to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation
to flatter; to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to suck up (to); to toady (to)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
to lend an ear; to hearken; to give an ear to; to listen carefully
to spend all of one's time in idle amusement
to be attacked by a disease
to get hold of; to take possession of; to seize
to be ill; to suffer from; to have trouble doing ...; to be unable to ...; to fail to ...
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
self-indulgence; doing as one pleases
hound; hunting dog; gun dog
ferocious; fierce; truculent; savage
anguished; distressed; worried; horny
to die out; to become extinct
cramp; sprain; unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical; unreasonable
wall of people; crowd of people lined up (e.g. spectators); throng of people
stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause
to knock down; to knock off
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
to hate each other; to hate mutually
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
to chide; to rebuke; to reprove
to force (someone) to take part; to take along unwillingly
long-cherished ambition; satisfaction
to kill; to choke the life out of
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together
please!; I'm asking you; for heaven's sake
you (plural); all of you; you all
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
unkempt hair; disheveled hair; tousled hair
munching; crunching; scratching (an itch)
it is none of one's business; it is not one's place to say (do) something
sense of urgency; feeling of high tension