neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity; environs; surrounding area; district
dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now
(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess
return to work; going back to work
threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair); to thin (hair); to reduce in volume
to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter
to deal a blow in return; to hit back; to punch back; to reject; to send back
back (side); reverse; B side (of a record); secret levels; hidden levels
(sense of) sight; eyesight; vision
foolish; imbecile; feebleminded
chairperson (of a committee); chair; chairman; chairwoman; president
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed
to participate in (as a member); to get involved in
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
with a tap; with a knock; smoothly (proceed); without a hitch; even; equal
narrow eyes; half-open eyes; fine mesh; fine texture; tight weave
to connect; to correlate; to associate; to relate; to link
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
output (electrical, signal, etc.)
to glare; to dazzle; to glitter
rugged; scraggy; angular; gnarled
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk (drive)
the deceased; deaths; persons killed
manufacture and sales; vertical integration
self-mutilation; self-injury
to forget to write; to leave out (by mistake); to omit
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
drifting; drift; being adrift
to pass from one's lips; to escape one's lips
to ward off; to brush away; to fling off; to drive away
to turn pale; to lose color; to lose colour
shudder; shiver; trembling with fear
proof; evidence; sign; witnessing; testifying; testimony