to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
offender; criminal; culprit
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
that; the matter in question
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
way to use something; treatment; management (of help)
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
probability; likelihood; chances
to some extent; to a certain extent