moment by moment; hour by hour
punishment; spanking; smacking; chastisement; scolding
with a start; with a jump
blunder; bungle; clumsiness
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
trembling from fear; trembling all over
sniff; sniff-sniff (esp. an animal); whining; whimpering
useless resistance; vain struggle
not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser
present continuous tense; present progressive form
sanity; consciousness; soberness
Lakitu (Nintendo character)
house; plastic greenhouse; house music; go to your kennel (cage, bed, etc.)!
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
place; room; margin; scope
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
blood relative; close relation; (one's) flesh and blood; flesh and blood; the body
to sink (into); to cave in; to get stuck in
piece of meat; cut of meat
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
stone (of a fruit); pit; core (of an organization, team, etc.); nucleus; nuclear weapons; nucleus (of an atom); nucleus (of a cell)
buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end
to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in
to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
dripping with sweat; bathed in perspiration
tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous
to admire greatly; to salute (in admiration); to take one's hat off to
tummy; tumtum; bang-bang; pop-pop; without reservation; unreservedly
soft to the touch (e.g. fur, feathers); fluffy; to stroke (something fluffy); to rub; to pat
death penalty; capital punishment
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly