difficult to ...; hard to ...
of course; certainly; naturally
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
progress; advance; improvement; development
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
correction (of fault, defect, flaw, etc.); remedy; rectification; redress; reform
weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market
complete; whole; perfect; safe
that is to say; so that means
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
to increase; to add to; to augment
minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)
axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
to need; to call for; to require
to jump over; to clear; to walk over (someone)
is something that; is that which
to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock
major incident; major happening; big scandal
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
to revel in trouble and discord; to be bent on making trouble; to like starting fights
even; (if) only; just; besides; on top of that
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; deterioration; degeneration; transmutation
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
emergence (of insects); eclosion; growing wings
to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off
to be turned inside out; to betray; to double-cross; to break into falsetto; to crack into falsetto
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
(doing) various things; (doing) this and that; being apt to; being prone to; at any rate; anyhow
impressive; striking; memorable; impactful
violence; assault; rough (e.g. handling); reckless; rape; sexual assault