to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
hatred; abhorrence; loathing; detestation
to work hard at; to devote oneself to; to be diligent in
to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person
work-in-progress; working state
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
one of these days; someday; one day
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
unexpectedly; unusually; considering all that
patriotic feelings; patriotism
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
school education; formal education
scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick
(as for (that)) thing; (given (that)) thing; matter; (it is a ...) thing; matter; fact
to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth
certain; unmistaken; evident; obvious; beyond doubt
passage; path; route; one's way
best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent
cooperation; collaboration
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
to wait eagerly for; to look forward to
pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of
recorder (e.g. tape recorder, time recorder); recording device; recorder (musical instrument); English flute
to start writing; to begin (a book, letter, etc.)
to steal a glance; to intercept and read (e.g. other people's email)
material (data) for one's research; research material
all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
completion; conclusion; perfect (tense, form, aspect)
unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short
unnecessary; not needed; not necessary