release (from custody); discharge; liberation; setting free; letting go; letting off
cold reception; unwelcoming treatment
applying (e.g. a technology); adoption
to take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
public (attention, recognition, etc.); social (standing, acceptance, etc.); worldly (fame, desires, etc.)
good young man; agreeable youth
rubbing the wrong way (e.g. a cat); irritating
record of proceedings; minutes
last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier
to raise an objection; to voice an opinion different from those of others
to be rested; to feel at ease; to repose; to be relieved
busy; having no (free) time
exemption; exoneration; discharge
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
chalice (for Holy Communion); Holy Chalice; Holy Grail
superintendent; supervisor; warden
politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure
planned; scheduled; systematic
to make a speech; to address
quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
polish; improvement; burnishing
scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick
shall ...; to assume; to suppose
to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
obsession; unreasonable but compulsive idea
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
common; commonplace; reckless; pulp paper; granulated sugar; (arch.) coins
convulsion; cramp; spasm; tic; twitch; fit
search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry
six (long cylindrical things)
to become clear; to be made public
offender; criminal; culprit
blunder; fault; error; mistake; failure; disgrace
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up