hospitality; reception; treatment; (light) refreshment; entertaining with food and drink; treat
one's nature; one's feelings; plain; unadorned; mere; poor
link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging
to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)
connection; linking; linkage; link; liaison; contact
meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
somersault; looping-the-loop
confused fight; free-for-all; melee; dogfight; scuffle; rough-and-tumble
to focus on; to bring into focus
desperately; for one's dear life
drip; fall drop-by-drop; suddenly (of drops of water)
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
stripe; bar; streak; (weaved) stripe pattern (of 2 or more different colors)
emergency staircase; fire escape
metal plate; metallic plate
boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
every ...; every other ...; at intervals of ...; with ... in between; ... apart
underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret
through a (computer, etc.) screen
big welcome; welcoming greatly; being very welcome
to begin to walk; to set out
to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge; to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
parched; dried-up; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering
German chamomile (Matricaria recutita); German camomile
whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
(not) very; (not) so; (not) very much; (not) particularly; (not) especially
dangling; aimlessly; casually; unexpectedly
smelling of mud; smelling of earth; unrefined; unpolished; uncouth
first-come-first-served basis
stationery shop; a stationer
(playground) slide; (ship) launching platform; sliding ways; slipway
to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that
oh well, fine; fine, I guess; alright, I suppose; OK, then
postbox; mailbox; pillar box
stamp (postage); merchandise certificate
also known as; also called