painstaking piece of work; work of great effort; tour de force; toil; labor; labour
sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity
skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy; squabble; quarrel; brief argument
with difficulty; faltering; tottering; awkward
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
conjecture; guesswork; guess
to cheat someone out of; to wangle; to get; to obtain
gold certificate; tradeable coupon redeemable for goods or services
lasting quality; good wearing ability; going a long way
fanatic; fanatic believer; zealot
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
essential part; indispensable part; unavoidable part; front and back matter (of a book, magazine, etc.)
petty underling; small fry
tissue paper; facial tissue; paper handkerchief
silk or leather container for paper handkerchiefs, medicine, toothpicks, etc.
fruit knife; paring knife
to hide; to conceal; to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard; to become quiet and inconspicuous
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
to take a fancy to something; to be moved; to feel inclined to
innocence; guiltlessness; purity; uprightness; integrity
foolish; nonsensical; absurd; ridiculous; trifling
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
slight cold; bit of a cold; touch of a cold; lingering cold
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
to keep one's temper; to maintain one's composure; to remain calm; to keep presence of mind; to preserve one's equilibrium
coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
sound of something falling
to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on; to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to
first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move; forestalling; (seizing the) initiative