gradate



assort, blend, bolt, categorize, classify, collate, divide, grade, graduate, group, rank, riddle, screen, separate, sieve,









   handmaiden - agent, appliance, au pair girl, biddy, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, contrivance, cook, creature, device, duenna, dummy, dupe, gentlewoman,

   supplication - Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Paternoster, adjuration, aid prayer, appeal, application, beads, begging, beseeching, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet,

   petulance - arbitrariness, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, caprice, capriciousness, cold comfort, complaining, complaint, crankiness, crotchetiness, destructive criticism,

   whole-tone scale - compass, diapason, gamut, range, register, scale, temperament ,

   pitching - archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, leaning, lobbing, lurching, musketry,

   steaming - ablaze, aeration, aerial, aerodynamic, afire, airy, ardent, atomization, boating, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, canoeing,

   sectarian - Bohemian, adherent, alienated, apostate, at odds with, at variance with, beatification, beatitude, beatnik, bigot, bigoted, blessedness, blessing, breakaway, bug,

   airiness - airy nothing, airy texture, appearance, ascent, attenuation, bounce, breeziness, buoyancy, daintiness, debonairness, delicacy, delusiveness, diaphanousness, dilution, exiguity,

   hydraulic power - electric power, impulse, nuclear power, propulsion, rocket power, thrust ,

   mincing steps - amble, andante, crawl, creep, dead march, dogtrot, drag, droop, flounce, funeral march, gait, gallop, hitch, hobble, jog,