effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
objection; refutation; rebuttal; counterargument
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
to express (in words); to confess
willpower; energy; vitality
consequence; outcome; result; blame
(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
area; domain; territory; field; range; region
interference; intervention; meddling
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
rather; better; instead; if anything
to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
avenue; boulevard; tree-lined street
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
to project; to reflect; to cast (shadow)
confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
article; news story; report; account
to some extent; to a certain extent
everything; anything; nothing
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at
corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to; appropriate; suitable; to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with
westernmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)