people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
temporary; transient; trifling; trivial; careless; perfunctory
to read and understand; to interpret (e.g. a difficult text); to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
possibly; by some possibility; perhaps
throughout; all through; right through
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
to say goodbye; to bid farewell
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
to look old; to become time-worn; to become worn out; to become old and grubby; to become musty
pendant (jewelry); pendant (light)
indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited; listless
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
but; however; although; though
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one