to feel sick; to be nauseated
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
hateful; detestable; loathsome
completely; thoroughly; horribly; without exception; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part
to talk (a person) down; to confute
young and cheeky; brash; sassy
to torment; to torture; to harass
student accommodation; student dormitory
how others look at you; what others think about you
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
lukewarm; tepid; disagreeably warm (e.g. bath)
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
particular; special; (not) particularly; (not) especially
distant look; faraway look
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea
to weigh on one's mind; to be worried about (something)
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
sudden turn; sudden change; (suddenly occurring) accident; emergency
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
abusive language; violent language; wild words
being startled; getting a shock
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
squeezing something tightly; sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed; criticizing someone severely; sound made by someone being criticized; hug
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
splendid; nice; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); well enough; OK
being good at cooking; good cook
forcing; compulsion; coercion; pushing (to do)
to go out for tea (or coffee, etc.)
coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK
manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something
to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way; to press and cut
how long; how far; how much