pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
oversight; omission; something overlooked; thing left unnoticed
like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
absolute monarch; despot; autocrat; tyrant
to spend (time); to pass; to overdo (esp. alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); to take care of; to support
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
milli-; 10^-3; millimetre; millimeter
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain
bento; Japanese box lunch
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
bento; Japanese box lunch
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply
free time; time at leisure
stillness; silence; quiet; hush; calm; serenity
reading partway; leaving half-read
novel; story; (work of) fiction
imagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
substitute (actor); stand-in; fill-in; understudy; double
to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
that is to say; so that means
trivial; trifling; slight; insignificant
to be broken; to break; to break (down); to stop working; to fall through (of a plan, deal, etc.); to collapse
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
missed spot (in shaving); unshaven hairs
colour and lustre; color and luster; complexion; colour; color
defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
to be reflected in a mirror
skeleton; skeletal structure; build; framework
to put to bed; to let sleep; to lay (something) down; to put on its side; to let (money, goods, etc.) lie idle; to set aside unused
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
movements; bearing; deportment; farewell dinner (given by someone about to leave on a trip)
womanly; ladylike; feminine
androgynous; gender-neutral