to manipulate (someone); to make (someone) dance to one's tune; to lead astray; to make (someone) dance; to let dance
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
match; game; bout; contest
counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation; reverse operation
to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
welcome rain; beneficial rain; blessed rain; rain that comes after a drought
wedge; chock; linchpin; tie; bond
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
to spend time (on doing something)
proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
incomparable; cannot compare (with); beyond comparison; in another league
present continuous tense; present progressive form
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
craving; longing; thirsting
to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in
everything; anything; nothing
not having enough workers; being understaffed; being undermanned; having nothing one can do about something; having no options
to be manageable; to be able to handle
to pick out item(s) from a group to keep
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
to see without obstruction; to see through; to forecast; to predict; to anticipate
to tan (i.e. suntan); to burn
to be reduced to ashes; to be cremated
hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam
televising; broadcasting; airing
to walk away; to walk off
to become independent; to leave one's hands; to leave one's possession
to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst
being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reputation; renown; impression (that something gives off); respectability