• Central parts
• Central points
• Cores
• Emerging antlers
• Essences
• Essential ideas
• Gists
• Gists of the matter
• Hearts
• Hearts of the matter
• Kernels
• Little lumps
• Little pieces
• Lumps
• Lumps, or gists
• Main ideas
• Much-sharpened pencils
• One-inch pencils, for example
• Pencil remains
• Pencil remnants
• Picayune pieces
• Piths
• Points
• Protuberances
• Short pencils
• Small lumps
• Small pieces
• Stunted ends
• Tiny remnants
• Well-worn pencils
• Worn-down pencils
• Worn-down pencils, say
• Central parts
• Central points
• Cores
• Emerging antlers
• Essences
• Essential ideas
• Gists
• Gists of the matter
• Hearts
• Hearts of the matter
• Kernels
• Little lumps
• Little pieces
• Lumps
• Lumps, or gists
• Main ideas
• Much-sharpened pencils
• One-inch pencils, for example
• Pencil remains
• Pencil remnants
• Picayune pieces
• Piths
• Points
• Protuberances
• Short pencils
• Small lumps
• Small pieces
• Stunted ends
• Tiny remnants
• Well-worn pencils
• Worn-down pencils
• Worn-down pencils, say