breakdown; failure; damage; hurt; objection; protest
bumping of heads; running into; coming across; encountering
to add (to what was said before); to say in addition
being very busy; busyness
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)
to be ill; to suffer from; to worry about; to be concerned about; to have trouble doing ...; to be unable to ...
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
prohibition; inhibition; ban
deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out
for a certain reason; owing to unavoidable circumstances
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
capacity; volume; capacitance
to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine
erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion
unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash
the absolute basics (esp. in educational contexts); most basic of basics; most fundamental thing
starting point; point of departure
(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess
rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded
main question; real issue at hand
to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle
cannot help (feeling); cannot hold back (tears, laughter, etc.)
such; this sort of; like this
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
no!; no no!; no, not at all
to put clothes on (someone); to dress; to cover; to coat; to pin (e.g. a crime on someone); to lay (blame)
plain; unaffected; natural; unpretentious; frank; candid
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
flamboyant; extravagant; showy; attention-seeking
looks; personal appearance; features
standoffishly; primly; pungently (of a smell); acridly; long and pointed (e.g. of a nose); popping (of ears)
to turn away; to face away; to ignore; to be uncooperative; to be unconciliatory
coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins
division; section; demarcation; partition; segmentation; subdivision