acquaintance; close friend
even though; despite; when
participation; joining; entry
to decide; to determine; to resolve; to break and overflow (e.g. levee); to collapse; to give way
arrangement; good offices; discretion; judgment; disposition
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
scandal; impropriety; misconduct
self restraint; moderating one's own behavior; confinement (esp. to one's home); house arrest; suspension (from work or school)
complete stranger; total stranger
to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about
personal affair; one's own affair
to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished
nothing new; same as always; an old story; nothing new about it; not the first time it has happened
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
before; prior to; ago; the past; before; previously
to go out and away; to leave
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
being very busy; busyness
matter (to attend to); business; affair; use; need
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
bad feeling; cares; ill feeling; grudge; sense of discomfort; discontent
intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly
consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude
swing and a miss; (punching and) failing to make contact; (ending in) failure; fruitless effort
to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
all over the island; throughout the island; on the island
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling
attendance; presence; visit; coming; advent
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
irritation; annoyance; frustration
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
the eyes; expression of the eyes; area around the eyes
before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently
he; she; that guy; that; that one; that thing
expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation