surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
going ahead; going first; preceding; coming before; scoring first; getting off to a lead
please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point
to look at each other; to exchange looks; to correspond (to); to be proportionate (to); to be in keeping with
genuine article; real thing; real deal
confusion; distraction; derangement
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable
carbonic acid; carbonated water; carbonated drink; baking soda; sodium carbonate
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
too much for one to handle; beyond one's capacity; unmanageable; uncontrollable; incorrigible; obstreperous
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
quick; prompt; without delay; simple; easy; effortless
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
to telephone; to make a phone call
to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
doubtful; questionable; uncertain; disputable; suspicious
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
all of a sudden; suddenly; by chance; unexpectedly
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
desirable; hoped for; preferable; advisable
denial; negation; negation; NOT operation
to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin
to push aside; to brush aside
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
probably; (most) likely; in all likelihood; I suspect; I dare say; I'm afraid
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to come near (to); to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to reach (a stage, period, etc.); to overhang; to hang over
to part left and right; to open out
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
to insert; to put in; to come in (of light); to shine in; to have a griping pain (in the stomach, chest, etc.)