common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition
regarding highly; attaching importance to
refugee; exile; displaced persons
(not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least; (not) in the slightest
to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
writing; composition; essay; sentence
800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
pent-up resentment; grudges and hard feelings
parents and siblings; one's relatives
merciless; ruthless; pitiless; unfeeling
to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over
silence; stillness; quietness
to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with
silence (not speaking); muteness
refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; shapely; neatly; cleanly; without trouble; clearly
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
life and death; life or death
unqualified; without qualifications
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
special someone; special person; precious one; significant other
close; intimate; on good terms
keeping things tidy and in order
until now; so far; up to the present
battlefield; battleground
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
businesslike; professional
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
advantage; benefit; merit; good point; plus
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
sentiment; emotions; one's feelings; one's heart
diagnosis; medical examination
device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity
one theory (opinion); another theory (opinion)
inference; deduction; induction; reasoning
funny story; funny anecdote
one cause; one reason; one factor
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
to relax; to make oneself comfortable
to die out; to become extinct
to sit upright; to sit up straight; to take a defiant attitude; to become aggressive; to take the offensive
responsibility; duty; obligation