to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for
messy; untidy; disorderly; higgledy-piggledy
gust (of wind); blast; influence; impact; instigation; agitation
live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger
to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with
same; similar; (just) like; equal
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)
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)
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) somebody down (esp. with sexual connotations)
opportunity; chance; time; occasion
part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged
granted that; even if; even though
big man; large man; tall man; giant
to grab at; to grasp at; to clutch at
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
multistoried; multilayered
older brother; elder brother
coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
pretending not to know; feigning ignorance
lately; recently; nowadays
to swing downward; to bring down (one's sword, fist, etc.)
high; noble; refined; advanced
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other
ingenious; skillful; clever; deft
simmer; bubble out; flow out
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to trample down; to devastate
chaos; turmoil; pandemonium; havoc