stopper; cork; plug; tap; faucet; stopcock
to fall apart; to collapse; to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out; (arch.) to fall apart (one's body or health)
God's will; Heaven's will
layman; believer; adherent; follower; laity
paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow
finally; after; following; at the end (of)
to cite as an example; to refer to; to quote
intolerable; unbearable; tremendous; out of this world; cannot help (doing); cannot but do
unenlightened; uneducated; ignorant
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
to dash off (a piece of writing); to scribble; to scrawl
swindler; imposter; crook
self-satisfied look; triumphant expression
infant; baby; little child
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
few decades; many decades; several decades
(divine) providence; dispensation
epidemic; plague; pestilence
calamity; disaster; misfortune
foresight; foreknowledge; intimation; premonition; prediction
to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother
to have a smattering knowledge of
paranormality; anomalous phenomenon
to knead well; to polish; to refine
evangelist; evangelistic worker
unexplained; unsolved; unclear
origin; beginning; source; rise
one theory (opinion); another theory (opinion)
deeply religious; devout; godly; faithful
blind (devotion, faith, etc.); reckless
good person; virtuous person
to be different from what was previously said; to be different from what was promised
to grab at; to grasp at; to clutch at
to run down (stairs, etc.)
faith; belief; piety; devotion; godliness
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on