to forget one's troubles by doing something enjoyable
practice game; practice match; scrimmage; workout
imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion
incommunicative; taciturn
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
to be in full bloom; to blossom in full glory; to be in fullness of bloom
to grieve over; to mourn; to lament
bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
returning no more (usu. of a person who has died); dying
to mourn for; to grieve for; to condole with (the bereaved family, etc.); to hold a memorial service for; to hold a funeral service for
sleeping pill; sleep medication
withdrawal; revocation; repeal; demolition; removal
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
superior; excellent; fine
article; thing; object; property; real estate
holder (of a record, title, permit, etc.)
to remain married for life
speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought
to achieve; to win; to gain; to attain
out of the question; outrageous; impossible; irrelevant; not pertinent
the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small
statue; picture; picture revealing character
on the occasion of; at the time of
foolish thought; (one's own) thought; (one's own) idea
direct line; direct communication; connecting directly; through service; nonstop service
medal of honour; medal of merit
copying; duplication; reproduction; copy
gusher; spout; outpouring; effusion; torrent
meritorious deed; services
to give one's everything; to make one's best effort; to be enthused; to put your back into it
to use a stopgap measure to cope with an emergency
casualties; the killed and wounded
to arrive home; to return
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
compensation; reparations; indemnity; damages