pride; boast; credit (to)
honor; honour; prestige; dignity; honorary (e.g. president, doctorate)
brilliant; splendid; glorious; magnificent; spectacular
grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment
to stop talking; to be silent
impudence; shamelessness; brazenness; brazen person; shameless person; impudent person
incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling
highest (e.g. floor); top; best; finest; supreme
all's well that ends well; it will all come good in the end
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
individual; private person; personal; natural person
to smile (at); to grin (at)
by the way; incidentally; well; even if; no matter (what, where, how, etc.)
to put in order; to tidy up; to settle (a matter); to solve; to finish; to get through
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
to be all out (e.g. of people); to be all elsewhere; to be all in use (e.g. of cars); to be sold out; to have none left
luggage; baggage; burden; payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to turn over; to turn (pages); to leaf through (a book, etc.); to tear off; to strip off; to take off
clanging; empty; deserted
hateful; detestable; loathsome
watery; soggy; racy; titillating; sexy
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
about this time; about now
to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn
call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.
great; excellent; distinguished; important; awful; terrible
courage; bravery; valour; valor; nerve; boldness
pretending to know; claiming to have an answer
to speak brazenly; to never shut up
yesterday and today; only recently; just recently; only yesterday
shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)
appearance; expression; manifestation
small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow