• to abuse, to flout, to insult
• apprehensive, apt, knowing, knowledgeable, lucid, meaningful, rational, reasonable, reasoned, sensible, smart
• conference, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, tract, tractate, treatise
• scot-free, with a whole skin
• to spell, to spell, spelt
• squarely, unequivocally
• unintelligent, wanting in intelligence
• inside dope, inside information