poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
compensation; equivalent value; consideration
to discuss; to talk together
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something
opportunely; conveniently; at the right time
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; impulse
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to notice; to realize; to be attentive; to be scrupulous; to regain consciousness; to come to (one's senses)
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
alteration; falsification; faking
crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue
discharging (electrically; e.g. of a battery); electrical discharge; discharge
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
strenuous effort; hard struggle; working hard; hard fighting; fierce fighting
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
consequence; outcome; result; blame; fault
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to stagnate; to be delayed; to be left undone; to be overdue (of a payment); to fall into arrears; to be outstanding
birth (of a person); nativity; creation; formation; one's first birthday
to change places (with); to be replaced (with, by); to be changed; to change (seats, shifts, etc.; with someone); to switch; to exchange
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
results (of a study or investigation)
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
to be flabbergasted; to be dumbfounded
inner canthus; inner corner of the eye
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
to speak ill of; to disparage
not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext