confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
such; like that; that sort of; very
topic; subject; much talked about; topical; in the news
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to be found; to be discovered
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
even if; even though; however; no matter how
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
with a start; in surprise; suddenly (realize, remember, etc.); all of a sudden; puffing (air); with a puff
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
unprepared; careless; imprudent; indiscreet
way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
to make an appeal; to urge
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
it's best to; it's safest to; there's nothing better than