ear-rending



booming, deafening, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, loud, pealing, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, sonorous, stentorian, thunderous ,









   gateway - archway, back door, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, door, doorpost, doorway, front door, gate, gatepost, hatch, hatchway, lintel, porch,

   cast up accounts - balance, book, capitalize, carry, carry over, charge off, close out, credit, debit, docket, enter, keep books, log, minute, note,

   bold conjecture - conjecture, guess, hunch, perhaps, shot, speculation, stab, surmise ,

   preciosity - affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, elegance, euphemism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, legalism, mannerism, pedantry, preciousness,

   theorization - abstraction, analysis, explanation, speculation ,

   long for - ache, clamour for, cry for, desire, fancy, hanker, hope, itch for, long, miss, pant, pine, spoil for, thirst, wish for,

   trophoplasm - cytoplasm, ectoplasm, protoplasm ,

   nimble mind - acuity, aptitude, brightness, brilliance, cleverness, dexterity, esprit, flair, genius, gift, keenness, nimbleness, nous, quickness, sharpness,

   stock exchange - Wall Street, board, commodity exchange, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market, exchange, exchange floor, outside market, over-the-counter market, pit, quotation board, stock market, stock ticker,

   crumbliness - delicacy, fragility, frailty, vulnerability ,