to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await
revelation; manifestation; appearance; expression (e.g. in molecular biology; protein expression or gene expression)
function; facility; faculty; feature
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; (putting into) practice; execution (of a program); run
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)
two sheets (of paper or other flat objects)
value judgement; value judgment
difference; variation; difference
right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages
to present; to offer; to show; to display; to assume (e.g. a shape)
romanticist; romantic; dreamer
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
race; tribe; species; genus; stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)
half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality
to break the silence; to break one's silence
Moon; month; moonlight; (a) moon; natural satellite
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance
side; flank; position where one is not directly involved (in a matter); outsider's position; the sidelines
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
to stop talking; to break off; to pause
barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house
to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)
feel (of something); touch; texture; feeling; impression
binding (someone) hand and foot; being tied down (by rules, obligations, etc.)
knowing what is right and not doing it is a want of courage
deed; act; conduct; behavior; asceticism
opening fully; full throttle; full power
reverse thrust; retrofiring; sudden mental derangement
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy
seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
to become thin; to lose weight; to slim; to become impoverished (of soil); to become sterile; to become infertile