selection; choice; option
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
one's future; one's fate; one's way; one's path
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
inheritance; bequest; legacy; heritage
if so; in that case; in that situation
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
proof; evidence; certificate; license; to testify (usu. Christian religious context); enlightenment
literary criticism; book review
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
contemporary literature; modern literature
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people
postwar period; period after Second World War
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
Elliot (South Africa); Eliot; Eliott; Elyot
to get someone to say; to make someone say; to let someone say; to let someone speak out; to make a sound
this for sure; certainly is
function; facility; faculty; feature
design (on a banner); emblem (on a flag); insignia; banner (e.g. of democracy); slogan; cause
ground; crust (earth); foundation (building, etc.); base; constituency; power base
systematization; systematisation; organization; organisation
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial