THESAURUS
scab
abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blackleg, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cicatrize, close up, cold sore, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crust, deface, defacement, defect, deform, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, effloresce, encrust, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fink, fistula, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, granulate, gumboil, heal, heal over, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, incrust, incrustation, keloid, kibe, kink, knit, lentigo, lesion, loricate, mar, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, pastry shell, petechia, piecrust, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rat, rift, right itself, rising,
scab over, scale, scar, scarify, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set, shell, soft chancre, sore, split, stalactite, stalagmite, stigma, strawberry mark, strikebreaker, sty, suppuration, swelling, track, tubercle, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound
ROGET THESAURUS
scab
Tergiversation
N
tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish,
scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.