discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression
knowing; being aware (of); (an) acquaintance
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
outside the country; abroad
to quiet (a child, crowd, etc.); to quieten; to calm (one's nerves, excitement, etc.); to compose (oneself); to suppress (a rebellion, riot, fire, etc.); to quell
the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down
hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff
to show signs; to have symptoms; to give indications (of); to bud; to germinate; to sprout
western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
in a train (car, bus, etc.); on a train
circumstances; sequence of events; how things got this way; details; particulars
aspiration; ambition; plan; hopes; wishes
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)
first meeting; first interview with
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
to live; to reside; to inhabit
guess; speculation; supposition
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
sudden; abrupt; improvised; hasty; impromptu skit; bandwagon fan
to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy; (tactical) advance or retreat of troops
sluggishly; slowly; ploddingly; stolidly (standing); impassively
to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
to well (up); to gush out (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to sweat; to feel emotions (e.g. joy, bravery, etc.); to spring up (e.g. an idea, emotions, clouds)
just past noon; afternoon
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
eager; earnest; ardent; OFF (on switch)
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
home; household; family; hearth
remedy for a cold; cold medicine
in the meantime; meanwhile
to be reluctant (to do); to be unwilling (to do); to falter; to slacken; to have a frequent urge to defecate but difficulty passing stool; to suffer from tenesmus
to confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on
farmer; farming family; farmhouse; School of Agrarianism (China); School of Agronomists
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation