quicksands
111sandbar — Synonyms and related words: ait, archipelago, atoll, bank, bar, cay, continental island, coral head, coral heads, coral island, coral reef, flat, ford, holm, insularity, ironbound coast, island, island group, islandology, isle, islet, key, ledges …
112shoal — Synonyms and related words: a mass of, a world of, ankle deep, army, bank, bar, barrier, bevy, bunch, cloud, clutter, colony, coral heads, coral reef, covey, cursory, depthless, drift, drive, drove, epidermal, flat, flight, flock, flocks, ford,… …
113snag — Synonyms and related words: baby tooth, bag, bar, bicuspid, blemish, block, blockade, bottleneck, brake, bucktooth, bug, canine, catch, clog, cog, comb, complication, coral heads, cordon, crack, crag, crimp, crown, crux, curb, curtain, cuspid,… …
114snake in the grass — Synonyms and related words: Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, abomination, archtraitor, atrocity, bad, bane, befoulment, betrayer, blight, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, coral heads, corruption, crying evil …
115undercurrent — Synonyms and related words: affect, affection, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current, allegory, allusion, ambiance, ambience, arcane meaning, assumption, atmosphere, aura, bucking, challenge, coloration, concourse, confluence, conflux,… …
116undertow — Synonyms and related words: affluence, afflux, affluxion, concourse, confluence, conflux, coral heads, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, ironbound coast,… …
117PANAMA CANAL — Geographers were familiar with the idea of connecting the two oceans by a canal through Central America as early as the beginning of the 16th century, and Dutch plans are said to exist dating from the 17th century. The first practical steps… …
118Pitfall — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Source of danger. < N PARAG:Pitfall >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 rocks rocks reefs coral reef sunken rocks snags Sgm: N 1 sands sands quicksands Sgm: N 1 syrt| syrt| syrtis| …
119Difficulty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Difficulty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 difficulty difficulty Sgm: N 1 hardness hardness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impracticability impracticability &c.(impossibility) 471 Sgm: N 1 tough work tough work hard work uphil …
120knucklehead — stupid person, 1890, American English, from KNUCKLE (Cf. knuckle) (n.) + HEAD (Cf. head) (n.). That infernal knuckle head at the camp ought to have reported before now, he thought to himself, as he smoked. [Charles H. Shinn, The Quicksands of… …
