honesty, honour, integrity, justice, nobility, principles, purity, rectitude, righteousness, virtue ,
bonds of harmony - accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, brotherly love, charity, communion, community, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence, empathy,
elimination - abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annihilation, annulment, assassination, bloody murder, bumping-off, cast-off, castaway, choking, choking off, cleaning out, clearance,
analytic - a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, acute, algebraic, analytical, categorical, classificatory, conditional, deductive, deep, dialectic, discursive, enumerative, examining,
animating force - biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, heart, heartbeat, life cycle, life force, life principle, lifeblood, soul, spark of life, spirit ,
carton - ammunition box, ark, bag, barrel, basket, bin, boot, bottle, box, box up, briefcase, bunker, caisson, can, canister,
consolidated - amalgamated, assimilated, blended, clamped, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, combined, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed,
stab wound - abrasion, blemish, break, burn, chafe, check, chip, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, cut, fracture, fray, frazzle,
slow as molasses - ambling, cautious, circumspect, crawling, creeping, deliberate, easy, faltering, flagging, gentle, gradual, halting, idle, indolent, languid,
high principles - character, decency, fairness, goodness, honesty, honour, integrity, justice, nobility, principles, purity, rectitude, righteousness, virtue ,
bonds of harmony - accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, brotherly love, charity, communion, community, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence, empathy,
elimination - abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annihilation, annulment, assassination, bloody murder, bumping-off, cast-off, castaway, choking, choking off, cleaning out, clearance,
analytic - a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, acute, algebraic, analytical, categorical, classificatory, conditional, deductive, deep, dialectic, discursive, enumerative, examining,
animating force - biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, heart, heartbeat, life cycle, life force, life principle, lifeblood, soul, spark of life, spirit ,
carton - ammunition box, ark, bag, barrel, basket, bin, boot, bottle, box, box up, briefcase, bunker, caisson, can, canister,
consolidated - amalgamated, assimilated, blended, clamped, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, combined, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed,
stab wound - abrasion, blemish, break, burn, chafe, check, chip, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, cut, fracture, fray, frazzle,

