to allow (someone or something) to come near; to let get close
police; polis (ancient Greek city state); -city
Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean sea (oceanography)
colonization; colonisation
to lay the foundation (for)
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
going around; orbiting; circling; circumference; girth; surroundings
occlusion; absorption (of a gas)
geothermal electric power generation
limitation; restriction; condition; constraints
to throw into; to dump in together
to be set up (completely); to be put together; to be composed (e.g. type)
germination; germ; sprout; bud; sign
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke
to direct; to guide; to orient; to orientate; to align
to throw oneself (into an activity)
idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
with all one's strength; with might and main; as hard as one can
erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion
to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up
to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off
split; division; break up
adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
telephone made from two cans and a piece of string
running parallel (to); running side-by-side; keeping pace (with)
to be defeated; to be beaten; to be unsuccessful; to lose
to leave one's footprints; to leave one's mark on; to leave a message (behind)
to be subject to punishment; to be punished
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth