basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
to lose heart; to lose motivation
to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be sprained; to be snapped; to be broken
encouragement (as an abstract concept); stimulation
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
to relate to; to have one's feelings understood
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to quit; to resign; to decline; to turn down
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
opening; gap; dried and opened fish
to mix with; to be mixed; to be mingled
break in time; interruption; pause
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
abrasion; scrape; graze; paratripsis
latest; most recent; nearest (in time)
to step on; to trample down; to tread on
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.); image (on a screen); picture; surface of a painting (picture, drawing, etc.)
whirling; revolving; coiling around; winding around; working tirelessly; working hard
to suffer an embarrassing defeat
serious; not joking; straight
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks
young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl; small; cute; (arch.) prostitute
cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive action; dealing with decisively; cutting the (Gordian) knot
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
to throw (liquid) at; to dash; to inundate (with questions); to heap (praise); to hurl (abuse)
to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other
the same rank; the same digit
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; ejaculation