wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood
bubble; foam; froth; head on beer
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
unnatural; affected; studied; forced
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
banter; raillery; ridicule; teasing; making fun of
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
living thing; organism; creature; biology
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
every person; every mouth; every entrance
while; during (the time when)
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
vocal sound; tone of voice
(verbal) abuse; denunciation; disparagement; vilification; scathing criticism
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
improper way (of doing); wrong way; unorthodox method; evil course; evil path; heresy
stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving
lively; energetic; vigorously (jumping, flopping, etc.); piercing (e.g. sound); penetrating
lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter
to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience
to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with
quarrel; dispute; argument
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
to be pleased with; to suit
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
expressing one's mind; speaking out
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
it's not like; it isn't as if
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
to scatter; to sprinkle; to spray; to lavish (money, charm, etc.)
different thing; another question; different case
dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze
to ask a question; to ask questions
intentionally; on purpose; deliberately; taking something into account
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come