to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
to tailor; to make (clothing); to train; to bring up; to make it seem like; to pass off
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
dyeing black; dyed black; dark
craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
to warm (e.g. one's hands over a fire); to dry; to toast; to grill; to broil
graceful; ladylike; modest; gentle; polite; quiet
fate; chance; relationship; tie
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
next term; next period; next version; next release
unconsciously; unwittingly; unawares
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
to conceal; to keep secret; to cover up
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
stirring; slight movement
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
artificial feeding; accustoming wild animals to eating food given by humans
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
embarrassed; feeling ashamed; feeling awkward
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
very hungry; starving; ravenous
otherwise; if not; or else
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
to say; to tell; to state; to do