wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)
evening; early night hours
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
solitarily; in a lonely fashion; all alone; by oneself
to be silent; to say nothing
narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
deceased father; late father
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
face; looks; vestiges; trace
not only ... but (also); as well as ...
to number more than ten; to be numerous
adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)
disappointing (end, result, etc.); sad; miserable; tragic; fleeting; transient
to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite
one person; another name; nickname; alias
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.); suggestively; broadly; sneeringly
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
difference; variation; difference
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
that's the way it is; such is life
comfort; consolation; diversion
in low spirits; dejected; sad
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
light; lamp; obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
old name for a cave cricket; even though; despite; even more
color of flames; colour of flames
thin; slender; fine; unlucky
source of fire; sign of fire; warmth of fire; heat