have an edge - bite, bristle, cut, prick, stick, sting
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carroty - Titian, auburn, chestnut, peach ,
make a distinction - analyse, anatomize, atomize, change, chop logic, differentiate, discriminate, disjoin, distinguish, diversify, divide, individualize, mark, mark off, modify,
corroborate - affirm, attest, authenticate, back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, certify, confirm, document, fortify, justify, probate, prove,
stock of words - lexicon, phraseology, thesaurus, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage ,
give ear to - hark, hear, hearken to, listen ,
give a try-out - assay, confirm, essay, experiment, play around with, practice, prove, research, road test, sample, shake down, substantiate, taste, test, try,
repudiated - denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, dismissed, disowned, excepted, excluded, forsworn, ignored, invalid, rejected, renounced, spurned ,
feast upon - browse, crop, feed on, graze, live on, pasture ,
vamp up - brush up, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, fix, formulate, frame, freshen, furbish, invent, make up, polish, renovate,
carroty - Titian, auburn, chestnut, peach ,
make a distinction - analyse, anatomize, atomize, change, chop logic, differentiate, discriminate, disjoin, distinguish, diversify, divide, individualize, mark, mark off, modify,
corroborate - affirm, attest, authenticate, back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, certify, confirm, document, fortify, justify, probate, prove,
stock of words - lexicon, phraseology, thesaurus, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage ,
give ear to - hark, hear, hearken to, listen ,
give a try-out - assay, confirm, essay, experiment, play around with, practice, prove, research, road test, sample, shake down, substantiate, taste, test, try,
repudiated - denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, dismissed, disowned, excepted, excluded, forsworn, ignored, invalid, rejected, renounced, spurned ,
feast upon - browse, crop, feed on, graze, live on, pasture ,
vamp up - brush up, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, fix, formulate, frame, freshen, furbish, invent, make up, polish, renovate,

