I am sorry (to hear, to say, etc.); a pity
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible
vote; ballot; label; ticket; tag
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table
interview (i.e. television, newspaper, etc.)
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
complaint; quibble; niggle; finding fault; false accusation
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance); musicians' box on the left side of the stage; lower seat
how; in what way; circumstances
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
conversely; on the contrary
(please) look; see; (please) try to do
to have a cramp; to be pulled too tight
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
to be worried; to be troubled
but; however; even though; even if
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
presence or absence; whether something is there or not; whether something happens or not
something one finds questionable; something one finds fault with
all you have to do is; just; that's all
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
to discuss; to find fault with; to criticize; to criticise
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
to discuss; to talk about; to argue; to dispute; to take into consideration; to make an issue of
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast