privately
apart, aside, behind closed doors, by stealth, covertly, furtively, in camera, in person, in privacy, in private, in the flesh, individually, personally, privily, stealthily,
man of learning - academician, classicist, clerk, genius, humanist, learned man, mastermind, philologist, philosopher, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, student
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importune - advocate, aggravating, annoying, appeal, apply pressure, approach, beg, beseech, beset, besiege, blandish, bothering, bothersome, bug, buttonhole,
stick it out - be unflappable, bear up, come up fighting, die hard, get along, get home free, get on, go on, go on with, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold fast, hold on,
blob - ball, balloon, bilge, bit, bladder, blister, boll, bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulblet, bulge, bump,
soft chancre - VD, abscess, blister, boil, bunion, canker, carbuncle, chancre, chilblain, clap, dose, felon, fester, festering, gathering,
spectrum-luminosity diagram - black hole, magnitude, nova, population, pulsar, quasar, supernova
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white paper - account, acquaintance, announcement, annunciation, blue book, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board, circular, communication, communique, data, datum, declaration, directory,
plasterwork - coating, eclipse, envelopment, hiding, incrustation, sheathing, upholstery, wrapping
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top off - accomplish, brim, bring to completion, bring to fruition, bunker, button up, cap, carry to completion, cater, charge, chock, clean up, climax, close out, close up,
melt into - alter, become, dissolve, evolve, fall into, melt, merge, ripen, run into, turn into, turn to
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