yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
to take someone's life; to kill someone
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
this is why; this means; it is the case that
urgent report; urgent message
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
occupation (e.g. of territory); exclusive possession
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
details; particulars; detailed; specific; close-up view (of a digitally displayed map); zoomed-in view
to be needed; to be wanted
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
right arm; right-hand man; right hand; right-handed pitcher
line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
to apologize; to apologise
ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship; boatman
to dress up as; to disguise oneself as; to play the role of
agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)
provisional; temporary; tentative
rule; reign; government; governing
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of