hospitalization; hospitalisation
prognostic symptoms; after-effect
gloomy; melancholy; pessimistic
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
flying; false start; doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric
insult; affront; slight; contempt (e.g. of court)
trouble; quarrel; dispute
birds of a feather flock together
conversation; conference (usu. between important people); discussion; interview
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
to repent; to regret; to be sorry; to rue
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all
deliberation; (thoughtful) consideration; to consider a matter carefully
dissatisfaction; discontent; disapproval; objection; complaint; protest
direct talks; direct negotiations; talking to somebody in person
notification; pre-1886 administrative order
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
to concern; to be related
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
pent-up resentment; grudges and hard feelings
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
possible; likely; probable
writing (e.g. as a profession)
appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; picking out; singling out
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
important task; important role; major part (in a film, play, etc.); leading role; high-scoring combination
neck; bottleneck; obstruction; neckline
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
corridor; hallway; passageway
collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection
depending on; dependent on
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)