blunder; miss; slip; oversight
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
setting; installing; setting up (meeting, conference, etc.); stage setting; setting (of a novel, movie, play, etc.)
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
sports ground; sports oval
giving a loud pep talk; encouraging (somebody) strongly in a loud voice
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation
unexpectedly; surprisingly
to lie down; to throw oneself down
from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); entirely; completely
indeed; really; truly; very much
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to abbreviate; to omit; to take; to capture
weekend carpenter; do-it-yourselfer
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...