counter-espionage



bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counter-intelligence, electronic surveillance, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence work, military intelligence, observation, secret police, secret service, shadowing, spying, stakeout,









   totem pole - allegory, bar, cipher, emblem, ideogram, logotype, pictogram, pole, rod, scape, stalk, stem, stick, symbol, symbolism,

   judicious - astute, aware, bland, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, considered, critical, deliberate, diplomatic, discerning, discreet, discriminating,

   in every clime - all over, all round, everywhere, under the sun, universally ,

   pummel - bang, baste, batter, beat, belabour, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate,

   weir - air lock, arch dam, avenue, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall,

   get it over - button up, call off, cancel, cap, carry to completion, clean up, climax, close out, close up, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, delete, dispose of,

   unsatisfactorily - badly, inadequately, intolerably, poorly ,

   practicality - adaptability, applicability, attainability, availability, balance, common sense, convenience, cool head, coolness, ductility, due sense of, earthiness, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency,

   libidinousness - animality, biological urge, carnality, concupiscence, desire, eroticism, hot blood, hot pants, impurity, indecency, itch, lechery, lewdness, lust, nymphomania,

   what is possible - bare possibility, chance, contingency, eventuality, good chance, hope, likelihood, off chance, outside chance, potential, potentiality, probability, prospect ,