helper; assistant; help; assistance
lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking
American film; American movie
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to parody; to make a parody of; to pun (on); to twist; to distort
generally; on the whole; general; rough; outline; main points
twelve o'clock; noon; midnight
belief; faith; conviction
this and that; one thing and another
to carry on one's back; to bear; to take (responsibility); to assume; to suffer (an injury); to sustain (a wound)
letter of challenge (to a duel, etc.)
to be excited; to be nervous; to be thrilled
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
to speak brazenly; to never shut up
brave; valiant; gallant; stirring; vigorous; rousing
rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
innocent; blameless; guiltless
to trample underfoot; to tread on; to crush with a foot
to scream; to whine; to grumble; to complain
foolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour; savage valor; brute courage
to smash; to break (into pieces); to shatter; to simplify; to make easy to understand
haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
in good health; healthy; skilled; proficient; master; expert
lapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind; forgetting for a moment something one knows well
to shorten the distance (between); to close the gap (e.g. on the leader); to get closer (e.g. to someone); to close in (on)
to blow through; to blow across
glossy (e.g. hair); sleek; shiny; lustrous
haughty; arrogant; pompous; self-important
to mellow (e.g. personality); to be rounded; to huddle; to cower
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
totally (immersed in something, e.g. liquid, work); addicted