junk mail - airmail, correspondence, express, frank, letter, mail, mailing list, parcel post, post, special delivery
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blaze a trail - blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, chalk, chalk up, check, dapple, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolour, dot, engrave,
simulacrum - acting, affectation, airiness, ally, alter ego, analogue, angle, appearance, aspect, associate, attitudinising, bluff, bluffing, brother, certified copy,
gleeful - blithe, blithesome, boon, buxom, cheerful, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, frivolous, gay, happy, hilarious,
narrow sympathies - bigotry, blind spot, blinders, fanaticism, insularity, littleness, meanness, near-sightedness, parochialism, pettiness, provincialism, smallness, stuffiness ,
flouting - affront, aspersion, atrocity, brickbat, contempt, contumely, cut, despite, dump, enormity, flout, gibe, humiliation, indignity, injury,
cast a spell - beguile, bewitch, captivate, carry away, charm, enchant, enrapture, enthral, entrance, fascinate, hypnotize, infatuate, intrigue, mesmerise, spell,
infliction - affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, care, castigation, charging,
mandrel - arbour, axis, fulcrum, gudgeon, hinge, hub, nave, pin, pivot, pole, radiant, spindle, swivel ,
truckle to - bend, bend the neck, bend to, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, cater to, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, curtsy, do homage, do obeisance, do service,
blaze a trail - blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, chalk, chalk up, check, dapple, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolour, dot, engrave,
simulacrum - acting, affectation, airiness, ally, alter ego, analogue, angle, appearance, aspect, associate, attitudinising, bluff, bluffing, brother, certified copy,
gleeful - blithe, blithesome, boon, buxom, cheerful, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, frivolous, gay, happy, hilarious,
narrow sympathies - bigotry, blind spot, blinders, fanaticism, insularity, littleness, meanness, near-sightedness, parochialism, pettiness, provincialism, smallness, stuffiness ,
flouting - affront, aspersion, atrocity, brickbat, contempt, contumely, cut, despite, dump, enormity, flout, gibe, humiliation, indignity, injury,
cast a spell - beguile, bewitch, captivate, carry away, charm, enchant, enrapture, enthral, entrance, fascinate, hypnotize, infatuate, intrigue, mesmerise, spell,
infliction - affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, care, castigation, charging,
mandrel - arbour, axis, fulcrum, gudgeon, hinge, hub, nave, pin, pivot, pole, radiant, spindle, swivel ,
truckle to - bend, bend the neck, bend to, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, cater to, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, curtsy, do homage, do obeisance, do service,

