aspiration; ambition; plan; hopes; wishes
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
first meeting; first interview with
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
to live; to reside; to inhabit
guess; speculation; supposition
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
sudden; abrupt; impromptu skit; bandwagon fan; fair-weather fan
to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
sluggishly; slowly; ploddingly; stolidly (standing); impassively
to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
just past noon; afternoon
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
eager; earnest; ardent; OFF (on switch)
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
remedy for a cold; cold medicine
in the meantime; meanwhile
to hesitate; to hold back; to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus
to confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on
farmer; farming family; farmhouse
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
close (relationship, connection, etc.); intimate; near; close (together)
to be negligent in doing something; to shirk; to be off one's guard
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
shadow; shade; shading; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size