closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final
abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
teacher; instructor; professor
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
touchstone; Lydian stone; touchstone (e.g. of success); test; litmus test
to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to imagine; to guess; to infer
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
pet saying; favorite phrase (favorite); stock phrase; manner of talking
another helping; second helping; seconds; command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand
desperate measure; last-ditch effort
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
installation (esp. software)
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
permission; allowance; acceptance; tolerance; pardon
intensification; aggravation
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
had better ...; had better not ...
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
the way something ought to be; the (current) state of things; how things are
going ahead; going first; preceding; coming before; scoring first; getting off to a lead
(with a) successful outcome; (ending in) success
successful execution; accomplishment; completion; fulfillment; carrying through
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
organization; organisation; forming
to be flexible; to be accommodating
potentiality; dormancy; latency
to be extremely thorough, focusing on even the finest of details
development; exploitation
magnificent; grand; majestic; splendid
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)
to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply
to pour into; to wash down; to insert (e.g. into a data stream)
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem
to reveal by washing the surface; to expose by washing away dirt, earth, etc.; to discover (by investigation); to bring to light; to start washing