hollow; mid-air; air; sky
to insert; to put between; to tuck (into)
need for caution; need for care; requiring special attention
to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts
to hide; to conceal oneself
low-altitude flying; having consistently poor results (grades, sales, etc.); barely scraping by; being on the verge of failing
stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it; that sort of (thing mentioned immediately prior)
straight face; composed expression; nonchalant look
to boast; to brag; to feign ignorance; to pretend not to know; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity; environs; surrounding area; district
cushion; cushion (to soften the blow); mitigation
to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
heart; guts; nerve; heart (of something); central part
to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely
near oneself; close to one; familiar
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to; all of a sudden
sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible
to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel
to erase; to rub out; to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.); to switch off; to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.); to put out; to remove (a smell, pain, etc.)
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
to coo at; to behave like a spoiled child; to snort; to sniff
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
to blaze; to burn brightly
to get rid of; to erase; to dispel; to eradicate; to wipe away
to burn to a crisp; to scorch
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
gazing steadily at; observing (a person) closely; maintain a watch over
to fly about; to jump about; to bustle about
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
consumption; expenditure; spending
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind