interval between the waves; gap between waves
to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things
clumsiness; awkwardness; ineptitude
origin; beginning; genesis; primeval; primordial; primitive
crystal; crystallization; crystallisation; fruits (of labor, union, etc.)
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
to have a certain mood or feeling; to have a hunch
failure (i.e. an unsuccessful work); flop; dud; bomb
mistress; kept woman; concubine
to conclude; to decide; to determine; to judge
haughty; arrogant; supercilious
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
plus; addition; positive (number); plus sign; positive symbol; advantage; plus
minus; subtraction; negative (number); deficit; loss; disadvantage; drawback
one's every action; every single move; slight effort; least trouble; small amount of work
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
confronting directly; meeting face-to-face
to rub; to scrub; to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.); to milk; to mash (a button); to spam (a move)
leaving (on, open, unfinished, etc.); (doing) continuously; constantly; keep ...-ing
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
ornamental (foliage) plant; houseplant
having no choice but to ...; all one can do is ...; there's nothing to do except ...; having nothing but ...; there is only ...; having only ...
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
on the contrary; rather; instead; all the more
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
(place) near by; (place) close by; (place) right next to; as soon as; right after
to get hungry; to become hungry