to show; to display; to make (something or someone) look ...; to present an appearance of ...; to make (something) worth watching; to be entertaining; to have (something) looked at (by a specialist)
(school) recital; school concert; class presentation; presentation (for a new product, etc.); announcement event; launch event
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
abstention (from voting); renunciation (of a right); withdrawal (from a contest)
danger; peril; hazard; risk
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
case; occasion; situation; circumstances
script; screenplay; scenario
performer; actor; actress; cast
anything and everything; just about everything
first-year student; first-year pupil; beginner; novice; annual; annual plant
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
every year; yearly; annually
established practice; custom
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed
to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)
other people's affairs; someone else's problem
to stare back (at); to glare back
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
coercion; overpowering; overawing; daunting
to relax; to release tension from one's muscles; to let go limp
to lean (on, against); to rest (against); to recline; to rely on (someone); to depend on
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
estimate (of costs); budget
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone); to entrust (to someone); to leave (to chance, one's imagination, etc.); to let (take its own course); to use (money, strength, spare time, etc.) to the full; to use freely
boy; son; baby boy; young man
quiz; short test; mini test
leak (of secrets, information, etc.); disclosure; divulging; leak (of gas, liquid, etc.); leakage; escape (of gas)
principal offence; principal offense; principal offender
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty
the real criminal; true culprit
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
like a decent person; human
starring (in a film, play, etc.); playing the leading part