aphorism/ citation/ mot

nourishment

nutritiousness

gauge/ indicator

metrology

indentured

admitting

intern/ stationary

corn/ maize

zein

maize

tortilla

fist/ maize/ yank

artful/ cunning/ deceitful/ guileful/ insidious/ knavish/ tricky/ wilful/ wily

underhand

deception/ double dealing/ hypocrisy/ indirection/ knavery

archly

payment/ retaliation/ wage

nemesis

conversational

dialogue/ talk

accommodation/ habitation/ home/ house/ housing/ (proper)place/ space/ whereabouts

topology

school

despatch

black/ dismal/ gloomy/ grum/ moody/ muddy/ sullen/ trist/ turbid/ vexatious/ vexed/ wan

glout

guile/ hoax/ insincerity/ machination/ quiz/ ruse/ trick/ wilfulness

weasel

disavow/ disown

ditto

honourable

abominable/ black/ cursed/ detestable/ foul/ grisly/ gross/ gruesome/ hateful/ hideous/ horrible/ loathsome/ mawkish/ nasty/ obnoxious/ odious

garbage

gruesomeness

nauseous

ugliness

spider

integer

fling

hand in hand

holocaust

panoply

(for)keeps

hand and foot/ wholly

despoliation

accomplish/ consummate/ finalise

fiasco

fisticuff

butter

fly

pugilist

fisticuff/ pugilism

insect

dweller/ inmate/ resident/ settler/ tenant

handplay

boxer

waddy

but

crocodile/ gavial

blithe/ happy go lucky/ hilarious/ jocund/ jolly/ joyous

collude

intermingle

commingled/ jointed/ mixed

inweave

juxtapose

interlock

composed/ contiguous/ joined/ next/ vicinal

cream

creamy

downy/ gentle/ ladylike/ malleable/ nesh/ placid/ soft/ tender/ yielding

temper/ tenderise

mellowness/ softness

tenderly

agreement/ confluence/ junction/ juncture/ meeting

join

reconcile

jack tar/ mariner/ oarsman/ sailor/ seafarer/ shipman/ tar

salt

perusal

observe

nautical

attendant/ employee/ jobholder/ servant/ underling/ valet/ worker

keep

employment/ job/ service/ work

employ

want ad

smoothness

encounter/ meeting/ rendezvous/ visit/ visitation

visit

rendezvous

guest/ visitor

visiting card

infelicity/ melancholy/ moodiness/ sadness/ vexation

animadversion/ censure/ invective/ lesson/ rebuke/ reproach/ reproaching/ vituperation

reproachful

admonish/ blame/ censure/ condemn

tax

opprobrious

adjoin/ affix/ blend/ collate/ connect/ induct/ intermingle/ intermix/ introduce/ join/ knead/ meld/ mingle/ mix

commix

adulteration

adulteration/ adultery/ debasement/ interfusion/ mixture

adulterate