to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
newspaper story (article, account)
being scattered and ultimately lost; dissipation
goods; materials; commodities; resources; supplies
great war; great battle; world war
volume of water kept in store
area of expertise; (one's) field; (one's) line
exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously
to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour
to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent
to wander from place to place; to change jobs
excellent plan; best policy
at the same time; concurrently; simultaneously; coinciding (with)
misfortune; adverse fortune; hapless fate; checkered (life, career, etc.); varied; eventful
warm welcome; friendly reception; hospitality; entertainment
the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
unperturbed; undaunted; retaining composure; unyielding; not giving an inch
cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end
candy fashioned in human and animal forms
too much; excessively; too
to be too numerous; to be too much
underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap
survival; remaining; being extant; being left
to scatter a room (with things); to leave a room a mess; to leave things lying about
landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household
to bend a bow; to shoot an arrow; to rise up against; to rebel against
scuttling (to escape in a panic, in shame, etc.); scurrying; scrambling
dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine
to confess one's love; to profess one's feelings
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
as likely as not; 50-50; even match; tie