silence; keeping silent; giving no notice; giving no warning; wordless pantomime performed in the dark (in kabuki)
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
dotage; feeble-minded old man; senile old fool; dotard
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
day after day; day in and day out; every single day
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; one paragraph
to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour
to become decrepit and ugly with age
impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag
practice; practising; experience
urbanization; urbanisation
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
to begin to fall (rain, etc.)
relatively quickly (esp. actions); quite suddenly (esp. wind, rain, etc.)
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
groan; moan; roar; howl; hum (e.g. motor); buzz (e.g. bee, wire in wind)
pensive; meditative; wistful
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
laconic; of few words; reticent; quiet
to breathe heavily (e.g. with much movement of the shoulders)
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
until now; so far; up to the present
be (that) as it may; having said that
to volunteer; to undertake a challenge
old age; old person; the old; the aged
transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above
as one expects; as one wants; to one's satisfaction; as one sees fit
sadness; sorrow; grief; (arch.) affection; (arch.) love
to one's heart's content; following one's heart's desires
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time