drop by drop



bit by bit, by degrees, in detail, little by little, piecemeal, slowly, step by step ,









   idiom - Yankee, adjectival phrase, argot, cant, choice of words, class dialect, clause, composition, construction, dialect, dialect dictionary, diction, expression, formulation, grammar,

   stepchild - child, daughter, descendant, foster child, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, heiress, offspring, scion, son, son and heir, sonny, stepbrother, stepdaughter,

   keep time - beat, beat the drum, clock, count, drum, kill time, mark time, pound, ruffle, summer, take time, tap, thrum, thump, time,

   superfluous - accessory, accidental, additional, adventitious, aimless, appurtenant, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial, collateral, contingent, dispensable, excess, excessive, expendable,

   last muster - annihilation, bane, curtains, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, extinction, going,

   readership - chair, fellowship, tutelage, tutorship ,

   interchanged - changeable, commutable, commutative, convertible, equal, equalizing, equivalent, even, exchanged, give-and-take, interchangeable, mutual, reciprocal, reciprocating, retaliatory,

   philanthropist - Santa Claus, almoner, angel, assignor, awarder, backer, benefactor, benefactress, cheerful giver, conferrer, consignor, contributor, donor, fairy godmother, funder,

   unappreciated - despised, lowly, misunderstood, out of favour, thankless, unpopular, unsung, unvalued ,

   vitamin - ascorbic acid, biotin, carotene, choline, hormone, maturative, niacin, vitamin M ,