study; library; den; home office; reading room
socializing; getting on with people; personal relations
touch; contact; contact (with people); dealings; tangency
preconception; preconceived notion; prejudice
lumping together (things or people); treating (everyone) alike; handling indiscriminately; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with (various things) under one head
mob; the masses; rabble; all things in nature; the whole creation
referral fee; introduction fee
how much; how many; however
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy
cool; indifferent; apathetic; cold; cold-hearted; heartless
either way; in any case; one way or another
between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis
woman's heart; female instincts or psychology
to strike someone a blow; to bring down (a stick on someone's head)
circumstances; sequence of events; how things got this way; details; particulars
self-defense; self-defence
matter (to attend to); business; affair; use; need
occupant of a house; family member; household member (incl. servants)
to push (something) out; to jut out (can have a negative nuance); to protrude; to rise out the trap door (on stage)
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
upstart; nouveau riche; new money; piece promoted to gold general
to get shabby; to go downhill; to go to seed; to go to the dogs
moneylending; moneylender
nucleus; backbone; medium-level; mid-level; main body (of troops); crack troops
street vendor; stallholder; stallkeeper
even more; still more; one layer; lowest floor (of a building); rather; sooner
to spur (on); to expedite; to encourage
vulgar; indecent; crude; jumbled (of a place); disorderly; chaotic
to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce
near oneself; close to one; familiar
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
polite; courteous; civil; friendship; (sexual) intimacy
to be a bad influence (on something); to corrupt; to poison
to step forward; to volunteer
to count on one's fingers
history of one's love affairs
wearing thick clothes; dressing warmly
way one walks; one's walk
quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)
to excite; to incite; to stimulate; to arouse; to tempt; to stir up