visual confirmation; sighting
interference; intervention; meddling
gentlemanly; well-mannered; well-bred; gentlemanlike
shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper
to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked
bent back; hunchback; stoop
I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
some; few; somewhat; to a certain extent; (arch.) many; (arch.) a lot
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
public relations; client liaison; client relations
proper; right; reasonable
communication skills; communication ability
admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement; self-identification
having very little difference between one another; being much of a muchness; being more or less the same; pointless competition (between two equally unimpressive parties); pissing contest
to sob convulsively; to heave with sobs
guinea pig (Cavia porcellus); subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
with great caution; gingerly
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
minor; small; minor (key, scale, etc.); the minor leagues (US baseball)
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
distortion; falsification; perversion
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter
word; word; Word; Microsoft Word
inconsistency; discord; conflict; discrepancy; contradiction; failure
special directive; special order; special mission; special appointment
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
(stand to) attention!; standing at attention
having in mind; happening to know of; idea
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment
(logical) true; regular; 10^40; ten thousand undecillion; original; positive
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
sensitive (person, heart, etc.); delicate (issue, problem, etc.); sensitive; fragile; delicate; delicate (fabric, shade, flavour, etc.)
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
consent; approval; acceptance; agreement; compliance
to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; one cup after another; cup by cup