tearing; ripping; crunching; munching; stiff; starchy; (working) hard
straight; straightforward; direct; neat (e.g. spirits); black (e.g. tea, coffee); entering university directly from high school; fast ball
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
censorship; inspection; examination
currently nowhere to be seen; unknown where it went; disappeared into thin air
ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around
fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed); location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra; difficulties (in a love relationship); crunch time (esp. for cartoonists)
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper; to clench one's teeth; to grit one's teeth
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
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 pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
to have an idea; to have a clue
first experience (of something); first sexual experience
egosearching; egosurfing; self-googling
to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate
defenseless; defenceless; unprotected; vulnerable
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to pierce with a spear
(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
to feel irritated; to feel offended; to feel angry; to feel sick; to feel nauseous
to become serious; to take something seriously (joke, teasing); to become irritated or angry (usu. at something trivial); to get worked up
rare; strange; odd; peculiar
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)