precarious situation; precarious state
to feign innocence; to feign ignorance; to wipe one's mouth
to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted
noisy; loud; boisterous; turbulent; unsettled; restless
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
minimum; minuscule; local minimum
timewise; temporal; chronal
to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted
taking a long time; slowness; sluggishness; lack of firmness; looseness; slovenliness
exactly; just; precisely; punctually; exactly on time
armband; arm band; brassard
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion
to escape; to make one's getaway; to manage to get away
reason; logic; method; system; order
within expectations; as expected; within the scope of hypothesis or assumption
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to
conversation (just) between you and me; confidential talk
stringlike; thready; linear; filamentous; filiform
lately; recently; nowadays
to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle
jinx; omen (can be a good omen)
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
day by day; by the day; (arch.) daily; (arch.) every day
anger; offence; offense; rage; taking offense; taking offence
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to