to rub together (e.g. one's hands)
to taste; to try (food or drink)
independence from parents
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)
action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
to be worried; to be troubled
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)
should; must; -able; probably; likely
in one's own way or style
overprotective; excessive care; overprotection; overprotectiveness
loveable; very likeable; like very much
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you
to make a slip of the tongue; to let something slip
flustered; confused; panicked
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
to become familiar with and cherish; to get to know and love
to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)
to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
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
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
early; soon; quickly; swiftly; rapidly
to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
(one acting as a) foster parent
to be kind to; to treat kindly
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
Kerry (Ireland); Kelley; Kerrey
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
many; numerous; various; large number of
to wander from place to place; to change jobs
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)