event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to spend time (on doing something)
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
woman who missed the chance of getting married (because she is too old)
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
to look down on; to make light of
easy; easygoing; carefree; happy-go-lucky; optimistic; leisurely
grumbling; muttering; nonsense
to knock (someone) down; to floor; to beat up; to deal a devastating blow (from which one cannot recover); to devastate (emotionally); to crush
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession
denial; negation; negation; NOT operation
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
suggestion; hint; implication
whispering into a person's ear
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
impact; shock; impulse; (psychological) shock
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
getting back together; being reconciled; returning to normal
irregular; atypical; anomalous; anomalistic; abnormal
to form; to make; to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to accomplish; to achieve; to change (into)
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
civil war; insurrection; rebellion; domestic conflict
to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict
choice; selection; option
to take advantage of; to impose on; to exploit; to enter (an item in a ledger); to make an entry (in an account book)
plan; scheme; stratagem; plot; trick
censure; criticism; blame; disparagement; vilification
woven mat (esp. one made of straw); seat
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
mental image; mental picture; image
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
disgust; hate; repugnance; loathing
sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
to make (someone) understand (a fault, mistake, etc.); to reason with; to advise; to try to persuade; to exhort; to admonish
such a thing; something like that
such; this sort of; like this