serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
knowledge; awareness; acceptance; consent; forgiving; pardoning
shaking; trembling; pitching; disturbance; unrest; agitation
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
Mr; master; Ms; miss; (arch.) sir; (arch.) madam
past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
way of listening; listener
so-so; passable; now, now; there, there; my, my; oh my!
salt and pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray
bent back; hunchback; stoop
poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing
matter of time; question of time
to stop (doing something); to cease; to leave as is; to leave alone; to exclude; to except
to be shrouded in mist; to be enveloped in fog
to arrive home; to return
clear; precise; definite; distinct
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
sleepwalking; somnambulism; noctambulism
premises; grounds; campus; compound; precincts
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
threatening attitude; menacing look; angry look
time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance
to get out of bed; to show a leg
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
to run out; to rush out; to start running; to begin to run; to break into a run
what's what; heads or tails
thought; consideration; thinking
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern
late at night; at a late hour
to crunch; to masticate; to simplify; to explain plainly
last week; the week before
besides; in addition; also; moreover
to say; to tell; to state; to do
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
degenerate; pervert; deviant
to loiter; to hang around; to wander around; to prowl; to roam
assault; outrage; act of violence; rape (by force); sexual assault