careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
utterance; speaking; vocalization; leading a group of people (in cheering, singing, etc.)
absentmindedness; peace of mind
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
public (attention, recognition, etc.); social (standing, acceptance, etc.); worldly (fame, desires, etc.)
act of obscenity; obscene act; lewd act; indecent act; indecent conduct; indecent behavior
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty
nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
guidance; leading; induction; introduction; incitement; inducement
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to be seen from the point of view of an onlooker
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...
instead; but (on the other hand)
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
shyness; bashfulness; shame
play; recreation; play (theatre); performance; staging; praying
don't you think?; indicates question
decorum; propriety; politeness
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
suddenly; all of a sudden
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
chattering (teeth); (frozen, worried) stiff; rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause
stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification
to relax; to release tension from one's muscles; to let go limp
to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)
to lean on; to recline on; to rely on; to depend on
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
Not a word to anyone; Mum's the word