kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
one's lack of learning or ability; shallow learning and limited ability
to ask (humbly); to request (humbly)
tensely; tightly; erectly; intuitively; instinctively; with a burst
secondary residence; vacation home; villa
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
excess personnel; redundant staff
unsophisticated; ruggedly honest; artless; unaffected; simple; naive
elder brother; one's senior; dashing young man; gallant young lad
maintenance; conservatism; conservativeness; conservation
former (incumbent); predecessor
to sigh; to breathe a sigh
shooting; firing; emitting; ejection; projection; injection
baking soda; sodium bicarbonate
brand (burnt-in mark of identification); branding iron
information transfer; information transmission
moving (dwelling, office, etc.); changing residence
chasing after women; womanizing
stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness; cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible; creaking of a door or oar
bumping of heads; running into; coming across; encountering
to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up
new functionality; new feature
keyword; key word; clue word; keyword; search term; indexing term
stringlike; thready; linear; filamentous; filiform
imp; elf; pixie; goblin; devilkin