leader; authority; mainstay
to tell someone's fortune; to divine (the future); to predict; to forecast
to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine
(transplant) rejection; strong reaction (against)
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
to shun; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of (esp. one's health)
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
writing; composition; essay; sentence
poor-quality; shoddy; unskillful; inexpert; unlucky
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
shady online money-making
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
personal; individual; private
perusal; one reading; reading through (once)
doctors; teachers; lawyers
please (e.g. forgive me); I beg of you; kindly; humbly
network; Internet; net (e.g. hairnet, tennis net); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference
missus; missis; proprietress (of a shop, restaurant, etc.); landlady; hostess
one roll; one book; one volume; first volume; rolling once; wrapping once around
publication (of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); issue; issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.); raising (an event)
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
31st day of the month; 31 days
deadline; closing; closing (a door, window, etc.); cofferdam
and various other things; and many others; and all the rest; and so on and so forth
to repaint; to paint again; to paint (a different colour); to change completely; to break (a record); to redraw (e.g. the map)
right in the middle (of); midst; height
day after day; day by day
distrust; unjust suspicion
is something that; is that which
women and children; woman; grown woman; wife
sexy; popular; well-liked
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
to grow timid; to cower; to become perverse; to become contrary; to be cramped; to be constrained
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry