to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
permission; allowance; acceptance; tolerance; pardon
your home; your residence; you (referring to one's equal; epistolary style)
spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham
volume (sound level); volume; bulk; volume (book); volume (storage area); potentiometer
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
possible; conceivable; likely; probable
to complain; to lodge a complaint
unexpectedly; surprisingly
to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess
knowing only too well; being fully aware of
to raise one's voice; to shout
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled
with a start; in surprise; suddenly (realize, remember, etc.); all of a sudden; puffing (air); with a puff
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
filling a vacancy; supplementation; substitute; deputy; alternate
compatibility; coexistence; standing together; balancing (e.g. work and family)
reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)
selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases
reserved; introverted; reticent; shy; withdrawn
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum
doll; puppet; marionette; puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man
the more one looks (at it) the more ...
technical; technological; practical
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond
to emphasize; to attach importance to
nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck
symptoms; condition (of a patient)
sting (of a bee, etc.); stinger; needle covered with poison
sign (of things to come); good omen; good sign
start; beginning; starting (e.g. a race); departing; starting point
eye measurement; measure with eye
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide