to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
riddled with holes; full of holes; full of flaws; full of loopholes; faulty
consideration; inquiry; enquiry; investigation; study
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
remaining silent; keeping secret
at least; at most; (even) just
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
to wake up; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
physical condition; state of health
with a snap; (break) cleanly; (reject) sternly; flatly; smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)
petrifaction; petrification; mineralization; mineralisation; lithification; fossilization
to feign ignorance; to pretend one doesn't know
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to wring the neck; to strangle
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
destructive power; destructive energy; destructive force
five times (as much); quintuple; fivefold
pinch; crisis; tough spot; clothespin
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
shyness; bashfulness; shame
play; recreation; play (theatre); performance; staging; praying
nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
fabrication; forgery; falsehood; hoax
eccentric young person (esp. girl)
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
ill will; malice; evil intent
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
scrubbing hard; scrubbing clean
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise