change (personnel); transfer; reshuffle
duty station; place of business; work location
rather; sooner; preferably
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but
close; intimate; on good terms
it is I who should say so
somehow; for some reason or other
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
to be surprising; to be shocking; to be jaw-dropping
may I come in?; please forgive me; I'm sorry
polite; respectful; reverent
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
centre of attention; center of attention
cannot help (feeling); cannot hold back (tears, laughter, etc.)
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft); with a thrust; with a stab; sullenly; sulkily; glumly
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
being startled; getting a shock
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to drag; to pull
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
order; reservation; order; sequence; order (of magnitude); architectural order
for some (unspecified) reason
scattering (in all directions)
whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; jab
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
to assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate
supplementary explanation
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
checking answers (e.g. to homework problems); verifying one's answers