languorous; weary; listless; somber; sombre; gloomy
way of reciting; way of telling a story
pitch; tone; time; tempo; mood; tendency
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
limited; limiting; restrictive
antiquity; the previous era
to eat up and spoil (e.g. crops); to eat away; to eat a bit of everything; to encroach upon; to take over
eating; bite (in fishing)
viewing as a problem; problematizing
to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about
to use and then throw away
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
dignity; eminent; high ranking; high-order (digit, bit, etc.)
full operation (e.g. factory, machine, reactor); full strength; full speed
to intensify; to be excited; to fly into a rage; to dash against; to encourage
elopement; running away with a lover
complete stranger; total stranger
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
slightly; a little; barely; narrowly; only; just
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
to miss a chance to ask; to miss an opportunity to ask; to forget to ask
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)
to irritate one; to get on one's nerves
smooth (of a surface); glassy; smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); continuously differentiable
(something) one does not really mean; insincere
to swing one's arms greatly while walking; to act freely; to be brazen
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)