to gain knowledge; to be illuminated; enlightening; informative; illuminating
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
looking away; looking aside
state of the war; war situation
to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings
to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ...; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
to be of use as a reference; to be helpful
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal
it hasn't been long since
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
to turn one's head; to look over one's shoulder; to turn around; to think back (on); to reminisce; to look back (on)
other party; other side; ahead; in front; destination
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of
stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
review (of learned material); revision
to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
change of heart; change of mind; change in mental state
one end; an end; part; fragment
to turn over a new leaf; to mend one's ways; to reform
though one didn't intend (expect) to
to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple
private; foot soldier; infantryman; underling; low level worker; minor player
to end one's life; to end one's days; to die
pothunting; bounty hunting; pothunter; bounty hunter
vent; bent; "finger bending" guitar technique
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
to acquire a position; to hold an appointment
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)