painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
one's heart; at one's discretion; in one's hands
to fold (clothes, umbrella); to close (a shop, business); to vacate
secret; private; surreptitious
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
to entertain; to make welcome
true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
thick; deep; kind; cordial; abundant
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
discipline; training; teaching manners
unaccomplished person; uninteresting person; nobody
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
regrettable; disappointing; precious; dear; too good for; deserving better
boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier
sudden; abrupt; unexpected
handsome youth (male); pretty boy
pretension; conceit; hubris
affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious
affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious
for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
name; given name; first name
to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
to smile (at); to grin (at)
control; restraint; suppression; constraint; curtailment; inhibition
paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
to get excited; to make one's heart leap; to make one's heart pound
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
lattice; counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish); handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)
death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
(how) many times; (how) often
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation