unexpected; surprising; unanticipated; strange; unforeseen
easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
way; manner; (for) the first time in (e.g. ten years); after ...; ...-sized; amount (equivalent to ...)
imagination; supposition; guess
to tease; to make fun of; to ridicule; to mock; to play with (e.g. a toy); to fiddle with
chilly; unpleasantly cold
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
air conditioning; air cooling
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
almost; nearly; for the most part; roughly; approximately; about
to fix; to settle; to standardize; constant; definite; uniform
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
lock; lock (in rugby); lock forward
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from; to dodge (a question, blow, etc.)
operation (of a machine); running; driving (a vehicle); use (of capital, funds, etc.); management
to master something (through personal experience)
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
to start rowing; to begin to row; to row out (e.g. to sea); to pull out; to start pedaling; to begin to pedal
something; some kind of; for some reason
isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...
(in spite of) being old enough to know better
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
persecution complex; delusion of persecution; paranoia
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
from the beginning; without hesitation; entirely; completely; head-on; head-first
anything and everything; just about everything
U-turn; returning home (after a vacation); moving back to one's (rural) hometown (after having lived in a big city)
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)
(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
to step firmly (on); to harden by treading