blood relationship; blood relative
connection; link; relationship
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
letting (someone) die without helping
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
precondition; prerequisite
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on
deadly serious; deadly earnest
to play a central role; to take a leading part
to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with
matter to be checked or investigated
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
to break; to tear; to pierce; to split; to burst
source of electricity; electrical power; power (button on TV, etc.)
device; equipment; machinery; apparatus
three; three years of age
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
to be oversensitive; to be nervous; to be overly concerned; to worry too much
to be fickle; to be frivolous; to be flippant; to be flighty; to be giddy; to be restless
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
fire fighting; extinguishing a fire
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
report; notification; tip; message (in information and communication theory)
operation; functioning; running
deployment; disposition; posting; stationing
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
tone of voice; mimicry; imitative voice
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
middle and high-school students
metallic sound; metallic clank
to freeze (from fear, etc.); to be unable to move (e.g. from surprise); to be paralyzed (with horror, etc.); to cower; to shrink in on oneself
use; utilization; utilisation; application
robber; mugger; robbery; burglary