self-praise; praising oneself
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
prototype model; experimental machine
hygiene; sanitation; health
to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration
outing; excursion; pleasure trip; going on a picnic
to rage; to storm (at); to be furious; to enthuse; to speak enthusiastically; to speak with vigour
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
to be attentive to small details; to be attentive to others (or others' concerns); to have one's mind turn groundlessly to something negative
act of God; irresistible force; inevitability; force majeure; vis major
you're lying; yeah, right; liar; fibber
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other
sweetener (sugar, honey, saccharin, maltose, etc.); sweetening agent; sweetening
even if nothing else; more than anything else
one's own work; making by oneself
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
filtration; filtering; percolation
foreign matter; impurities
to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
raw sugar; unrefined sugar
making efficient; optimization
emphasis; stress; main point; point of a lever where force is applied
point of action (e.g. of a lever)
towering; astonishingly high
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip
small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt
from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course
what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?
to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)
giving someone a ride on one's shoulders; shoulder wheel (judo)
calculating; sly; cunning; flirty; flirtatious
to watch steadily; to stare
to be effeminate; to be a fop; to break into a smile; to grin