This list of synonyms constitutes the main body of a work made in the abandoned Great Synagogue
of Wolmarans Street in Johannesburg, South Africa in March 2009.
It is explained here: http://www.transcri.be/2009AN.html#157
Dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, loss, privation, destitution, disadvantage, hardship,
indigence, lack, necessity, need, neediness, poverty, want, accident, adversity, affliction, asperity,
austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort,
distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery,
misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, apartheid, discrimination, racism,
separation, break, dedomiciling, departure, detachment, disconnection, disengagement, disjunction,
disrelation, dissociation, dissolution, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, embarkation,
estrangement, farewell, gap, leave-taking, parting, parting of the ways, partition, pffft, rift, rupture,
segregation, severance, split, split-up, breach, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, damage,
division, fissure, gap, rent, rift, rima, rimation, rime, rip, rupture, separation, slash, slit, tear, breach,
break, crack, damage, fissure, gash, hole, imperfection, laceration, mutilation, rent, run, rupture,
scratch, split, tatter, breach, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, damage, division, fissure, gap,
rent, rift, rima, rimation, rime, rip, rupture, separation, slash, slit, tear, break, chasm, cleft,
discontinuity, divide, division, fracture, hole, rift, schism, separation, severance, split, valley, basin,
bottom, canyon, channel, coulee, dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, gorge, lowland, notch, plain,
swale, trough, vale, dale, dell, dingle, glen, abyss, arroyo, canyon, chasm, cleft, clough, clove,
crevasse, fissure, flume, gap, glen, gulch, pass, ravine, hole, aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave,
cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent,
depression, dimple, dip, excavation, eyelet, fissure, foramen, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow,
hovel, keyhole, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole,
perforation, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear,
tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window, difficulty, dilemma, emergency, fix, imbroglio, impasse, jam,
mess, pickle, plight, quandary, scrape, spot, tangle, cessation, corner, cul-de-sac, dead end,
deadlock, dilemma, fix, gridlock, jam, mire, morass, pause, pickle, plight, predicament, quandary,
rest, scrape, standoff, standstill, blank wall, blind alley, corner, draw, impasse, nowhere to turn,
obstacle, road block, stalemate, standoff, stumbling block, wall, bar, barricade, barrier, block,
blockade, bulwark, curb, dam, embankment, enclosure, facade, fence, fortification, hindrance,
hurdle, impediment, levee, limitation, palisade, panel, paneling, parapet, partition, rampart,
restriction, retainer, roadblock, screen, side, stockade, stop, surface, bar, block, check,
circumspection, condition, constraint, control, cramp, curb, definition, drawback, impediment,
inhibition, injunction, modification, obstruction, qualification, reservation, restriction, snag, stint,
stricture, taboo, anathema, banned, beyond the pale, disapproved, forbidden, frowned on, illegal, off
limits, out of bounds, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, reserved, restricted, ruled out, unacceptable,
unmentionable, unthinkable, absurd, beyond belief, beyond possibility, exceptional, extraordinary,
illogical, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, insupportable, out of the
question, outlandish, preposterous, rare, singular, unbelievable, uncommon, unimaginable, unique,
unlikely, unordinary, unreasonable, off the wall, asinine, batty, crazy, daft, double talk, doublespeak,
fatuous, flaky, foolish, idiotic, illogical, imbecilic, inane, incongruous, inconsistent, insignificant,
irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, moronic, nonsensical, nutty, pointless, purportless, purposeless,
ridiculous, simple, stupid, trivial, unimportant, unintelligent, unmeaning, unreasonable, unsound,
unwise, childish, foolhardy, foolish, ill-advised, ill-considered, immature, impolitic, improvident,
imprudent, inadvisable, inane, inappropriate, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, misguided, naive, rash,
reckless, senseless, short-sighted, silly, thoughtless, undesirable, unfortunate, unintelligent,
unsound, witless, ailing, crazed, dangerous, decrepit, defective, delicate, demented, deranged,
diseased, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, fragile, frail, ill, illogical, in poor health,
inaccurate, incongruous, incorrect, infirm, insane, insecure, insubstantial, invalid, lunatic, mad, not
solid, rickety, shaky, specious, tottering, unbacked, unbalanced, unhealthy, unhinged, unreliable,
unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, unwell, weak, wobbly, counterfactual, erroneous, false,
faulty, flawed, imprecise, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, inexact, mistaken, not trustworthy,
out, specious, unfitting, unreliable, unseemly, unsound, unsuitable, untrue, cheating, deceitful,
deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, dissembling, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false,
fictitious, forsworn, hollow, imprecise, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying,
meretricious, misleading, mistaken, out of line, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, recreant,
specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal, betraying, catchy,
deceitful, deceptive, double-crossing, duplicitous, faithless, false, false-hearted, insidious,
misleading, perfidious, recreant, snake in the grass, traitorous, sinuous, twisted, awry, bent, braided,
contorted, curled, gnarled, tangled, twined, twisting, wrenched, bent, contorted, crooked, deformed,
distorted, gnarly, knurled, leathery, rough, rugged, tortured, twisted, abandonment, demission,
quitclaim, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, surrender, waiver, abdication, disclaimer,
foregoing, postponement, refusal, rejection, relinquishment, remission, renunciation, reservation,
homeland, fatherland, home, motherland, central, down home, familiar, family, homely, homey,
household, in one's element, in the bosom, inland, internal, local, national, native, built-in,
congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional, endemic, essential, fundamental, genuine,
hereditary, implanted, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherited, instinctive, intrinsic,
inveterate, inwrought, natal, natural, original, real, unacquired, wild, essential, hereditary, inbred,
indigenous, indwelling, ingenerate, ingrained, inherent, inherited, innate, instinctive, intrinsic,
intuitive, native, unacquired, ancestral, bequeathed, family, genealogical, genetic, handed down,
heritable, inborn, inbred, inheritable, inherited, lineal, maternal, paternal, patrimonial, traditional,
transmissible, transmitted, willed, ancestors, hereditary, inherited, congenital, connate, genetic,
handed down, in the blood, in the genes, passed down, rooted, based on, deep, entrenched,
established, firm, fixed, grounded, dug in, firm, fixed, fortified, rooted, deep-rooted, deep-seated,
entrenched, hard-shell, ineradicable, ingrained, inveterate, irradicable, set, departer, drifter,
emigrant, evacuee, expatriate, gypsy, immigrant, itinerant, migrator, mover, nomad, rover, tinker,
transient, traveler, vagrant, wanderer, drifter, floater, homeless person, itinerant, rolling stone, street
person, afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on
foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, traveling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant,
wandering, wayfaring, demission, quitclaim, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, surrender,
waiver, abandonment, desertion, exile, banishment, diaspora, dispersion, displacement, exclusion,
expatriation, expulsion, extradition, migration, ostracism, proscription, relegation, scattering,
separation, deportee, displaced person, expatriate, expellee, fugitive, nonperson, outcast, outlaw,
person without country, refugee, émigré, banish, cast out, displace, dispossess, drive out, eject,
evacuate, expatriate, expel, expulse, extradite, ostracize, oust, outlaw, proscribe, relegate,
disbandment, dispersal, dispersion, dissolution, escape, exodus, circulation, dispersion,
dissemination, departure, egress, emigration, evacuation, exit, exiting, flight, going out, journey,
migration, offgoing, retirement, retreat, withdrawal, adieu, decampment, desertion, embarkation,
emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, expatriation, farewell, going, going away, goodbye, hegira,
parting, clearance, dislodgement, dispossession, ejection, expulsion, kicking out, ouster, removal,
ousting, proscription, purge, relegation, eviction, exclusion, exile, …