badness; evilness; bad; evil
everyday life; daily life
to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
calm; composed; self-possessed; firm
outside of one's area of expertise
field; sphere; realm; division; branch
ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
to confide; to reveal; to disclose; to lay bare; to speak frankly; to open (one's heart)
job hunting; job searching
proof; testimony; demonstration; verification; certification
by sheer strength; by brute force
complete devotion; body and soul; one's best
to trip (over); to stumble; to fail; to suffer a setback
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
to respond; to satisfy; to accept; to comply with; to apply for
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
comfortably; peacefully; with one's mind at ease; (growing) quickly
owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)
performance; take; game; season; penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)
not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
to pretend to be tough; to put on a brave front; to whistle in the dark; to bluff
life plan; plan for one's life; planning one's life
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited; listless
to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
all you want; as much as one wants
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; I don't get it; I'm confused; I'm lost
thickly; viscously; stickily; sleepily; drowsily; dozing off
wedded life; married life
dream for the future; hopes for the future