beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
hateful; abominable; poor-looking; amazing; fantastic; admirable
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.); (feeling) uneasy
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
to regard (as); to recognize (as); to see as; to pay attention to; to watch
crushing; squashing; crumpling; squishing; with a smash; with a crunch
to wrinkle; to crinkle; to shrivel
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; loosely (hanging); limply
unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; wavering (in one's mind); unsteadily; aimlessly; unconsciously
of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless
fast-talking; rapid talking
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle
consequence; outcome; result; blame
relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
to look out on; to overlook; to face (a situation, crisis, etc.); to meet (e.g. death); to deal with (an issue); to attend (e.g. a function)
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
individual play; one-man effort; non-cooperation; playing on one's own; selfish play
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants
valuation; appraisal; evaluation; appreciation; recognition; acknowledgement
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to look at (something) from another perspective; to put it the other way round; to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time
trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
unsuited; inappropriate; improper; undeserved
those (near the second person)
conclusive evidence; positive proof; definite proof; confirmation
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers
advice; counsel; suggestion; tip; hint
to be within others' sight; to be visible; to be conspicuous; to attract public attention; to come under observation
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
idea; plan; fancy; impulse; thought; whim