to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent
to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment
novel; original; striking; strange; eccentric; fantastic
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
to take advantage of one's carelessness; to perform a surprise attack
important point; emphasis; iteration mark; colon (punctuation)
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
way of speaking; intimation
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
candied apple; toffee apple
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
generation; the world; the age
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; known as; so to speak
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
turns and twists; ups and downs; meandering; complications; vicissitudes
discarding; firing (an employee)
human rights; civil liberties
guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
to subsist; to keep on living
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
to try all possible means
last night; yesterday evening
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite