pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead
to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)
to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)
to lick all over; to run one's tongue over
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
to twine around; to twist around; to coil around; to pester; to hassle
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
very loose; slowly; leisurely
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious; (lit.) of an unknown nature
from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
to wither; to wilt; to droop; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to be depressed
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (letters)
to become dim; to become blurred
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter
tone (of voice); manner of talking
wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising
to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)