middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
understanding (of people's circumstances and feelings); perceptiveness; sympathy; wisdom
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
here and there; little by little; sporadically; dots; spots
disturbance; perturbation; derangement
bet; wager; stake; gamble
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
embarrassed; feeling ashamed; feeling awkward
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
to tighten; to press hard
lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily
immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
guy; fellow; chap; bastard; asshole; arsehole
in flagrante delicto arrest; arrest of somebody in the act of committing a crime
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
document; official papers
adaptation; accommodation; conformity
rat (esp. laboratory or pet)
to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise
(good) result; outcome; fruits (of one's labors); product; accomplishment
indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)
specimen; sample; object to be examined
applying (e.g. a technology); adoption
observation; survey; watching
just now; a little while back; a short time ago