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Pyrrhic victory, accomplish, achieve, acquire, annex, argue into, ascendancy, attain, bag, be seized of, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, best, bring in,









   pore - aperture, avenue, broaching, canal, cavity, channel, chasm, check, chute, clearing, cleft, con, crack, debouch, disclosure,

   brush discharge - arc, discharge, shock, spark ,

   apocalypse - actuarial prediction, afflatus, baring, direct communication, disclosing, disclosure, discovering, discovery, divine inspiration, divine revelation, envisioning, epiphany, expose, exposition, exposure,

   pyrolyse - blaze, blister, brand, burn, cast, cauterize, char, coal, crack, flame, found, oxidise, parch, scorch, sear,

   imposing - Babylonian, adipose, aristocratic, arty, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, baronial, beefy, big, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy,

   cut it out - abandon, abort, belay, cancel, cease, desist, discontinue, drop it, end, give over, halt, have done with, hold, knock it off, lay off,

   stop-and-go light - green light, red light, stop light, traffic light ,

   partly - after a fashion, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, comparatively, detectably, fairly, half, halfway,

   slim chance - bare possibility, dark horse, improbability, long shot, off chance, outside chance, small chance, unlikelihood ,

   shininess - afterglow, flush, glint, gloss, glow, incandescence, lustre, sheen, shine, skylight ,