amiability; friendliness; fondness (of someone); affection; compliments; civilities
to use completely; to use up; to exhaust; to exhaust someone's civility; to give up (on someone)
now that it's come to this; since it's come to this
to set off an explosive; to start a fire under someone; to motivate someone with rough words
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action
to taste; to try (food or drink)
to treat shabbily; to be careless about; to handle roughly; to waste; to use wastefully; to spend recklessly
acutely (feel); keenly; severely; tightly; hard
woven mat (of sedge, hay, etc.)
slowly; unhurriedly; without haste; leisurely; at one's leisure
extra-large portion; extra-sized serving
briskly with small steps; trotting
suddenly; unexpectedly; by chance; accidentally; lightly; nimbly
a little; a bit; slightly
person who is ...; thing that is ...
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
judgement; judgment; refereeing; umpiring; judgement (of God); referee
eating quickly; speed-eating
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
rising (smoke, clouds, etc.); rolling up; billowing up
victory; triumph; win; conquest; success
to put (into); to put away (in); to include (in an anthology, catalogue, etc.); to contain; to achieve (results, success, etc.); to obtain; to pay (fees, taxes, etc.)
not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover
white heat; incandescence; (emitting) white light; becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax
match; game; bout; contest
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data)
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
to inquire (about); to enquire; to ask; to interrogate; to question intensely; to grill (someone about something)
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to be popular (esp. with the opposite sex); to be well liked; to be pampered (spoiled, doted upon, etc.); to be welcomed
very much; very many; more and more
the opposite sex; isomerism
indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable
to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch