and foremost, first thing, firstly, freshly, from scratch, from the beginning, fundamental, gut, in the beginning, initially, mainly, material, new, newly, of the essence, once more, original, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primitive, primo, principally, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying

ff, cancel, capitulate, careless abandon, carelessness, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, casualness, cease, cede, chuck, come to terms, commitment, committedness, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craze, cry off, cry pax, cry quits, cursoriness, cut, cut it out, debasement, decadence, decadency, dedication, deep-six, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delirium, demoralization, depart from, depravation, depravedness, depravity, desert, desist, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, disappear, discard, discontinue, disgorge, dismiss, dispense with, dispose of, disregardfulness, dissoluteness, disuse, ditch, do without, drop, drop it, drop out, drop the subject, dump, earnestness, ease, easiness, ecstasy, egregiousness, eighty-six, eliminate, end, enormousness, evacuate, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, exuberance, fabulousness, faith, faithfulness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, fire and fury, forget, forget about it, forget it, forgetfulness, forgo, forsake, forswear, freedom, frenzy, fun, furor, furore, fury, games, get along without, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, giantism, gigantism, give away, give over, give up, gluttony, go back on, goldbrick, goof off, halt, hand over, hastiness, have done with, heartiness, heat, heatedness, heedlessness, hold, hyperbole, hypertrophy, hysteria, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impassionedness, implore mercy, impulsiveness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incontinence, indifference, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insouciance, intemperance, intemperateness, intensity, intentness, intoxication, irrepressibility, jettison, jilt, jump, junk, kick, kiss good-bye, knock it off, lack of foresight, laxity, laxness, lay aside, lay off, laziness, leave, leave behind, leave flat, leave loose ends, leave off, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let it go, let slip, liberty, license, licentiousness, looseness, loyalty, madness, make a sacrifice, malinger, maroon, miss, monstrousness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, naturalness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, oblivion, offhandedness, omit, orgasm, orgy, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, part with, pass over, pass up, passion, passionateness, perfunctoriness, permissiveness, play, pray for quarter, pretermit, procrastinate, profligacy, pull out, push aside, put aside, quit, quit cold, quitclaim, radicalism, rage, rapture, ravishment, recant, recklessness, refrain, regardlessness, reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renege, renounce, reprobacy, repudiate, resign, resolution, retire, retract, retreat, riotousness, rottenness, run out on, sacrifice, say goodbye to, say uncle, scrap, scrub, seriousness, set aside, shake, shirk, shrug off, sincerity, skip, slack, slough, sneeze at, spare, spirit, spontaneity, sport, sprezzatura, stand down, stay, stop, surrender, swear off, tactlessness, take leave of, take the pledge, tearing passion, terminate, think nothing of, thoughtlessness, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, thrust aside, too much, too-muchness, toss overboard, towering rage, transport, trifle, turn away from, turn up, turpitude, unconscionableness, unconstrained, unconstraint, uncontrol, undueness, unheedfulness, uninhibitedness, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unstrictness, unthinkingness, vacate, vanish, vehemence, waive, wantonness, warmth, wildness, withdraw, yield, yield the palm, zeal

rrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, dedicated, defenseless, degenerate, degraded, delirious, demoniac, depraved, derelict, deserted, desolate, devoted, devout, discarded, discontinued, disowned, dispensed with, disposed of, disregarded, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, disused, done with, earnest, ecstatic, egregious, enormous, enraptured, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, faithful, fancy, fast, fatherless, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forgone, forlorn, forsaken, forsworn, frantic, free, frenzied, friendless, fulminating, furious, gallant, gay, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, godforsaken, haggard, half-done, hearty, heated, helpless, high, hog-wild, homeless, hot, hot-blooded, howling, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, hysterical, ignored, immoderate, impassioned, in a transport, in earnest, in hysterics, incontinent, incorrigible, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, irrepressible, jettisoned, kithless, laid aside, lascivious, lax, lecherous, left, left undone, lewd, licentious, loose, lost to shame, loyal, mad, madding, maniac, marooned, missed, monstrous, morally polluted, motherless, neglected, nonrestrictive, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, omitted, on fire, on the shelf, open, orgasmic, orgiastic, out, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, out of use, out-of-date, outcast, outdated, outmoded, outrageous, outside the gates, outside the pale, outworn, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overlooked, overmuch, overweening, passed by, passed over, passed up, passionate, past use, pensioned off, perfervid, permissive, perverted, pigeonholed, polluted, possessed, profligate, put aside, rabid, raging, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, recanted, red-hot, reinless, rejected, released, relinquished, renounced, reprobate, resigned, resolute, retired, retracted, riotous, roaring, rotten, running mad, sacrificed, serious, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, sincere, slighted, solitary, spirited, steep, steeped in iniquity, stiff, storming, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, surrendered, tainted, tenantless, too much, transported, unasked, unattended to, unbridled, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconsidered, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncurbed, undone, undue, unfilled, unforced, unfriended, ungoverned, uninhabited, uninhibited, unmanned, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unprincipled, unreasonable, unregarded, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsolicited, unstaffed, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untaken, untenanted, untended, unwatched, vacant, vehement, vice-corrupted, violent, vitiated, waived, wanton, warm, warped, white-hot, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, worn-out, yielded, zealous

ed, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, guessing, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, lost, mazed, mortified, off the track, out of countenance, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, troubled, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, without a clue

