gorgeous; brilliant; dazzling; ornate; gaudy; flowery
fascination; glamour; glamor; enchantment; seduction
deep gratitude; overwhelming joy; great happiness
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
first and foremost; above all; most importantly of all
tip of a twig; tip; end; trifles; trivial matters
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
rising; developing; emergent; burgeoning; new
unique flavor (flavour); (degree of) flavouring; distinctive quality; special charm
following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with
narrow-minded; intolerant; petty
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute
to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember
social awareness (e.g. in fiction)
postulate; given conditions; data
sensible; sensuous; intuitive
personality; individuality; TV personality; celebrity
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
different thing; another question; different case
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-
looking like (someone); taking after (either of one's parents)
advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about