highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction
article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price
choice; selection; diagnosis; medical opinion; judgement; opinion
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
a blink of time; (lit.) the time it takes to say "Ah!"
to delight; to give pleasure
reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
to etch (name, etc.); to carve (design)
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
star (usu. not including the Sun); planet (usu. not including Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); star (actor, player, etc.); small dot; spot; star point (in go)
to be shy; to be bashful; to feel awkward; to feel embarrassed
attentive to detail; careful; considerate; meticulous; detailed
soft; tender; limp; subdued (colour or light) (color); gentle; meek
to hide; to keep to oneself
anything and everything; just about everything
to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
to sit down; to take a seat
the n-th generation head of a family
hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
hearsay; rumor; grapevine
to call each other; to call out to one another
one's habitual behaviour (behavior)
gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
reputation; respectability
order; sequence; procedure
to put on (another's shoes by mistake); to put (shoes) on the wrong feet; to mistake (one thing for another); to confuse; to have a mistaken idea of
engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you
absolutely; positively; decidedly
to take part in; to be a party to; to side with; to support; to agree with