absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
common; commonplace; reckless; pulp paper; granulated sugar; (arch.) coins
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
dripping wet; soaked; drenched
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional
to begin to rain; to begin to snow
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
health; healthy; sound; fit
to put to bed; to lay down lengthwise; to put a thing on its side; to set something aside unused; to let lie idle; to ferment
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone
to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)
concurrence; coincidence; complication (in illness)
dirt; filth; stain; blot; spot
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred