vigilant
acute, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, attentive, avid, booted and spurred, briefed, careful, cautious,
academic dean - administration, administrator, chancellor, dean, master, president, principal, provost, rector
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signify - add up to, amount to something, announce, approve, argue, assign, attest, augur, be construed as, be featured, be indicative of, be prominent, be significant of, be somebody, be something,
causeless - accidental, adventitious, aimless, aleatory, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, dicey, fatal, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, iffy, incidental,
track down - determine, discover, find, find out, follow, follow a clue, follow up, get, hit, hunt down, invent, locate, nose, nose out, rediscover,
jazz band - Philharmonic, band, big band, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, chamber orchestra, combo, concert band, desks, ensemble, group,
body count - account, accounts, capitulation, census, count, head count, inventory, necrology, nose count, obit, obituary, recapitulation, reckoning, recount, recounting,
want to know - ask, demand, dig up, enquiry, gape, gawk, inquire, interrogate, nose around, peer, query, question, quiz, rubberneck, seek,
cadent - beating, measured, metric, metrical, pulsating, pulsing, rhythmic, rhythmical, throbbing
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at bottom - above, bottom, deep, effect, essence, essentially, fundamentally, inside, largely, mainly, merely, per se, practically, primarily, principally,
horrifying - appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable,