to leak (urine, feces); to soil one's pants; to dump (untreated waste, sewage, etc.); to discharge (untreated effluent); to leak (information, secrets, etc.); to bleed (a deficit, losses, etc.)
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)
to fling off; to throw off; to cast aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
to open one's eyes wide (in anger, surprise, etc.); to goggle at
certain; sure; no doubt; reliable; dependable
much less; to say nothing of
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
general idea; concept; notion
device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity
fluent (in a language); flowing
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
ground; earth's surface; land; lot; plot
engraving a seal; engraved seal; engraving; inscribing; brand (i.e. a mark of disgrace); stamp
black and white; right and wrong
to paint in different colors (for different purposes) (colours)
to allot; to assign; to give; to provide; to fit to; to fasten to
just managing; with great difficulty
to take back; to get back; to regain; to recover; to restore; to recoup
to crack; to be cracked; to develop a crack
dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
to divide; to separate; to partition; to punctuate; to mark off (with a comma); to insert pauses (between words or phrases when reading aloud)
to come true (of a dream, wish, etc.); to be realized; to be fulfilled; to be granted; to be answered (of a prayer); to be requited (of love)
fierce; intense; severe; very; extremely; terribly
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
to sense; to infer; to gather; to pick up on; to get wind of; to perceive
to polish up (on); to refine; to hone; to polish (by rubbing)
to run into (room, building, etc.); to go for long training runs