communication skills; communication ability
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
everybody; every last one of them; all
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
nerve; nerves; sensitivity
to be worn down; to be reduced
to notify; to advise; to inform
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
hot (thing); passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. temper); zealous; enthusiastic; intense
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
to take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
to be unsteady; to reel; to shake; to waver; to be unsettled (feelings, thoughts, etc.)
reliable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising
detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered
to sum up; to summarize; to summarise
in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs
pupil; student; schoolchild
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
discouraged; dispirited; despondent
to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to put an end to; to deliver the final blow; to be the best for A
even if; (it doesn't matter) whether (A or B or ...); whatever; should
the last moment; the very end
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
in that way; like that; that way
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
starting point; origin; origin (of coordinate axes); datum point
to grow up; to become an adult
not necessarily so; is not always true