ornamental (foliage) plant; houseplant
check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
favorable treatment; favourable treatment; hospitality; warm reception; good treatment; hearty welcome
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
tough; strong; stiff; tenacious
petrifaction; petrification; mineralization; mineralisation; lithification; fossilization
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to hug tight; to grasp firmly; to embrace tightly
commerce; trade; business
perforation; punching; boring; drilling
bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste
to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)
hard-to-use space (in an apartment, etc.); dead space (artillery, etc.); (respiratory) dead space
lying face down; lying on one's face; placing upside down; placing face down
rigour; rigor; closeness; compactness; tightly knit
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
printing; typing; printed character; typed character; character(s) carved onto a seal
catalogue; catalog; inventory; certificate indicating an impending gift
point where one has to accept one's fate; point where one has to give up; state of resignation; resigned state
recklessness; daredevilry; rashness; (arch.) long-lasting
to mistake one thing for another; to mix up two things; to confuse two things; to misunderstand; to misapprehend
disconnection; interruption; burn-out
sleeping like a log; (being) fast asleep (bombed, crashed)
cool; indifferent; apathetic; cold; cold-hearted; heartless
true character; true heart; true spirit
relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen
to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain
beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive
furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking
addition; adding; supplement
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
exceptional; praiseworthy; laudable