refusal; rejection; denial; veto
to be subject to punishment; to be punished
to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain
difficult to ...; hard to ...
object of romantic interest
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
to grow senile; to be childish with age; to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
attendance (at school); going to school
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
blunder; bungle; clumsiness
to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag); to wedge into a space; to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit); to pull (a joke)
tangent point; point of contact; contact (electrical, etc.); point of agreement; common ground
total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
small build; small stature; petite; small pattern
child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
second marriage; remarriage
name; given name; first name
consultation on career, university, etc. choices
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
on the sea; on the ocean; offshore
drainage; draining; pumping out (water); displacement
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)