eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort
to know shame; to have a sense of shame; to be ashamed
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
to rock; to shake; to swing
to become calm; to die down
restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
presence (impressive quality)
to feel ashamed; to be abashed
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
unshapely; unsightly; clumsy; unpresentable; uncouth; awkward
coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
amiability; friendliness; fondness (of someone); affection; compliments; civilities
to use completely; to use up; to exhaust; to exhaust somebody's civility; to give up (on someone)
to keep talking; to go on and on; to talk non-stop
menial; meanness; servility; abject
greenhouse; hothouse; conservatory; glasshouse
to be in full bloom; to blossom in full glory; to be in fullness of bloom
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
-less; lacking; non-existing
to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
small amount; jot; nothing much; (to a) slight degree; wee bit
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
for work; for manufacturing
scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation
to smoke (e.g. fire); to billow smoke; to smoulder; to be hazy; to look dim
night view; night skyline; nightscape
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into