to shake off; to shake free from; to swing completely (bat, club, etc.); to take a full swing; to break off from (pursuer); to pull away
to take another good look at; to reconsider; to analyze; to reexamine
passionate; hot-blooded; full of vitality
live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
attribute; property; context; character class, type, fetish, etc.
the positive and the negative
someone with a liking or characteristic; a true representative of (place)
lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk
to insinuate; to satirize; to satirise; to take a dig at
feeling sick; feeling queasy; feeling nauseated; being angry; being offended; being disgusted
to get carried away; to become over-excited; to push one's luck; to push a good thing too far
to be at a loss for words
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
leaving everything up to someone else
painstaking piece of work; work of great effort; tour de force; toil; labor; labour
leadership; initiative; spearhead
attending (school, college, etc.); being enrolled; being a student
focus of one's attention; what one is looking for
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
unfashionable; uncouth; unrefined; unpolished; unsophisticated
Latin (language); Latin-American; Latin; Latin; Roman
practice; practising; experience
garnish (e.g. vegetables with a meat dish); trimmings; fixings; relish
handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
stone; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); stone (in go); stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.); calculus
to be collected; to be gathered (e.g. mushrooms, etc.); to be harvested; to be able to collect; to be able to mine
grinding; polishing; refining (skill, knowledge, etc.); striving to master something
to lash out at; to flare up at; to fly at; to turn on