precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
society; public; community; social studies
defective item; defective product; defective merchandise
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
adopted daughter; foster daughter
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; banal
looking on (somebody) as hostile
to master (e.g. a skill); to become accustomed to (e.g. a lifestyle); to acquire (e.g. a habit); to retain
admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement; self-identification
study; library; den; home office; reading room
self-esteem; self-respect; self-importance; conceit; pride
very; much; greatly; a lot of
self-respect; esteem; self-importance; pride
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
burden; nuisance; bother; hanger-on; dependent; parasite
to be turned inside out; to betray; to double-cross; to break into falsetto; to crack into falsetto
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
need not; (not) have to; need not have; need not exist
(divine) punishment; curse; retribution
external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)
to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any
manner of speaking; verbal argument; objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee); rumor; rumour
don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me
self restraint; moderating one's behaviour; penitence; confinement to one's home; house arrest
to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
marlin; swordfish; spearfish; sailfish