slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving
perpetual night; continuing all night
clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit
blunder; (careless) mistake; error
to do (something negative); to make (a blunder); to commit (an error); to eat (up); to drink
what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement
soft; tender; soft (colour, light, etc.); subdued; informal; light
soft skin (esp. of a woman)
great difference; big difference; wide margin
to come untied; to come apart; to be softened; to be relaxed
previous generation (of a family); previous head of the family; predecessor; previous age; previous generation
have a good day; take care; see you
rivalry (between two equally strong sides); struggle for supremacy; competing (with); vying (with); contending (with); being an equal match (for)
now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns
disposition; temperament; temper; nature
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
one-way traffic; one-way (e.g. communication); one-sided
conditional; qualified; with conditions attached
to give up (all thoughts of); to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to make a decision; to decide
to compose; to put together
to dig up; to unearth; to uncover
deviation; inclination; offset; polarization; polarisation
to drive in (a nail, stake, etc.); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into; to shoot into; to input (data)
analysis; analytical study; parsing; parse
pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
wink of sleep; snooze; doze; nap
to put a stop to; to put a hold on; to put the brakes on; to call a halt to; to block; to shelve
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
what kind of thing; anything (else); nothing (but)
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
to erase all trace of something
to shun; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of (esp. one's health)
sleepwalker; somnambulist
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
sticky; thick (e.g. thickly plastered); icky; to stick closely
being together; going together; matching (clothing); going together
stylish; fashionable; dressing (oneself) up; dressing smartly; fashionable dresser; smartly dressed person