dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze
to come to one's senses; to calm down
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
clan; partisans; participation (e.g. in a plot); one flavour; one charm; one ingredient (in traditional Chinese medicine)
such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
finishing blow; coup de grâce
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
other people's affairs; somebody else's problem
lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
rope; cord; policeman's rope
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
power; might; authority; influence
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
to anticipate; to foresee
betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer
(with a) start; fright; alarm
to walk noisily; to walk loudly
to walk away; to saunter off
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together
to take part in; to be a party to; to side with; to support; to agree with
reward; recompense; return; punishment; retribution
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
to lower one's voice; to speak more softly
some people; a few people; several people
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
to clamour; to crowd; to jostle
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar
self-control; self-restraint
to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
to be outdone (by); to be in inferior (to); to compare unfavorably (with); to be behind