living in peace; living a quiet life; being content with one's present position; being satisfied with one's lot
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
that; the matter in question
small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
delay; lag; postponement; falling behind
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
government; administration
unreliable; undependable; untrustworthy; not to be counted on
to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out
supply; supplying; replenishment
stealthily; secretly; in secret
stairs; stairway; staircase
second day of the month; two days
to pass (of time); to elapse
third day of the month; three days
fifth day of the month; five days
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
if you think about it; come to think of it
compensation; equivalent value; consideration
to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
under one's eyes; below one's eyes
street at night; making a night journey
swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
along; parallel to; in accordance with
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
inference; deduction; induction; reasoning
word game; wordplay; playing with words
thought; consideration; thinking
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
law-like nature; regularity
pause; suspension; rest; stoppage
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort