gondolier - bargeman, boat-handler, boater, boatman, ferryman, galley slave, oar, oarsman, punter, rower, waterman, yachtsman
,
rationing - apportionment, arrest, budgeting, check, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, cutting, cutting the pie, deceleration, dividing,
overdue - ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, anticipated, arrested, awaited, back, backward, beforehand, behind, behind time, behindhand, belated, blocked, dated,
battleground - battlefield, field, firing line, front, front line, line, shambles, theatre ,
without nerves - balanced, cool, fast, fiducial, firm, imperturbable, predictable, reliable, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, substantial,
ill-digested - adolescent, callow, fledgling, green, immature, juvenile, raw, unfledged, unripe, unseasoned ,
multitudinousness - abundance, multiplicity, plenty, profusion ,
cursory - airy, ankle-deep, at odds, averse, brief, careless, casual, desultory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, disregardful, easygoing, epidermal,
grappler - button, fastener, girth, instrument, lacing, tool, wrestler ,
uncharitable - authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, little-minded,
rationing - apportionment, arrest, budgeting, check, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, cutting, cutting the pie, deceleration, dividing,
overdue - ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, anticipated, arrested, awaited, back, backward, beforehand, behind, behind time, behindhand, belated, blocked, dated,
battleground - battlefield, field, firing line, front, front line, line, shambles, theatre ,
without nerves - balanced, cool, fast, fiducial, firm, imperturbable, predictable, reliable, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, substantial,
ill-digested - adolescent, callow, fledgling, green, immature, juvenile, raw, unfledged, unripe, unseasoned ,
multitudinousness - abundance, multiplicity, plenty, profusion ,
cursory - airy, ankle-deep, at odds, averse, brief, careless, casual, desultory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, disregardful, easygoing, epidermal,
grappler - button, fastener, girth, instrument, lacing, tool, wrestler ,
uncharitable - authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, little-minded,

