to deem acceptable; to approve of; to value; to consider a good thing
to attack; to assault; to challenge; to take on; to be bold; to be audacious
to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard
in the meanwhile; during the time
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine
to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
symbol (of something abstract); emblem; (symbolic) representation
literally; self-explanatorily
hollow; cavity; hole; cave
open; public; overt; free; unreserved; uninhibited
flexibility; pliability; softness; elasticity
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
pessimism; (taking a) gloomy view; discouragement; despondency; despair; disappointment
wing; Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (arch.) counter for birds or bird wings
rejection (of an application)
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
with a whiff; with a puff; suddenly; abruptly; without warning
to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
to control; to command; to get the better of
global positioning system; GPS
misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)
doing whatever one pleases; selfishness; self-indulgence
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
search; lookup; hunt; (item of) research; exploration; investigation
the whole area; the entire region; all parts (of); the whole field (of study); every field; the whole gamut
to set (sun); to become dark
reckless; (at) random; haphazard; blind; sudden; abrupt
extreme logic; extreme argument; unreserved argument