humdinger



ace, beaut, corker, daisy, dandy, dilly, dream, honey, knock-out, lulu, nifty, peach, pip, pippin, sweetheart,









   rile - aggravate, agitate, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, beat, beat up, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug,

   in the bud - aboriginal, beginning, budding, creation, elemental, elementary, embryonic, foetal, formative, fundamental, germinal, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient,

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

   predecessor - ancestor, ancestors, announcer, antecedent, antecedents, ascendants, avant-garde, bellwether, bushwhacker, elders, explorer, fathers, forebear, forebears, forefather,

   stopped diapason - English horn, bassoon, cello, clarinet, clarion, cornet, diapason, mixture, oboe, octave, organ stop, piccolo, principal, rank, reed stop,

   come near - accost, advance, ape, approach, approximate, bear down on, bear up, bring to mind, call up, close, close in, come, come forward, come on, compare,

   secession - agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, backsliding, betrayal, bolt, break, breakaway, breaking, counter-culture, defection, dereliction, deserter, desertion, difference,

   radio star - black hole, magnitude, nova, population, pulsar, quasar, supernova ,

   water-borne infection - carrier, epidemiology, infection, taint, vector, virus ,

   size - adjust, albumen, amplitude, appraise, appreciate, area, assay, assess, assort, autopsy, batter, bigness, body, bolt, breadth,