b, blot out, blunt, box in, charge off, chasten, circumscribe, close, condition, constrain, consume, consume away, control, corrode, cramp, cripple, crumble, curtail, cushion, cut, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debilitate, decline, decrease, deduct, deliquesce, depreciate, derogate, detract, devitalize, die away, die down, dilute, diminish, discount, disparage, dive, downplay, drain, drop, drop off, dull, dwindle, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, enervate, enfeeble, eradicate, erode, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extract, fall, fall away, fall off, file away, foment, give relief, gruel, hedge, hedge about, impair, invalidate, keep within bounds, kick back, languish, lay, lay low, leach, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, lighten, limit, loose, loosen, lull, make allowance, melt away, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, narrow, negate, nullify, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, play down, plummet, plunge, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, purify, qualify, quash, rattle, rebate, recede, reduce, reduce the temperature, refine, refund, regulate by, relax, relent, relieve, remit, remove, restrain, restrict, retrench, root out, rub away, run its course, run low, sag, salve, sap, season, set conditions, set limits, shake, shake up, shorten, shrink, sink, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, stifle, stupe, subduct, subdue, subside, subtract, suppress, tail off, take a premium, take away, take from, take off, tame, taper, taper off, temper, thin, thin out, tone down, tune down, unbend, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undo, unman, unnerve, unstrain, unstrengthen, unstring, vitiate, wane, waste, waste away, water down, weaken, wear, wear away, weed, wipe out, withdraw, write off

chain discount, charge-off, concession, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, devitalization, dilution, diminishment, diminution, discount, drawback, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, fatigue, hushing, inanition, kickback, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, quietening, quieting, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, rollback, sagging, salvage, salving, scaling down, setoff, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tare, tempering, thinning, time discount, trade discount, tranquilization, tret, underselling, weakening, write-off

travallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work

idate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, decrease, delete, dock, draw, draw in, draw together, edit, edit out, elide, epitomize, erase, expunge, expurgate, extenuate, foreshorten, kill, knit, mow, narrow, nip, omit, poll, pollard, prune, pucker, pucker up, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rescind, retrench, rub out, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snub, solidify, strangle, strangulate, strike, strike off, strike out, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, void, waste no words, wrinkle

led, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

umscription, clipping, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compend, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, condensed version, consolidation, conspectus, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crasis, curtailment, cutting, decrease, deletion, digest, diminuendo, draft, editing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, erasure, expurgation, foreshortening, head, hourglass, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, omission, outline, overview, pandect, precis, pruning, puckering, pursing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, review, rubric, shortened version, shortening, skeleton, sketch, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, striking, summary, summation, survey, syllabus, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, systole, telescoping, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling

ttison, lay down, leave, leave off, pension off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, scrap, shed, slough, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, surrender, throw away, throw out, throw up, vacate, waive, withdraw from, wrest, yield

ach, foregut, giblets, gizzard, gullet, gut, guts, heart, hindgut, honeycomb stomach, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, manyplies, maw, middle, midgut, midriff, midsection, omasum, paunch, perineum, pod, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, pylorus, rectum, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, small intestine, spare tire, spleen, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, ticker, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, venter, ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

debutant, dilettante, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, elemental, elementary, embryonic, entrant, fellow, fetal, fledgling, formative, foundational, freshman, fundamental, gestatory, graphemic, greenhorn, guide, guru, ideographic, ignoramus, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inductee, infant, infantile, initial, initiate, initiative, initiatory, instructor, introductory, inventive, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, maestro, majuscule, master, melamed, mentor, minuscular, minuscule, mullah, nascent, natal, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, nonprofessional, novice, novitiate, original, pandit, parturient, pedagogist, pedagogue, pictographic, postnatal, postulant, preceptor, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, probationer, probationist, procreative, professor, pundit, rabbi, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, rudimental, rudimentary, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, smatterer, starets, teacher, tenderfoot, transliterated, tyro, uncial, upper-case, ur

ous, corrupt, criminal, deceptive, defective, delinquent, delusive, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviational, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, digressive, discursive, disgraceful, disparate, distorted, divergent, eccentric, errant, erratic, erring, erroneous, evil, exceptional, excursive, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, formless, hardly the thing, heretical, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, ignominious, illegal, illogical, illusory, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, indirect, infamous, irregular, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, not done, not right, not the thing, not true, odd, off, off the track, off-base, off-color, out, out-of-line, out-of-the-way, peccant, peculiar, perverse, perverted, planetary, preternatural, rambling, roving, sacrilegious, scandalous, self-contradictory, serpentine, shameful, shameless, shapeless, shifting, sinful, snaky, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, swerving, terrible, turning, twisting, undirected, undue, unfactual, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unrepresentative, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, untrue, untypical, unusual, vagrant, veering, wandering, wicked, wide, winding, wrong, wrongful, zigzag

uded mind, conceit, corner, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiosity, curve, daftness, decentralization, declination, defectiveness, deflection, deflexure, delusion, dementedness, dementia, departure, deployment, derangement, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentness, digression, discursion, disorientation, distortion, distraction, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, division, dogleg, dottiness, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, errancy, errantry, erraticism, erraticness, erroneousness, error, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fanning, fanning out, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, folie, foment, freakiness, freakishness, furor, hairpin, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illusion, indirection, indirectness, inferiority, insaneness, insanity, instigate, irrationality, irregularity, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, monstrosity, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, oddness, peccancy, peculiarity, pererration, perversion, pixilation, possession, prodigy, provoke, psychopathy, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, raise, rambling, rarity, reasonlessness, self-contradiction, senselessness, separation, set, set on, shattered mind, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick mind, sickness, sin, sinfulness, singularity, skew, skewness, slant, slip, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, stir up, strangeness, straying, subnormality, superiority, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, teratism, transverseness, trick, turn, turning, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unconventionality, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, witlessness, wrong, wrongness, yaw, zigzag