every evening; night after night
ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy
to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you
diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; narrow (e.g. thinking); small
to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
low grade; inferiority; coarseness; vulgarity
(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually
to go mad; to go crazy; to go insane
near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
soft sound; dampening (of sound)
laminating; lamination layer
number of characters; number of letters; word count
pathological; morbid; unhealthy; diseased; unwholesome; abnormal
toxicity; virulence; toxic; virulent; poisonous
rather; sooner; preferably
to knock together; to strike against each other; to arrange (e.g. a meeting); to discuss (in advance)
release (e.g. information); disclosure (legal); show; indication; display
leaving something where it is; abandoning something
snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball); snapshot (esp. of people); snap fastener; press stud
wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!
great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago
sad; wretched; deplorable
careful selection; careful screening; hand-picking
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant); Kritik der reinen Vernunft
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
explosive increase; rising dramatically; shooting up
preface; foreword; preamble
trivial; not amounting to much
preface; foreword; introduction