grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
to look (sound, behave) grown-up; to be adult-like; to mature
charming; fascinating; attractive
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
even more; still more; one layer; lowest floor (of a building); rather; sooner
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
to tighten; to fasten tight; to constrict; to control strictly; to put pressure on; to squeeze (e.g. an economy)
lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say
true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience
to get irritated; to get annoyed; to be on the edge; to fret; to lose patience
to look away; to avert one's eyes; to avoid facing (e.g. reality)
to be broken; to break; to break (down); to stop working; to fall through (of a plan, deal, etc.); to collapse
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
paralysis; palsy; numbness; loss of sensation; standstill; state of paralysis
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
to choose (and take); to select; to pick (out)
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
absorption; suction; aspiration; attraction; draw
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
uprooting; pulling up (a plant) by the roots; eradicating; rooting out; all (destroyed, stolen, etc.); completely
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
it says ...; it reads ...; ... is written
depths of Hell; abyss; inescapable situation
split; division; break up
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
contradiction; inconsistency
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that ...
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive
to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
even if; even though; although one might say; although called
separation (e.g. of rubbish when recycling); classification; discrimination; division; distinction
fault; defect; flaw; failure (in an examination); failing grade