trust officer
banker, cashier, money changer, moneylender, teller
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R and D - control, control experiment, controlled experiment, cut and try, empiricism, experiment, experimental design, experimental method, experimental proof, experimentalism, experimentation, hit and miss, noble experiment, pragmatism, research and development,
scratched - chamfered, channelled, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, crimped, cut, engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, gouged, grooved, incised,
shrug it off - accept, adjust, condone, countenance, let pass, obey, overlook, reconcile, rise above, shrug, submit, yield
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the cops - bobby, bull, cop, copper, dick, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, gum shoe, law, pig, police
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preheat - chafe, cook, electric-heat, fire, fire up, foment, gas-heat, heat, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, mull, overheat, recook,
zapped - complete, dead, decided, defunct, deleted, done, done for, done with, ended, expunged, extinct, finished, kaput, over, perfected,
exploder - cap, fuse, primer, priming, squib
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past hope - beyond recall, gone, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, ruined,
overripe - bad, brackish, cloying, foetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky, maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious,
and sinker - bite, completely, devour, eat up, fall for, go for, hook, lap up, nibble, swallow
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