emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point
to miss (a train, bus, etc.); to fail to keep up with (e.g. the times); to be left behind by
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
person who gets easily elated (when praised, etc.); person who readily chimes in with others; person who gets carried away easily
speech; expression; wording; language
to project; to reflect; to cast (shadow)
upward tendency; rising trend
difference; discrepancy; variation
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
trouble; troubles; worry; distress; sorrows; anguish
hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner
to turn over a new leaf; to mend one's ways; to reform
how; in what way; in what manner
self-abasement; humility; self-depreciation
very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
playful; mischievous; joker; prankster; scamp
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of
stool (stood on to reach high objects); small stepladder; (fig.) stepping stone
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
unspecified large number (of people)
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
leading part; leading actor; leading actress
skilled person; capable person; doer; performer; giver; bestower
treating someone like a child
older brother; elder brother
third year of high school; third-year high-school student
as a child; when one was a child
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
appearance (in the eyes of society); decency
brother complex; excessive attachment to one's brother; black contemporary (music)