confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
embarrassed; feeling ashamed; feeling awkward
such; this sort of; like this
to be shy; to be bashful; to feel awkward; to feel embarrassed
a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly
innocent; naive; artless; unsophisticated; pure; fresh
couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
expression; look; countenance; face
imagination; supposition; guess
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
not yet known; unknown; strange
other than; excluding; without
to need; to call for; to require
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
peerless; matchless; unparalleled; unrivalled; unequalled; incomparable
followers; subordinates; being under someone's command
one's confidant; trusted friend; trusted retainer
head; brains; intellect; understanding
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
of course; certainly; naturally
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
shyness; bashfulness; shame
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
to jump upon (a moving object)
to be affected; to be theatrical; to be pompous
just one person; only one