incident; affair; happening; event
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
powerful; strong; forceful; reassuring; encouraging
people; men and women; each person; everybody
nailing on; nailing down; being stationary; being rooted to the spot; (price) pegging
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
to gather; to collect; to assemble
careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
young girl; lass; adolescent female
to shrink back; to wince; to flinch; to recoil
though; notwithstanding; although
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
sour look; surly face; pout
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
(mumbling) incomprehensibly; while mumbling; mutteringly; murmuringly
to become pale; to turn pale
to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after
control; management (e.g. of a business)
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
confusion; dismay; consternation; panic
facial expression; countenance; look; appearance; expression (vocal, etc.)
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
assertion; declaration; affirmation
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
to not understand; to not (quite) know; to be unsure; to be unable to tell
absence; disregard; indifference
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape)
heir; inheritor; successor
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate