adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable
very rare; very unlikely (to happen); scarcely; seldom; improbable; almost never (occurring)
lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life
eggs; egg; (hen's) egg; a ... in the making; future (lawyer, doctor, etc.); beginning
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
day and night; around the clock
custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; normally
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
time; season; period; phase; stage
to be imminent; to be impending; to be pressing; to be urgent
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
to fall completely silent; to become still as death
to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)
to be born; to come into the world
both; both sides; both parties
symptoms; condition (of a patient)
method of treatment; cure; remedy
queer fellow; odd fellow; eccentric person; crank; oddball; freak
eccentric; crank; weirdo; oddball
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
to follow (a road, path, etc.); to trace; to follow (a clue, scent, tracks, plot, etc.); to trace (a route, history, family tree, etc.); to head towards (of a situation); to go in the direction of
touch; contact; contact (with people); dealings; tangency
success; achievement; succeeding (in life); (worldly) success; prosperity
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
unfortunately; regrettably
taken by mouth; passed into the body via the mouth; oral
intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); reception and protection
art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice
to invite in; to show someone in
to rescue (someone); to save; to help (out of a difficulty); to save (spiritually); to redeem (from sin); to deliver (from suffering, distress, etc.)
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
edge (of a knife or sword); blade; prong (of an electrical plug)
threat; bird-scaring device (scarecrow, gun, etc.)
God's will; heaven's decree; mandate of Heaven; one's life; one's lifespan