23. escape, Archaic, scape or 'scape, flight, departure; running away, bolt, decampment, desertion, abandonment, elopement, absquatulation, French leave, retreat, hasty retreat, Sl. disappearing act, Sl. skedaddle, Sl. skedaddling, Sl. scramming; getaway, jailbreak, prisonbreak, Inf. break, Inf. breakout.
24. pace, running pace; jog, trot, jogtrot, dogtrot; canter; lope, high lope; gallop, hand gallop, full gallop, dead run.
25. trip, quick trip, sojourn, visit, short stay; journey, peregrination, excursion, tour; jaunt, outing, junket; expedition, trek, stalk, hike; walk, stroll, ramble, saunter, promenade, sally, turn, perambulation, constitutional; drive, ride, Sunday drive, Inf. whirl, Inf. spin, Inf. joyride, Sl. tool; voyage, cruise, crossing, sail.
26. interval, period, length of time; time, term, duration, while, space; spell, season, round, stretch, fit, Inf. go.
27. amount, quantity, make, making, batch, lot, deal, extent, measure, Inf. heap, Inf. mess; part, portion; number, count, sum; total, whole, sum total, grand total.
28. stream, brook, streamlet, brooklet, creek, Dial. crick, U.S. Dial, kill, rivulet, rill, rindle, runnel or runlet or Dial, rundle, Brit. Dial, beck, Brit. Dial, gill, Scot. and North Eng. sike, Scot. and North Eng. burn; channel, branch, waterway, watercourse.
29. flow, flux, effluence, efflux, outpour; spate, surge, rush, onrush, outrush, gush, outgush, outburst; flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, river; jet, spout, spurt.
30. average, norm, mean, golden mean, medium, happy medium, balance, midpoint, middle, middle course, middle-of-the-road, Latin, via media; rule, generality, par, mainstream, main current, main course; trend, drift, tendency, general tendency, movement, direction, tenor, swing, sign of the times.
31. course, way, procedure, use, usage, order, observance; vogue, mode, fashion; bias, aim, set, leaning, turn, penchant; wont, habit, habitude, attitude; custom, practice, second nature, matter of course, standing procedure, common practice; routine, rut, groove, track, treadmill, rat race, Inf. grind, Inf daily grind.
32. command, control, governance, power, rule, reign; freedom, liberty, license, Archaic, loose, free reign, free course, free hand, carte blanche; latitude, Inf. leeway, room, scope, free scope, long rope or tether.
33. deposit, mineral deposit, quarry, ore bed, dike; vein, lode, rich lode, mother lode; mine, gold mine, bonanza, cornucopia, well, fountain, fount.
34. (all of hosiery) rip, tear, rent, slash, Chiefly Brit. ladder; pull, snag; fray, frazzle.
35. motion, locomotion, passage, advance, progress, forward motion, onward movement; current, tide, drift, flow, flux.
36. continuance, continuation, maintenance, stay, staying power, endurance; permanence, permanency, constancy; persistence, perseverance; extension, prolongation, protraction; currency, popularity, continued popularity.
37. series, sequence, progression, succession, continuum, concatenation, nexus; string, unbroken string, row, set, chain, stream, steady stream.
38. path, pathway, trail, track, beaten path or track,