all you have to do is; just; that's all
sweet words; smooth talk; cajolery; flattery; sycophancy
to shut out one's opponents; to stop the other side from scoring
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
scorn; disdain; contempt; slight
safety; welfare; well-being
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
stifled (laughter); simmering
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate
delusion; illusion; infatuation; bewilderment; perplexity
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
disorder; confusion; clutter; mess; muddle; disarray
thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
tail (animal); tail end; tip
to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
at someone's (something's) mercy
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
to tie; to restrain; to confine; to bind; to fasten
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
as if ...; as if to say ...; as though ...
vermiculation; peristalsis; crawling like a worm
rustling of leaves; rustling of grass
sensual; sexy; voluptuous
corolla (of flower); garland; wreath
(earthenware) mortar (for grinding)
grater (esp. the variety used in Japanese cooking to grate foods very finely)
creakily; close (i.e. with no room to spare)
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to gape; to open one's mouth wide
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamour
to hold back (e.g. emotions); to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people); to get the better of; to control; to command