ceremony; rite; ritual; service
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
of course; certainly; naturally
winding; meandering; wriggling; wiggling; waving; swaying
to blush; to go red in the face; to change color; to change colour
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
wholehearted; earnest; determined; intent; single-minded; straightforward
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
to crumble away; to collapse
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
strange occurrence; unusual occurrence; unexpected occurrence; grave and unexpected occurrence
to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very
random; unintentional; unintended
heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate
burly; strong; indomitable; indefatigable; robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc.); strong
to leave (someone) alone; to leave to oneself; to leave (someone) be
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
any of; either of; (to) any
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
menu; bill of fare; program; programme; schedule
abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)
calculation; self-interest; selfishness
merciless; ruthless; pitiless; unfeeling
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
same; similar; (just) like; equal
names and natures do often agree
to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice
in name only; figurehead; (only) by name