care; precaution; guarding; caution
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
attendant; person who looks after one's needs; caretaker
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to like; to love; to be fond of
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
enquiry; inquiry; query; interrogation; ENQ
head; brains; intelligence
sending; forwarding; shipping
designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at
slip of the pen; mistake in writing; misspelling; lapsus calami
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
intricate workmanship; delicate handiwork; cheap trick; petty trick; obvious stratagem
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
older brother; elder brother
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
to seem to be ...; to become like ...; to behave as ...
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
story; tale; talk; discussion
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances
mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity