busy; hurried; confused; flurried
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
shrill; strident; sharp (pain, e.g. headache, earache); ice-cold; very cold
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
late at night; small hours of the morning
tinnitus; ringing in the ears
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
simultaneously; all at once; in unison
to sing; to chirp; to twitter
noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe
to strike; to clap; to play drums; to abuse; to bash; to consult; to sound out
metal rod; metal bar; iron rod; iron club; iron staff with rings on top (traditionally used by night watchmen)
ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
oscillation; vibration; swing (e.g. of a pendulum)
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
grabbing hold; eagle grip; tight hold
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
disharmony; discord; dissonance; incongruity