cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
testimony; (verbal) evidence
mass communication; mass media
ten; 10; ten years of age
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
blood relative; close relation; (one's) flesh and blood; flesh and blood; the body
silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling
younger brother; little brother; brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) apprentice
paste; glue; clothing starch
heavy (feeling, etc.); gloomy (weather, etc.); oppressive (atmosphere, etc.); stifling; strained
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to
munching; crunching; scratching (an itch)
to have tears in one's eyes; to be close to crying
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other
to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
staying up late; keeping late hours; sitting up late at night; nighthawk
desire; want; will; wish; urge; craving
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
like everyone else; like most people; like an ordinary person; as much as anyone else
to have one's heart stop beating; to be shocked; to be staggered
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
to become pale; to turn pale
(beating someone) hands down; with a single blow
almost every day; almost daily
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence
babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper
shameless; brazen and unscrupulous
monologue; soliloquy; German (language)
to act up (machine); to go out of tune (instrument); to not work right; to be knocked off stride; to lose one's bearings; to lose one's presence of mind
returning from school; going home from school
holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night
January; first month of the lunar calendar
horizon (related to land)
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
to bedaub (with paint); to besmear; to paint heavily; to spread thickly
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how