cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
grief; sorrow; extreme sadness; heartbreak
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
dirty-looking; filthy; disgusting; squalid
filthy; unfair; dirty; untouchable; disgusting; nasty
to coat a surface with something that adheres strongly when hardened (i.e. grout, plaster, lacquer); to cover up (e.g. truth); to varnish (e.g. with lies, rumors)
mockery; derision; ridicule
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
to dawdle; to waste time doing nothing in particular; to fret; to sulk; to rain on and off
negative (result); gloomy; negative (e.g. attitude); pessimistic
separate; special; another; separately
remains; dregs; vestiges; remnant; residue
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
biography of a brave fighter; heroic saga; chivalric romance; tale of one's heroism; episode of bravery; acts of violence
loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman
to lower the curtain (at the end of a play); to come to an end; to finish
somehow; for some reason or other
(one's) favourite food; (one's) favorite food
duvet; bed cover; coverlet; quilt; comforter; eiderdown
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
my personal (e.g. opinion)
all right; very well; okay; I got it
(young and) innocent; naive; pure; fresh; artless; unsophisticated
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
frizzy (hair); wiry; sizzling; frizzling; stingingly (of heat or cold); painfully
to shake; to tremble; to sway; to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate
one by one; in detail; minutely
embarrassed smile; embarrassed laugh; bashful smile
interruption; suspension; break
to make an incessant onslaught; to attack incessantly
(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go
esophagus; oesophagus; gullet
alternating between happiness and anxiety; swinging between joy and sorrow; being glad and sad by turns; oscillating between optimism and pessimism
coming out (disclosing one's sexual orientation or gender identity); revealing (e.g. something embarrassing); disclosure; announcement