nature; property; disposition
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
several times; a few times
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing
to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
to complain; to make a complaint
enticement; inducement; attraction
tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability
to set a watch; to post guards
small point; knob; protuberance; aloneness; loneliness; solitude
to crown; to cap; to prefix with; to start with; to begin with
to fall flat; to collapse in a heap
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
empirical; from experience
on the same occasion; at the same time; coincidentally; along with; partly (to do, for)
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
irritant odor; irritant odour; irritating smell (odor, odour)
green; greenery (esp. fresh verdure)
waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
(bearing a) close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past); dim; faint; vague
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
to dunk (e.g. food in a drink)
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
a round; a turn; going around; first anniversary of a person's death
to be found; to be discovered
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
to expose oneself (e.g. to danger)