approval, approbation, OK, blessing; release, waiver, liberty, freedom, leave, special permission; passport, visa, password, ticket, safe-conduct; green light, go-ahead, all clear, clearance, clean bill of health, Rom. Cath. Ch. nihil obstat, Rom. Cath. Ch. imprimatur; free hand, carte blanche, blank check. 25. free ticket, free admission, key, key to the city; permit, free pass, complimentary ticket, Inf. twofer; press card, courtesy card, SI. Annie Oakley. 26. Informal, move, overture, advance, offer, invitation, proposition; wink, look, sly look, come-hither look. 27. state of affairs, state of things, situation, condition, circumstance, position; predicament, plight, SI. fix, pinch, push, rub, straits; dilemma, quandary, perplexity, intricacy; Inf. clutch, SI. jam, SI. hole, Inf. mess; hot water, stew, kettle of fish, SI. pickle, imbroglio, Brit, sticky wicket, cleft stick; emergency, exigency, crisis, urgency, extremity, juncture, closure; impasse, standstill, cul de sac, blind alley, tight corner, checkmate, stalemate; embarrassment, nonplus. 28. sleight, sleight of hand, prestidigitation, legerdemain; jugglery, juggle, trick, trickery, illusion, magic. 29. thrust, lunge, Archaic, foin, stab, jab; cut, cut and thrust, swipe, feint. 30. Sports, throw, hurl, heave, cast; fling, lob, sling, toss, flip, pitch, shot, Inf. peg; Track and Field, put, shot put, Football, lateral pass, forward pass, pitch-out, Tennis, serve. passable, adj. 1. traversable, crossable, penetrable, navigable, fordable; unblocked, unimpeded, unobstructed; open, free, clear.
2. respectable, tolerable, acceptable, adequate; satisfactory, all right, unexceptional; presentable, admissible, allowable, fairly good, Inf. not that good, not bad, not too bad; fair, Inf. no great shakes, mediocre, middling, average, indifferent, so-so, Inf. nothing to write home or brag about; ordinary, common, commonplace, usual, moderate; inferior, second-rate, of sorts, paltry, scant, meager.
3. sound, valid, authentic, orthodox; current, prevailing, recognized. passably, adv. fairly, moderately, tolerably, mildly; rather, somewhat, pretty much, appreciably; relatively, partly, partially, comparatively; to a certain degree or extent, to some degree, to a degree; in a way, in a manner of speaking, after a fashion; at best, at most, at any rate, at least, at worst, passage, n. 1. portion, section, part, bit, article; selection, excerpt, extract, {pi.) analects; paragraph, verse, line, sentence, clause, quotation, citation; chapter, column; fascicle, installment, serial, number.
2. phrase, measure, strain, bar; verse, stanza, division; refrain, response, chorus; ornament, cadence, flourish; theme, melody, air, coda.
3. passing, transition, transit, traverse, crossing; movement, progress, growth, motion, going, transportation; conversion, change, becoming, turning into; switch, shift, changeover; assimilation, assumption, naturalization, acclimatization; migration, transmigration, emigration, immigration, deportation.
4. permission, allowance, vouchsafement, authorization; right, privilege, authority, grant, warrant, license; passport, ticket, visa, safe-conduct; freedom, liberty, unconstraint, leave; entry, access, entrde, admission.
5. route, course, set, career; trail, path, track, road; channel, canal, conduit, duct, artery, capillary; ditch, furrow, trough, trench, gutter, anfractuosity, Mining. adit; defile, tunnel, channel, ingress, way through; ravine, pass, gully, gulch, crevasse, canyon, narrows; Phys. Geog. col, vale, valley, cwm, cirque; neck, bottleneck, isthmus, spit.