absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
to deem acceptable; to approve of; to value; to consider a good thing
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
never mind!; don't worry about it
to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...
mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but
waste of time; killing time
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
meaning; significance; sense
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
perhaps; probably; generous; many; much
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to look fondly at
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
to apologize; to apologise
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend