to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
affection; love; fondness; tenderness
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
ancestor; forefather; foremother
descendant; posterity; offspring
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate
malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality
external pressure; outside pressure; foreign pressure
to spur (on); to expedite; to encourage
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed
letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.
performing solo; having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled)
leading part; leading actor; leading actress
mischief; prank; pastime; hobby; playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with
to change (with the passage of time); to fade; to wane; to decline
to give and take; to make mutual concessions; to compromise
each (person); everyone; individual; respective
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
qualitative difference; disparity; gap
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
to be awash with; to teem with; to be full of
to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter
life story; personal narrative; story of one's life
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
to have the memory of having done something oneself
decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay
lazy; idle; indolent; slothful
rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power
deviation; departure; omission
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
pointing out; identification
advantages and disadvantages; interests (of parties)