lack of self-reliance; depending on others
suddenly; at once; considerably; very much; firmly; with an effort
in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh
to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight; to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
side table; bedside table
private property; personal belongings; personal effects
smallish; on the small side
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
cookie; biscuit; cookie (browser-related file sent from a WWW server)
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
maintenance; preservation; improvement
to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome
worship; adoration; admiration; cult
enshrinement; installation (of an image)
to look away; to avert one's eyes
to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on
bored; having nothing to do; idle
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
to be a live-in employee; to live in; to live with
tall story; tall tale; cock-and-bull story
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
mix; mixed-race person; multiracial person
My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
to get lost; to become lost; to go astray
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
to change; to exchange; to convert; to renew; to throw a switch; to replace
uncertain; vague; ambiguous