to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
literally; to the letter; literal
to be evasive; to give an evasive answer; to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate; to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation; to make do with
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
classical elegance; antiquity
cellar; cave; hole in the ground
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)
to hide; to be hidden; to conceal oneself; to disappear
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
housing district; residential district
wooden house; frame house (building)
open; spacious; extensive
urban area; urban district
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
ancient city; former capital
fine view; beautiful sight
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
face; looks; vestiges; trace
dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy
to begin (doing); to start (doing)
if it is the case that ...
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
third day of the month; three days
accumulation; accumulate; store
source of river; fountainhead
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
regret; chagrin; mortification; freedom from obstructive thoughts
spare energy, time or money; remaining strength; reserve power; money to spare
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
becoming dull (of a knife, one's wits, etc.); becoming blunt
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
to insert; to include; to incorporate; to cut in (printing)
branch road; branch path; fork road
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
outsider's perspective; as seen by an observer