bedridden; confined to bed
important position; strategic point; important point; main point; essentials
utensil; implement; tool; instrument; appliance; apparatus
to be haggard; to be gaunt; to be emaciated; to be worn out (e.g. illness, worry)
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
electricity; (electric) light
distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
spine; backbone; spinal column
to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper; to clench one's teeth; to grit one's teeth
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember
look!; there!; here!; that is
to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade
intellectual level; level of intelligence
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
placid; composed; big hearted; broad-minded; great quantity (of something)
to punish (e.g. a child, etc.)
to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate
mental derangement; mental confusion; alienation
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
to hold back (e.g. emotions); to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people); to get the better of; to control; to command
false charge; false accusation; misrepresentation
newspaper story (article, account)
depressed in spirits; dispirited; disheartened; rejection
assertion; declaration; affirmation
disturbance; trouble; ups and downs
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
good prospects; full of hope; promising
to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out
reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)
meaning; connotation; denotation
embodying; expressing concretely
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever