near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
grace; favor; favour; blessing; benefit
essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic
river; stream; River; the ... river
to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)
volume of water (in a river, pond, flood, etc.)
to dry up; to parch; to ebb away
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
to float; to rise to the surface; to stand out; to be visible; to be alienated
to accrete; to become whole; to come together
to fill (with); to be filled with; to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)
mankind; the human creature; fellow creatures
complicated and mysterious
to keep in mind; to bear in mind; to try; to aim to do; to endeavor; to endeavour
disorder; disturbance; unrest
fluent (in a language); flowing
being absorbed in; losing oneself in; losing control of oneself
load; heavy burden; encumbrance; heavy freight; heavy responsibility
carjack; carjacking; car hijacking
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
labored breathing; laboured breathing; dyspnea; dyspnoea
confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
fork; junction; parting of the ways; turning point
to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue
overflowing; effusive; exuberant; bountiful
to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution
scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation
to run past from behind; to run through (e.g. gate, one's mind)