to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
crown (of creation); apex; the best
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
actually; in fact; as a matter of fact
society; public; community; social studies
the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed
literature; books (reference); document
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
accumulation; accumulate; store
the Industrial Revolution
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
witnessing; observing; sighting
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
(some) more; even more; longer; further
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to cut up; to cut and discard; to eliminate systematically (in fault-finding); to isolate
that's the way it is; such is life
to be playful; to gambol; to be amused (with something); to flirt with
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
one day; (on) a certain day
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
while; during (the time when)
folding into four; quarto
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
slightly; lightly; thinly; faintly; dimly
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
to be transparent; to show through
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine