rest period; intermission; break time; recess
support; backing; patronage
brute; beast; monster; inhuman person; ungrateful person
cold reception; inhospitality
odds and ends; all; every
tightly; exactly; precisely; close-fitting (e.g. suit); firm (body); lean
safety zone; buffer (e.g. against defeat)
degree (of something); greatness or smallness (of something); quantity; number; amount; size
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
additional finance; additional funding
raising (bet); raising (object); lifting; raising (topic); bringing up; raising (children); rearing
to shorten one's life (through hardship, etc.); to hasten one's death
equivalence; equal value; parity; (logical) equivalence
unskillful; childish; immature; naive; artless; clumsy
recklessness; daredevilry; daredevil; reckless person
banter; teasing; chaffing; merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping
decisive blow; game-winning hit (e.g. in baseball)
to resume breathing; to come around; to come back to life
irregular; bad bounce (in tennis); bad hop (in baseball)
proposal; motion; recommendation
seat (esp. in public places or places with assigned seating); seating
to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ...; it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that; on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision
listening to once; hearing once
information; experience; observation; seeing and hearing
point in common; common feature
to have a break in the conversation; to experience an awkward silence; (lit.) an angel passes
smell (esp. a good smell); fragrance; scent; aroma; perfume
apathetic; indifferent; nonchalant; callous
to kidnap (esp. by force or deception); to abduct; to snatch
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
computerization; computerisation
tremendous; rapid; dramatic
dispatch; despatch; transmission; informing (e.g. of opinion); sharing (thoughts, etc.); telling