to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of
consideration; concern; attention; thoughtfulness; making arrangements; care
to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent
useless; vain; aimless; idle
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
return of something; repayment
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case
one class; one set; a pair; a suite; a series
remains; dregs; vestiges; remnant; residue
perception; sensing; noticing
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
conviction; belief; confidence
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
unexpected; contrary to expectations; by chance; casual
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly
to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
condescending attitude; arrogant attitude; looking down on
challenging; defiant; provocative; aggressive
affinity; compatibility; chemistry (between people)
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
mobile telephone; cellular telephone
machinery; gadgetry; equipment
to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything
unknown; unidentified; unspecified
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict
extremely gruesome; lurid; violent; bloody; fierce