failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
phantom; vision; illusion
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes
reality; actuality; hard fact
the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique
component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
shudder; shiver; trembling with fear
to dwell; to live; to stay at; to take shelter at; to be pregnant; to be part of a constellation
nevertheless; at any rate; even so; all things considered; be that as it may
Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star
true to one's name; living up to one's name
favourite child; favourite student; apple of one's eye
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
don't be absurd; that's out of the question; nonsense; don't mention it
modesty; humility; being humble
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
absolute; complete; utter; pure; sheer
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
even though; despite; when
fortunately; luckily; thankfully
absorption; suction; attraction
astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful
worthy of special mention
to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)
emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence
release; emission; ejection
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
numerator; molecule; member; element
ionization; ionisation; electrolytic dissociation
nature; the natural world; realm of nature
comparatively; relatively
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized