• chop, cut, paring, shearing, trimming
• to pull, to pull the ball
• effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expeditious, expenditious, fruitful
• share holder, shareholder, stakeholder, stockholder
• to make good, to prove, to prove, proved, proven, to validate, to vindicate
• devious, intricate, tortuous
• miserliness, scantiness