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AWOL, French leave, abandonment, absence without leave, bolt, decampment, departure, desertion, disappearance, disappearing act, egress, elopement, escape, evacuation, exit,









   close-fitting - close, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, crowded, incommodious, limited, meagre, narrow, narrow gauge, near, restricted, scant, scanty,

   sage - Nestor, ace, acute, authority, broad-minded, deep, discerning, doctor, doyen, doyenne, elder, elder statesman, expert, genius, gnostic,

   shrunken - Lilliputian, abated, ablated, atrophied, attenuated, bated, belittled, brittle, by the board, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted,

   different thing - another, other, something else ,

   deposit - accumulation, acquittal, acquittance, allocation, alluvium, amortization, ash, assignment, bank, binder, bond, bosom, bottle up, bundle away, bury,

   cry up - advertise, advocate, back, ballyhoo, bark, beat the drum, bill, bless, blow up, boast of, boost, brag about, build up, celebrate, commend,

   scale down - abridge, compress, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, diminish,

   make head against - advance, come along, come on, get ahead, get along, go, go ahead, go along, go on, make headway, move, pass, pass on, proceed, progress,

   unnameable - incommunicable, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, non-communicable, unmentionable, unspeakable, unutterable ,

   upper crust - aristocracy, baronage, barons, beautiful people, best people, blue blood, carriage trade, chivalry, cream, cream of society, drawing room, elect, elite, establishment, fashionable society,