road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
to stop by; to drop in for a short visit
rain cover; tarpaulin; covering against rain; taking shelter from rain
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart
to tumble down; to roll down
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
to cut corners; to be shoddy
affirmation; affirmative (logic)
reservation; putting on hold; deferment
clumsy; awkward; tactless; awkward (e.g. socially); (arch.) mean; (arch.) cowardly
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity
excitement; exasperation; indignation; rage; fury
tip of nose; before one's eyes; under one's nose; tip (of something)
with intense concentration; eagerly; intently; devouringly
in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
there's but a fine line between genius and insanity
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate