to stretch; to reach to; to stand on tiptoe
arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict
to speak ill of; to disparage
to be needed; to be wanted
official in charge; person in charge
to pluck (e.g. a fruit, a leaf); to pick; to tear off (e.g. a ticket stub, a branch from a tree)
luggage; baggage; burden; payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)
congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder
to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
megaphone; bullhorn; loudhailer
tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
morale (of troops, team, etc.); esprit de corps
to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
indomitably; undauntedly; resolutely; determinedly
desperately; for one's dear life
to push aside; to brush aside
both; both sides; both parties
to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to gratefully accept
unclean; dirty; unsanitary; indecent; dirty (story, money, etc.); obscene
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
to stop walking; to pause