poor-quality; low-quality; shoddy; low-grade
beautiful face; beautiful looks; beauty; belle; handsome man
rare; uncommon; not often seen
spread; span; expanse; extent
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
harmful insect; noxious insect; pest; vermin
flight; desertion; escape
to knock down; to utterly defeat
superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
rooting up (weeds, etc.); eradication; rooting out; stamping out
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully
illegal; illicit; unlawful
to finish reading; to read through; to figure out; to fully anticipate
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
making frequent appearances; appearing often; appearing and disappearing
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite
word ending; way of ending one's words; slip of the tongue; verbal mistake
to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money); indicates that the action is directed towards the speaker; indicates that the object of an action arrives at or is received by the speaker
as soon as; no sooner than; one way or another; objection
to shoot (a gun, person, etc.); to fire
important matter; matters of weight
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
exposure to the sun; sunny place; per day
each; (arch.) you (plural)
to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible
all; wholly; entirely; completely; without exception
to be believed to; to be expected to; to be feared to; to be poised to; to be considered to; to be likely to
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment