guess; speculation; supposition
flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick
wholehearted; earnest; determined; intent; single-minded; straightforward
complete stranger; total stranger
reality; actuality; hard fact
in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; immediately; instantly; right away
blood (in one's face, cheeks, etc.); colour; color; hot-bloodedness; hotheadedness; impulsive temperament
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible
settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
wordly things; common customs; the world; the (common) people; secularity
to insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
to crack; to develop a crack
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
courage; bravery; valour; valor; nerve; boldness
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
quarrel; argument; row; (verbal) dispute
to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid
silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling
to constrict one's chest; to wring one's heart; to wrench one's heart
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
pressure; oppression; suppression
reverie; meditation; anxiety; thought; pensiveness
left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one
saying; maxim; aphorism; proverb
to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)
to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
close to the wall; alongside the wall
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
vexing; irritating; impatient
plainly; clearly; vividly
to wake (someone) up (by calling for them); to awaken; to call (to mind); to bring back (memories); to evoke
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about
if you think about it; come to think of it
to have a rumor circulating
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along