highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
instant; moment; for an instant
to lose heart; to lose interest; to lose motivation; to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose flavor
second (unit of time); arc second
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
death by suffocation; death by choking
to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
question; inquiry; enquiry
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university
department of a university; undergraduate (course, program, etc.)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
because of; on account of; regarding; per; apiece
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
future (usually near); prospects
club; fraternity; sorority; clubhouse
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
anything and everything; just about everything
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something
movements; behavior; behaviour; bearing; deportment; manners
component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
handsome man; man's looks; good looks; manliness
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
to project; to protrude; to pop out (e.g. eyes); to jump out; to rush out
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
to say; to be called; to do
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any