to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
my goodness!; oh my!; oh dear!
you could say; you might say; verging on the
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
parent-child relationship
father's side of family; paternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off
role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
good quality; fine quality; superior quality; high quality
maliciousness; ill will; noxious gas; (arch.) (vengeful) ghost; (arch.) specter
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
returning home; visiting one's parents; new bride's first visit to parents
to be; to exist; to be (honorific copula)
close; intimate; on good terms
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
restoration (to original state or location); reconstruction; reversion
to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl
progress; advance; improvement; development
enforcement; implementation; putting into practice; carrying out; operation; working (e.g. working parameters)
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
urgent business; pressing need; imperative
imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective
returning tit for tat; retaliating
to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
even more; still more; further
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
principle; theory; fundamental truth
foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone