vexed question - Gordian knot, bone of contention, catechism, crux, demand, dilemma, enigma, feeler, floorer, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, issue, knot, leader,
treat with disrespect - disesteem, disparage, disrespect, ridicule, take liberties, trifle with ,
die hard - backward, baulk, be determined, be in earnest, be resolved, buckle down, buckle to, conservative, die fighting, fogyish, go for broke, hold out, mean business, never say die, not back down,
courtyard - arena, cincture, close, confine, container, coop, court, delimited field, enclave, enclosure, field, fold, ground, list, pale,
like-minded - affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, akin, amicable, at one, attuned, coexistent, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concordant, concurrent,
tinker - cobble, cobbler, commission, condition, dabble, dally, darn, do up, doctor, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with, fidget with, finger with, fix,
a belief - axiom, belief, canon, doctrine, dogma, maxim, precept, principle, teaching, tenet ,
outcasts - disadvantaged, dregs, outcast, poor, rabble, underprivileged ,
numbers pool - bingo, drawing, raffle, sweep, sweepstakes ,
adapt - acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, accustom, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, alter, ameliorate, arrange, assimilate, assimilate to,
treat with disrespect - disesteem, disparage, disrespect, ridicule, take liberties, trifle with ,
die hard - backward, baulk, be determined, be in earnest, be resolved, buckle down, buckle to, conservative, die fighting, fogyish, go for broke, hold out, mean business, never say die, not back down,
courtyard - arena, cincture, close, confine, container, coop, court, delimited field, enclave, enclosure, field, fold, ground, list, pale,
like-minded - affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, akin, amicable, at one, attuned, coexistent, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concordant, concurrent,
tinker - cobble, cobbler, commission, condition, dabble, dally, darn, do up, doctor, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with, fidget with, finger with, fix,
a belief - axiom, belief, canon, doctrine, dogma, maxim, precept, principle, teaching, tenet ,
outcasts - disadvantaged, dregs, outcast, poor, rabble, underprivileged ,
numbers pool - bingo, drawing, raffle, sweep, sweepstakes ,
adapt - acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, accustom, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, alter, ameliorate, arrange, assimilate, assimilate to,