agitating - breathtaking, charged, disquieting, disturbing, exciting, exhilarating, galvanic, heady, impressive, incitement, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, maddening,
sigmoid - circuitous, circumlocutory, crescent, crescent-shaped, horn-shaped, horned, involute, labyrinthine, lunar, lunate, mazy, meandering, moon-shaped, roundabout, ruffled,
licked - addled, all up with, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, dazed, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down,
standards - Ten Commandments, code, conscience, ethos, ideal, moral, moral climate, moral code, morality, morals, norm, principles, standard ,
mettle - activity, animation, animus, aptitude, ardour, backbone, bent, bias, bottom, brio, briskness, cast, character, chutzpah, constitution,
drift away - decline, die away, diminish, dwindle, ebb, fade, fade away, go, go away, move away, move off, pull away, recede, retire, retreat,
quackery - humbug, hypocrisy, imposture ,
treat with reserve - challenge, contest, dispute, distrust, doubt, mistrust, query, question, scruple, suspect ,
formerly - already, before, earlier, early, ere, erstwhile, heretofore, historically, hitherto, late, once, previously, recently, then, time,
half-cocked - adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, callow, fledgling, forward, green, hasty, ill-advised, ill-considered, immature, impulsive, juvenile, precipitate,
sigmoid - circuitous, circumlocutory, crescent, crescent-shaped, horn-shaped, horned, involute, labyrinthine, lunar, lunate, mazy, meandering, moon-shaped, roundabout, ruffled,
licked - addled, all up with, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, dazed, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down,
standards - Ten Commandments, code, conscience, ethos, ideal, moral, moral climate, moral code, morality, morals, norm, principles, standard ,
mettle - activity, animation, animus, aptitude, ardour, backbone, bent, bias, bottom, brio, briskness, cast, character, chutzpah, constitution,
drift away - decline, die away, diminish, dwindle, ebb, fade, fade away, go, go away, move away, move off, pull away, recede, retire, retreat,
quackery - humbug, hypocrisy, imposture ,
treat with reserve - challenge, contest, dispute, distrust, doubt, mistrust, query, question, scruple, suspect ,
formerly - already, before, earlier, early, ere, erstwhile, heretofore, historically, hitherto, late, once, previously, recently, then, time,
half-cocked - adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, callow, fledgling, forward, green, hasty, ill-advised, ill-considered, immature, impulsive, juvenile, precipitate,

