existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no
involving only the parties concerned; tete-a-tete
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever
self-esteem; self-respect; self-importance; conceit; pride
to reach; to get to; to arrive at
pride; boast; credit (to)
I don't know about ... but; it may be possible for ... but
to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
selfish; egoist; (arch.) self-indulgent; (arch.) wilful; (arch.) willful
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
one end; an end; part; fragment
to win through (e.g. to finals); to advance
to smoke (e.g. pipe); to puff (cigarette)
to conform to; to be in accordance with; to follow (rule, tradition, example, etc.)
contradiction; inconsistency
adjustment; coordination; regulation
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity
widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally
struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)
analogy; analogical reasoning; analogical inference; analogy
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to pour (into); to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to shed (tears); to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to flow into (e.g. of a river)
to wash away; to rinse off
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
carefully; thoroughly; fully; deliberately
town; city; municipal; urban
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many