private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
leaving the front line; retiring from the game; deserting the battle
to regard someone with odium; to look at someone with reproach
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
cross-examination; close questioning; demanding an explanation
indifferent; unconcerned; nonchalant; unmindful; inattentive; careless
orpiment; gamboge; falsification; alteration
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
recitation; reciting from memory
point in common; common term; common trait; common denominator
matter; thing; affair; circumstance
agreement; coincidence; correspondence; conformity
to shoot dead; to bring down (an animal); to win (a prize, someone's heart, etc.); to make one's own
to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through
to go on the defensive; to play it safe
remaining silent; keeping secret
person concerned; person qualified; person in question; party; litigant (legal)
driving off a troublesome person; getting rid of a nuisance
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
outside world; physical world
to tell (to do); to order; to tell on (someone); to tattle; to often say
to prick up one's ears and listen; to listen attentively
departure time; flight time
still more; even more; much more; increased; greater
to do together; to share; to participate in
to search for; to seek for; to look for
dialogue; discussion; conversation; interaction
mad (with grief, love, etc.); crazy; out of one's mind; on the verge of insanity
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long
to open some distance (e.g. with other people)
pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
to pull the trigger; to squeeze the trigger
adversary; opposition; hostile forces