quick+at+contrivance
21hack — 1. verb /hæk/ a) To chop or cut down in a rough manner. They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle. b) To cough noisily. Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded… …
22continuity — Synonyms and related words: accordance, action, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, book, calm, catastrophe, ceaselessness, characterization, chattering, chronology, color, coming after,… …
23game — Synonyms and related words: Animalia, Boston, Byzantine intrigues, Earl of Coventry, Monopoly, Olympic games, Olympics, Ping Pong, Pit, Polish bank, Rugby, Russian bank, Scrabble, acquiescent, action, adventurous, agreeable, aim, alacritous, all… …
24means — Synonyms and related words: MO, Swiss bank account, action, ad hoc measure, algorithm, answer, apparatus, approach, artifice, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, attack, available means, balance, bank account, bottom dollar,… …
25resource — Synonyms and related words: ability, action, ad hoc measure, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, answer, aptitude, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, assets, available means, backlog, balance, bonanza, bravura, brilliance, cache …
26slant — Synonyms and related words: Anschauung, aberrancy, aberration, across, action, aim, anagnorisis, angle, angle of vision, angularity, animus, approach, aptitude, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascend, aslant, aslope, aspect, athwart,… …
27‘lads’ and ‘lager louts’ — The terms ‘lads’ and ‘lager louts’ describe two different cultural phenomena. The lager lout first appeared as a conservative media target in the mid 1980s, the label encapsulating the leisure habits of nouveau riche working class males who… …
28move — v 1. budge, stir, change place or position; shift, yield, give way, move over. 2. flit, fly, hie, hop, dart; zoom, vroom, whoosh, sweep, skim, skim along, Sl. breeze in or out or along; wend, meander, gad, gad about. 3. advance, progress, go, go… …
29jig — I. /dʒɪg / (say jig) noun 1. a device for holding the work in a machine tool, especially one for accurately guiding a drill or group of drills so as to ensure uniformity in successive pieces machined. 2. a device used in fishing, especially a… …
30whip — [c]/wɪp / (say wip) verb (whipped or, Rare, whipt, whipping) –verb (t) 1. to strike with quick, repeated strokes of something slender and flexible; lash. 2. to beat with a whip or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog;… …
