nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to be lifted up; to be hung up; to twitch upwards; to turn upward; to slant upward
to be disheartened; to be dejected; to be discouraged; suddenly (losing a lot of weight); looking emaciated; becoming very thin
to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
armchair; chair with arm rests; senior staff
to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on
deep; profound; dense; thick; close (relationship); intense; strong
to sigh; to breathe a sigh
already; now; no longer; not any more
function; facility; faculty; feature
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
reorganization; reorganisation; reshuffle
100,000; hundred thousand
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
meaning; significance; sense
casualties; the killed and wounded
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
anything and everything; just about everything
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
mobilization; mobilisation
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
cleaning up somebody else's mess; carrying the can; ass-wiping; arse-wiping
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that