originally; primarily; essentially; intrinsically; proper; rightful
sticky; persistent; insistent; nagging
something like ...; something called ...
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
talk; recital; narration; topic
crying oneself to sleep; giving up in frustration; accepting meekly; being compelled to accept a situation
good person; virtuous person
time; thyme; time out (e.g. in sport)
I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
to drug (someone, food, drink)
dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum
the person in question; the person themselves; said person
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum
to yell out loud; to shout loudly; to cry aloud; to scream loudly
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
pile; heap; counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.); layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat; combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours)
credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest
cause (grounds) for concern (anxiety); reason for uneasiness
in advance; beforehand; previously
beforehand; in advance; previously
it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
deadly serious; deadly earnest
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
to the previous extent; as much as previously; as much as one used to
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
learning; acquisition (of a skill, knowledge, etc.)
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
to distribute; to hand out