electric chair



axe, block, cross, death chair, death chamber, drop, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet, guillotine, halter, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat,









   hold out against - beg off, decline, disagree, disallow, disclaim, dissent, endure, hold out, negate, negative, not buy, refuse, reject, repudiate, resist,

   political prisoner - POW, captive, chain gang, con, convict, jailbird, lifer, parolee, prisoner, trusty ,

   dispatched - accomplished fact, discharged, executed, realized ,

   benignant - Christian, Christlike, accommodating, affable, affectionate, agreeable, amiable, amicable, auspicious, beneficent, benevolent, benign, bright, brotherly, clement,

   dogged perseverance - application, assiduity, concentration, constancy, diligence, endurance, fidelity, industry, insistence, loyalty, obstinacy, patience, permanence, persistence, pertinacity,

   lifelikeness - artlessness, authenticity, honesty, legitimacy, naturalism, naturalness, realism, sincerity ,

   not bright - brainless, foolish, headless, ignorant, inept, insensate, irrational, mindless, reasonless, senseless, unintelligent, unreasoning, untalented, unthinking, unwise,

   prominence - account, altitude, atmospheric visibility, authority, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulge, bulging, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, celebrity, clarity, clearness,

   beg - adjure, appeal, appeal to, ask, bear, beseech, besiege, brace, breed, bum, cadge, call for help, call on, call upon, circumvent,

   partisan politics - Realpolitik, Tammany Hall, bossism, career politics, confrontation politics, consensus politics, economics in action, empirical politics, kid-glove politics, machine politics, peanut politics, petty politics, politics, polity, pork-barrel politics,