your home; your family; their home; (my) home
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond
to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by
mother; mom; wife; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); she
hello; good day; good afternoon
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
puzzled; perplexed; quizzical; dubious; suspicious
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
daily routine; daily work; daily lesson
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with
(place) near by; (place) close by; (place) right next to; as soon as; right after
early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; (emotionally) cold; coldhearted; unfeeling
chilly; unpleasantly cold
sunny (room, etc.); well sunlit
sunlight; rays of the Sun
line; queue; procession; matrix
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
ahead; forward; (in) front; having a square front
to speak; to hear a voice
memory; sense; experience
(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior
to taper to a point; to become pointed; to be on edge; to be nervous; to be sharp (of a voice, words, etc.); to be harsh
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
glasses; eyeglasses; judgment; judgement; four-eyes
long slits (esp. of eyes)
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?