study; learning; tutorial
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
speech; expression; wording; language
The Merchant of Venice (play by William Shakespeare)
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
relative evaluation; comparative assessment
extensive knowledge; erudition
active; dynamic; behavioural
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
usurer; usury; loansharking
property; fortune; assets
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
elopement; running away with a lover
wealthy person; millionaire
disguising oneself as a man; dressing as a man (for a woman); male clothing
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
to be quick-witted; to be resourceful
(stare or glare with) scornful eyes; reproachful eyes; disgusted eyes
slip of the tongue; misstatement; verbal slip-up
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say
follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot
model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
to take a breath; to take a short rest
to become inverted; to become reversed
censure; denunciation; (verbal) attack; blaming
recess; break time; break between classes; free period; recess time; recreation hour
near oneself; close to one; familiar
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC
transformation; variation; metamorphosis; modification; deformation; variety
metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new