(committing, resorting to) an act of violence
taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set
coffee shop; tearoom; coffee lounge; coffeehouse; cafe
to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away
ice cream soda; icecream soda
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
childish; child-like; immature; infantile
reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse
what's the best thing to do?; what to do?
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
flurried; flustered; upset; nervous; embarrassed
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
nodding (in agreement, with approval, etc.); repeatedly nodding and dozing off; suddenly (dying); deep (flavor, flavour, color, colour, etc.); rich
to meddle; to poke one's nose into; to interfere; to make a pass at; to flirt with; to make a move on
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
house; one's house; one's home; one's family
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
to dart one's eyes about; to be surprised; to be bewildered; to be confused; to be flustered
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
travel to relieve heartbreak; sentimental journey
don't worry about it; forget about it
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
adultery; immorality; impropriety; (an) affair
tight-lipped; able to keep a secret
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
contradiction; inconsistency
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
to master (e.g. a skill); to become accustomed to (e.g. a lifestyle); to acquire (e.g. a habit); to retain
lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question); lead up; pretence (pretense); show; pretending (to)
ice; ice cream; icecream; (arch.) usurer; (arch.) usury
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
courting; wooing; making advances
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
order picking (taking goods from a warehouse to fulfil customer orders); lock picking; picking (a guitar, banjo, etc.)
to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
change; conversion; transformation; transformation