legislator
alderman, assemblyman, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, chosen freeholder, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, congressman, congresswoman, councillor,
graceless - all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted,
fair copy - MS, article, autograph, brainchild, composition, copy, counterfeit, document, draft, draught, draughtsman, draughty, essay, fake, fiction,
gossip columnist - busybody, gossip, newspaperman, reporter, rumourmonger, scribe, tabby, talebearer, tattle tale, tell-tale
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obtrusiveness - arrogance, assurance, audacity, blatancy, bother, conceit, contumely, dash, dazzle, demand, effrontery, exaction, extravagance, extravaganza, flamboyance,
remind - admonish, advise, bring to recollection, carry back, cite, cue, give a hint, give the cue, hint, imply, intimate, jog, jog the memory, mind, nag,
heroism - bigheartedness, bigness, boldness, braveness, bravery, chivalrousness, chivalry, consequence, conspicuous gallantry, courage, courageousness, distinction, elevation, eminence, errantry,
get hung up - break down, collapse, come to nothing, fall flat, fall through, fizzle out, peter out, poop out
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tracking down - chase, dogging, follow up, following, hue and cry, hunt, hunting, location, prosecution, pursuance, quest, searching, shadowing, stalking, tracking,
settle the matter - ascertain, bring home to, cinch, clinch, demonstrate, determine, establish, fix, follow, hold good, hold water, make good, make out, nail down, prove,
Occident - America, Europe, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Orient, continent, down under, landmass, the old country
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