to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
disparity of wealth; wealth inequality; social inequality
to ward off; to brush away; to fling off; to drive away
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)
indulgence (e.g. in alcohol, women, etc.); debauchery; dissipation
one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing
to dye; to colour; to color
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
body odor; body odour; personal odor; personal odour; characteristic (of someone)
child; offspring; issue; sperm; (one's) seed
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
ennui; languishing; feeling of exhaustion; lassitude; lethargy
consecutive; continuous; successive
flame; blaze; fire; attack; aggression
calm; composed; leisurely
to be wrought up; to be on edge; to get irritated; to get excited (about); to be unsettled
calamity; misfortune; disaster
half the body; half length
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
(not so) much; (not) very
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
telling others; revealing to others; letting out a secret
best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent
to throw away as useless; to scrap; to make null and void; to renege; to annul
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding
princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue
actual profit; practical use; benefit
starting point; starting line
to withdraw; to abandon (e.g. a lawsuit)
to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
loss (of weight or volume, e.g. in transit); ullage; outage; decrease (in value); reduction
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
to smile back (at a person); to answer someone's smile
one by one; one at a time; in turn