contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
locker room; changing room; dressing room
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow (i.e. bending of the body); bowing; reward
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; with a bob of the head
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
to squeeze out; to wring out
to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
has reached its limit (with this); has reached its peak (here)
scale; scope; plan; structure
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
the whole area; the entire region; all parts (of); the whole field (of study); every field; the whole gamut
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity
drama; play; powerful drug
permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
homogenization; homogenisation
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
surreal; surrealism; shul; schul
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
aspect; phase; condition; modality
interpretation; explanation; reading; construction
just one person; only one
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
victim; injured party; sufferer
postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post (on a blog, social media, etc.)
to be traumatized; to be shocked
to climb over; to get over; to overcome (a difficulty, obstacle, etc.); to surmount; to surpass (a predecessor); to overtake
inside one's heart; in one's mind
trigger (of a gun, etc.); trigger (for something); immediate cause
perpetrator; wrong-doer; aggressor; assailant; offender; at-fault party (e.g. in an accident)