stand-offish; distant; not frank; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)
peers; friends; fellow workers; comrades
to help each other; to cooperate
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
to glitter; to sparkle; to twinkle; to glisten; to gleam; to glint
program (of events, music, etc.); programme; program (booklet); brochure; (computer) program; programming
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
ghost; ghosting (television); ghosting; ghost flare; ghost image; ghosting
hacking; hacking (basketball, rugby, etc.); fouling
decrease; reduction; decline
(wheeled) vehicle; car; (railroad) car; (railway) carriage; rolling stock
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk (drive)
ability; performance; efficiency
worm; worm; worm (lure); soft plastic lure
spreading; disseminating; scattering; diffusion (of light, gas)
amount of information; information content (information theory); Shannon information; surprisal
processing speed; handling speed
to fly about; to jump about; to bustle about
protective wall; defensive wall; barrier; bulwark
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference
same time; simultaneous; concurrent; synchronous
before; previously; ahead; pardon me for leaving (before you)
surreptitious glance; looking furtively
staying up late; sitting up late at night; keeping late hours
pan; frying pan; panning (a camera)
electrically powered; electric
strength in one's arms; physical strength; muscular strength; force; violence
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
lightly and smoothly (of movements); swiftly; glidingly; (progressing) smoothly; (solving) easily
dilatorily; sluggishly; to take a lot of time; to become late; to take it easy
to set (sun); to become dark
with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft); with a thrust; with a stab; sullenly; sulkily; glumly
fault; trouble; damage (to a part of the body); injury; problem; hitch
swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply
(death from) starvation; starving to death