the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity; fraternity; brotherhood
to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to consider; to concern oneself about
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
anyone and everyone; anybody at all
innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-
positive (e.g. thinking); positive (photography); positive (electrical polarity)
negative (e.g. thinking); negative; negative (electrical polarity)
to ask a question; to ask questions
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce
expressive power; inventiveness; creative power
(power of) understanding; comprehensive faculty
to be the ruin of (a person)
to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes); to hook; to catch; to cheat; to evade payment; to drink (alcohol)
to seek knowledge; to ask for instruction
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
to manage something successfully; to be successful
one (of a pair); incomplete; imperfect; few; little; off-centre
on one hand; on the other hand
to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
stupor; stupefaction; trance; (being) dumbfounded
the other day; some time ago; recently
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
wooden figure; wooden doll; puppet; blockhead; good-for-nothing; fool
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
edict; public announcement
to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
right side; right-hand side
third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on