feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection
persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
to begin talking; to open up
to hit hard; to punch hard; to give a hard blow; to wallop; to sock
great disaster; horrible tragedy; catastrophe; catastrophic event; catastrophic incident; dire calamity
by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment
important matter; matter of great importance; serious affair; major incident; emergency
to stop walking; to pause
relatively; comparatively
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
meaning; connotation; denotation
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
spell; charm; incantation; magic word
to succeed; to bear fruit
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
to take a breath; to take a short rest
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
extent; scope; sphere; range; span
resuscitation; regeneration; reformation; rehabilitation; playback; regeneration (sound, etc.)
cell; cell (in an organization, esp. a communist party)
activation; invigoration; stimulation
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
feeling; sense; impression
for the present; for the time being; for a while (from now); for some time (to come)
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
unusual power; superpower; ability beyond that of humans
to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing