painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
luckily; blessedly; fortunately
coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
behavior; behaviour; manner; attitude; bearing
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
strangeness; abnormality; disorder
tummy; tumtum; bang-bang; pop-pop; without reservation; unreservedly
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding
to run around; to bustle about
outbreak of an illness; onset of an illness; appearance of symptoms
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
capacity; volume; capacitance
elder sister; effeminate man
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to invade; to raid; to infringe; to encroach; to harm; to afflict
if anything; conversely; putting it the other way around; coming at it from the opposite angle
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
to take over; to capture; to seize; to hijack (vehicle, account, etc.)
you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only
lidded plastic container; Tupperware
as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
to cut up; to cut and discard; to eliminate systematically (in fault-finding); to isolate
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
to go out and away; to leave
average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to
deleterious substance; toxic substance
race; tribe; species; genus; stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred
to put to bed; to lay down lengthwise; to put a thing on its side; to set something aside unused; to let lie idle; to ferment
solution; solution strategy
cannot help (feeling); cannot hold back (tears, laughter, etc.)