to harden one's heart; to steel oneself; to be ruthless; to become "it" (in hide-and-seek, etc.)
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
every evening; every night
appearance (in the eyes of society); decency
eloquence; fluency (of speech)
stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause
carelessness; careless mistake; blunder; wetting oneself; soiling oneself
substitution; alternative; substitute
to grant (a request); to accept; to hear (a prayer); to comply with (a demand)
practitioner; specialist; man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai
to dress oneself up; to deck oneself out
manuscript; version; draft
cutlery; silverware; flatware
brand (burnt-in mark of identification); branding iron
brake; drag; skid; brake (on inflation, spending, etc.); check; restraint
ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist
to pass by; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it; to go too far
to allow light to pass through; to shine light through
to slope; to descend; to slide (snow, etc.)
carrying (an infant, etc.) horizontally in one's arms; cradling; holding under one's arm
dwelling; house; residence; living; life
to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under
in the end; at the end of the day
outside the country; abroad
to follow; to accompany; to serve; to work under; to obey
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity
to rule over; to govern; to command; to integrate; to consolidate; to unite
to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)
to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)
supreme; sublime; highest
to put oneself in (situation, environment, etc.); to surround oneself with
to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember