dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
law; rule; regulation; destiny; fate; karma
wholehearted; earnest; determined; intent; single-minded; straightforward
to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone
violently disagreeing; strongly opposing; setting one's heart against
information; experience; knowledge; observation
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
concession; conciliation; compromise
insight; power of observation
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
naked; nude; unvarnished (e.g. truth); plain (e.g. fact); frank
intensely; severely; strictly; tightly; compactly; closely
fellow traveler; fellow traveller; travelling companion; taking someone along unwillingly (e.g. in death); forcing to take part
running (for election); coming forward as a candidate; going on horseback; going in person; (arch.) letting out a horse; (arch.) taking out a horse
to exchange (messages, thoughts, etc.); to communicate
light; faint; pale; fleeting
to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with
unity; union; solidarity; combination; teaming up
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
deputy head teacher; vice principal
to mark the end; to spell the end
proper; right; reasonable
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
tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
indefinite; hazy; vague; unsettled; undecided
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
to become decrepit; to be in one's dotage; to become dull; to lose one's astuteness; to lose one's touch; to become senile
time to pay the piper; (lit.) time to pay the land tax (in kind)
(connecting) passageway; accessway; walk-through; skyway; sky bridge