back; rear; background; backdrop; backing; support; going backwards
keen; eager; enthusiastic; motivated; determined; positive
crying oneself to sleep; giving up in frustration; accepting meekly; being compelled to accept a situation
to judge; to try; to sit in judgement (on); to decide (on)
with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
sidelong glance; flirtatious glance
visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; dealing (a hit); striking (a blow)
impudence; audacity; shamelessness; effrontery
splendid; praiseworthy; admirable; well done!; bravo!
can do nothing but ...; have no choice but to ...; there is nothing to do but ...; cannot help ...
clanging; banging; throbbing (headache); pounding; fully; vigorously
putting on the market; putting on sale; making commercially available; commercial; off-the-shelf; store-bought
to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
union; unity; bundling; binding; (arch.) putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)
information leak; data breach
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
feeling of dread; awful feeling; sense of fear
by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all
sex life; sexual activities
to let down one's guard; to relax one's guard
to bend; to flutter; to wave; to yield to; to be swayed by; to bow to
classified information; top secret
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
present (brought by a visitor); gift
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
Dirty Hands (1948 play by Jean-Paul Sartre)
one grain; one drop; one bead
with the skin on; skin and all (fruit, potato, etc.)
different opinion; objection
to turn completely into; to become completely
laconic; of few words; reticent; quiet
birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
unfair; unjust; wrongful; improper; unreasonable; unwarranted
to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve
to see; to look; to watch; to try to ...
you could say that; that might be so
suppuration; festering; purulence; pyosis; coming to a head; infection
to mistake (A for B); to misread
collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection
application; entry; request; subscription; offer; proposal