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asphyxiate, bit, bottle up, bridle, censor, check, choke off, clamp down on, constrain, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, curb, damp down,









   aspirer - addict, aspirant, candidate, collector, devotee, freak, hopeful, lover, millenarian, optimist, perfectionist, ray of sunshine, suitor, utopian, votary ,

   caviller - censor, cognoscente, commentator, connoisseur, critic, criticize, editor, knocker, muckraker, nitpicker, pettifogger, prevaricator, quibbler, reviewer, scold ,

   piece of work - assignment, busywork, charge, chore, commission, duty, errand, exercise, homework, job, labour, mission, odd job, project, service,

   broken thread - disconnection, discontinuance, disjunction, episode, incompleteness, irregularity, parenthesis ,

   lackadaisical - apathetic, backward, benumbed, bored, careless, casual, cold, cool, dallying, dead, debilitated, delaying, devil-may-care, dilatory, dilly-dallying,

   plant life - botany, greens, vegetable kingdom, vegetation, verdure ,

   great wrong - atrocity, disservice, grievance, imposition, injury, injustice, outrage, raw deal, wrong ,

   bilge - balderdash, baloney, blah, blah-blah, blister, blob, bop, bosh, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bull, bullshit,

   cosmetic dermatitis - allergen, allergy, asthma, eczema, hay fever, hives ,

   irking - aggravating, annoyance, annoying, bothersome, disturbing, exasperating, galling, harassing, harassment, importunate, importune, irksome, irritating, mischievous, pesky,