labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
selection; making a choice; sifting; decision to adopt or reject
to forget to write something; to leave something out; to omit something
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
process; course; mechanism
thought; consideration; thinking
steady; sound; solid; reliable; trustworthy
real image; real form; real-life image; true picture
to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out
notebook; copy-book; note; noting down; (musical) note; laptop (computer)
to be noticeable; to notice; to catch one's eye
depository; storage area; storage location; storage site
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
smirkingly; smugly; broadly
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)
chest of drawers; bureau; cabinet; tansu; dresser
drawer; withdrawal (of money from an account); variety of knowledge and experience useful for handling things impromptu
to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out
to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible
hard-to-use space (in an apartment, etc.); dead space (artillery, etc.); (respiratory) dead space
cache; place to hide something
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
very interesting; of great interest
to plunder; to grab; to snatch
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
to be reflected in a mirror
image; figure; figure; form; image
distance; interval; gap; difference; estrangement
index finger; forefinger; second toe
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off