windless; calm; quiet (state of affairs); peaceful; stable
consensus; collective will; collective opinion
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
temporary; provisional; interim; special; extraordinary; extra
diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted
to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell; to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
per-capita division; division according to the number of people
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
calm; composed; cool; quiet
to laugh (something) off; to dismiss with a laugh; to pooh-pooh
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
restraint; restriction; fetters; binding; confinement with rope
interference; meddling; butting in
exclusion; removal; rejection; elimination; abatement; lifting (sanctions, etc.)
to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
(not) so much; (not) that much
proof; evidence; certificate; license; to testify (usu. Christian religious context); enlightenment
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
these guys; these fellows
in its entirety; whole; wholly
noisy; loud; boisterous; turbulent; unsettled; restless
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
reduction (in size); shrinking; minimization; trivializing (an issue); making light of; playing down
extinction; annihilation; destruction
to behave; to conduct oneself; to entertain; to treat someone (to a drink); to make tea for someone (tea ceremony)
what would (you) do?; what to do about it
scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops
to be reduced to ashes; to be cremated