hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about
bog; marsh; swamp; quandary; dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself; imbroglio
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
very much; intensely; overwhelmingly; excessively; irresistibly; without any obvious reason
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
shadow or cloud (e.g. on someone's happiness); shade; gloom
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
nostril; nostrils; naris; nares
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
to wear; to be dressed in; to be adorned in; to clad oneself with
pure; innocent; naive; unspoilt; pure-hearted; ingenuous
to be fascinated (by); to be captivated by; to be enchanted by; to gaze admiringly at; to watch in fascination
out of character; unlike one
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
to shed tears; to (begin to) cry
to be touching; to be moving
to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
temperature; body temperature (human, animal)
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
function; facility; faculty; feature
temporary; ad hoc; makeshift; stopgap
to inform; to notify; to know; to reign
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
to jaunt around; to play around; to visit one place after another without effect
fit; spasm; attack; seizure
mouth-to-mouth feeding; beak-to-beak feeding; mouth-to-mouth (resuscitation); conveying by word of mouth; oral tradition
assumption; supposition; hypothesis
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress