business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
to put on airs; to assume importance
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
pawn (chess piece); boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); flipping through the air; tossing
bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm)
to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)
restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
danger; peril; hazard; risk
seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
piece; fragment; one (object)
journal; magazine; periodical
to be suspicious of; to be doubtful of; to be dubious of
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to break through; to penetrate; to pierce
to pitch forward; to fall forward
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
to apologize; to apologise
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
to put on airs; to act big; to throw one's weight about; to be overbearing; to be domineering; to be bossy
flinchingly; falteringly; being overwhelmed; staggeringly; totteringly; unsteadily
to loaf (particularly on the job); to idle one's time away; to dawdle
to snatch from; to steal from
really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit
in a positive sense of the word; in the best sense of the word; in a good way
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
same; similar; (just) like; equal
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
curved; forming the shape of an arch
split; division; break up
contrary to expectations; or so we thought, but ...