ease of use; user-friendliness; usability; utility; convenience
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself
being in love with each other
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
please!; I'm asking you; for heaven's sake
whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
being too late; losing one's final chance
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection
Your Majesty; His Majesty; Her Majesty
to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive about; to be fixated on; to obstruct; to hinder
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
back off!; leave me alone!
to be sullen; to be offended; to be huffy; to be stuffy; to be stifling; to be muggy
related to; in relation to; as far as ... is concerned
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
sullenly; taciturnly; morosely; taciturn person; uncommunicative person
to say no more; to sink into silence
staringly; scrutinizing; scrutinising
to become desperate; to give in to despair
established fact; fait accompli
violence; reckless action; (an) outrage
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
just kidding; not!; ersatz; imitation; phony
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
good feeling; feeling good
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
after a long time; for the first time in a while
stairs; stairway; staircase
more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage
to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak
to run up (a hill, stairs etc.); to dash up; to rush up
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny