pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked
taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...
aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support
killing a would-be avenger; having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
imperial lands; lands blessed by the emperor's reign
dignity; quality; grace; panache; level
to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave
looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance
assertiveness; positiveness; initiative; spirit of enterprise
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
unable to leave the work at hand; right in the middle of something; tied up; busy
hard fight; difficult struggle
to stand on a podium; to teach; to be a teacher
what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...; none other than ...
(teacher's) platform; podium; dais
to slip down; to slide down; to glide down
front; frontage; facade; main
to slide down (snow, etc.)
to mistake (A for B); to misread
pulpy; soppy; sloppy; untidy; in a disarray
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
DUMBO, acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
from here; from this place
reading comprehension; ability to read and understand
chaos; confusion; disorder; chaotic; confused; uncertain
to divide in two; to divide in half; to apportion; to divide among; to portion out
comparatively; quite; rather; rate; ratio; percentage
emphatic sentence-ending particle