first experience (of something); first sexual experience
disturbance; riot; mayhem
to come to an end; to close the curtain
planning; project; plan; design
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
amusing; funny; interesting
bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; tether; fetters
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
(finishing something) suddenly; abruptly
courteous; decorous; polite
upright; honest; faithful; conscientious; sincere
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke
huge; enormous; great big
subtleties; niceties; fine points; subtle; sensitive
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
reason; cause; circumstances
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
nothing but; none other than
to see through; to see the true nature of something
memory; sense; experience
height; acme; extremity; end; limit
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
(walk) briskly; at a brisk pace; quickly
to quicken one's pace (steps)
to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged
to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question
great success; happy result; good result
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
thick; deep; kind; cordial; abundant
denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)
what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement