faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) very; (not) much
chain (of); series (of); sequence; suite (e.g. of rooms)
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply
container; case; receptacle; coffin; casket
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
fee; charge; rate; material
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene
to be discouraged (from doing something); to have one's enthusiasm dampened
to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way; to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
the same generation; coeval
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
challenging (an unknown person); asking a person's identity
insipid; flat; dull; lifeless; listless
sleep-talking; nonsense; gibberish
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
victory; triumph; conquest; success; win
to stiffen; to become stiff
something; some kind of; for some reason
to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)
heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; disappointed