inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive
difficult to ...; hard to ...
constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
dangerous; in danger; facing imminent danger; precarious (situation); perilous (state, balance, etc.); in doubt
distance; interval; gap; difference; estrangement
sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
with an interesting history (story); with a shady history; with circumstances that are difficult to explain
near; close; beside; third person
had better ...; had better not ...
innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-
comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger (on two-way radio)
to be a matter of life or death
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
alteration; falsification; faking
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
permission; allowance; acceptance; tolerance; pardon
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
unpleasant; awkward; embarrassing; uneasy
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
to calculate; to compute; to deduce; to infer; to conclude
trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence
surely; certainly; without doubt
round; tranquil; contentedly at ease
identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
reservation; putting on hold; deferment
scale; scope; plan; structure
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
that's a different matter; that's a different story
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
depending on the situation; should time and circumstances permit
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
extermination; annihilation