to hold one's tongue; to shut up
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
mountain range; mountain belt
light; well-lit; bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; cheerful; bright; encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.)
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
(in the process of) connecting
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
main theater of war; principal battlefield
to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl
to hide; to be hidden; to conceal oneself; to disappear
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
English letter; alphabetic character
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
index; index number; exponent (e.g. in floating-point representation); characteristic
detection; sense (e.g. sensor)
threshold (amount, dose, etc.)
to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip
to plunder; to grab; to snatch
to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)
crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; hard and crunchy; very skinny; emaciated
to stare in wonder; to be amazed
strict; close; precise; scrupulous
logic device; logic circuit
sample; example; specimen; display model (e.g. plastic food models used by restaurants)
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
chain reaction; nuclear chain reaction
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
recently; lately; these days
insertion; incorporation; infixing
to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to look fondly at
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)