thanks; gratitude; appreciation; thankfulness
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
serious matter; major incident; matter of grave concern; crisis
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice
(person) seeming like a genius; (having) the temperament of a prodigy
deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe
to think too much; to be over-concerned
dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
to relax; to release tension from one's muscles; to let go limp
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife
only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be
ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing
to intensify; to be excited; to fly into a rage; to dash against; to encourage
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
repeatedly; over and over again; fully (e.g. understand); very much; very well
knowledge; awareness; acceptance; consent; forgiving; pardoning
to let the tension out of one's shoulders; to relax; to not take oneself too seriously
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
to brace one's legs; to stand firm; to plant one's feet (firmly on the ground); to hold out; to persist; to make an effort
growth; development; stretching (one's body, e.g. when waking up); (ability to) spread (of paint, cream, etc.); elongation; extension
best; supreme; wonderful; highest; maximum; most
reaching; attaining; arrival
as one wishes; as one wants; to one's satisfaction
front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
further; above (that); greater (than that); any more
using every trick in the book; using every trick one knows; by one rouse or another; with careful coaxing; carefully (e.g. nursing a damaged vehicle)
opinion; view; comment; scolding; reprimand; rebuke
to pile up; to accumulate
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain
to sense; to infer; to gather; to pick up on; to get wind of; to perceive
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
to push someone (towards); to encourage someone
to steal a glance (at); to look furtively (at); to take a peek (at)
to be anxious (about); to be concerned (about); to think out (e.g. a plan); to work out; to investigate
weak; weakly; feeble; frail; delicate; faint (voice, sunlight, etc.)