ascetic - Franciscan, Lenten, Spartan, abbot, abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, apologetic, astringent, atoning, austere, bald,
talk to - accost, address, apostrophize, appeal to, approach, bespeak, buttonhole, call down, call to, come down on, dress down, give it to, greet, hail, invoke,
average out - average, pair off, split the difference, strike a balance ,
pour balm on - allay, appease, calm, conciliate, cool, defuse, dulcify, lay, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, smooth, soothe, tranquillize ,
delouse - autoclave, bleach, boil, bowdlerize, chlorinate, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, decontaminate, disinfect, dry-clean, dust, dust off,
effective style - command of language, expression, felicity, gift of gab, glibness, meaningfulness, oratory, rhetoric ,
gendarme - bailiff, beadle, beagle, bobby, bound bailiff, bull, captain, chief of police, commissioner, constable, cop, copper, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective,
sorriness - apology, attrition, bitterness, contrition, gaudiness, grief, meanness, regret, remorse, sadness, shame, sorrow ,
of a kind - analogous, betwixt and between, comparable, correspondent, corresponding, dull, duplicate, equivalent, fair, fair to middling, indifferent, insipid, lacklustre, matching, mediocre,
empty-minded - blank, empty, hollow, inane, jejune, rattle brained, scatterbrained, vacant, vacuous, vapid ,
talk to - accost, address, apostrophize, appeal to, approach, bespeak, buttonhole, call down, call to, come down on, dress down, give it to, greet, hail, invoke,
average out - average, pair off, split the difference, strike a balance ,
pour balm on - allay, appease, calm, conciliate, cool, defuse, dulcify, lay, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, smooth, soothe, tranquillize ,
delouse - autoclave, bleach, boil, bowdlerize, chlorinate, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, decontaminate, disinfect, dry-clean, dust, dust off,
effective style - command of language, expression, felicity, gift of gab, glibness, meaningfulness, oratory, rhetoric ,
gendarme - bailiff, beadle, beagle, bobby, bound bailiff, bull, captain, chief of police, commissioner, constable, cop, copper, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective,
sorriness - apology, attrition, bitterness, contrition, gaudiness, grief, meanness, regret, remorse, sadness, shame, sorrow ,
of a kind - analogous, betwixt and between, comparable, correspondent, corresponding, dull, duplicate, equivalent, fair, fair to middling, indifferent, insipid, lacklustre, matching, mediocre,
empty-minded - blank, empty, hollow, inane, jejune, rattle brained, scatterbrained, vacant, vacuous, vapid ,

