virtue; charm; merit; good point
to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)
ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; ball hit through net (in tennis)
exaggerated; bombastic; highly colored; highly coloured
itching-to-grab gesture (made with one's hands)
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
collecting mania; mania for collecting; collectionism
sad; wretched; deplorable
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
test of patience; battle of wills; endurance contest
mother's body (esp. when pregnant or after giving birth); parent body; parent organization; base
bad influence; negative influence
falling together; mutual destruction; joint bankruptcy
greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable
goodbye; so long; saying goodbye to (e.g. life as a bachelor); putting an end to; farewell (performance, party, etc.); final
worry; fear; anxiety; concern
just before one's eyes; in one's presence; personally
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
splish-splash; with a splash
to be choppy (of waves); to be rough; to wave (e.g. in the wind); to beat fast (of a heart); to be in turmoil; to be in discord
bad mannered; naughty; misbehaving
agglutination; adhesion; deadlock; stalemate; standstill
gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else
to be closed; to be blocked; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)
cane; walking stick; staff; wand
attempt; trial; experiment; endeavour (endeavor); effort; venture
negative emotions; negative feelings
suspicious behavior; acting suspiciously
to unseat someone (in an election); to defeat a sitting member
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive
to smoke (something); to fumigate; to oxidize; to oxidise
solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); solution (to a given problem); answer; explanation; interpretation
fight; battle; combat; struggle (for rights, higher wages, etc.); strife; (labor) dispute
in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on