Vocabulary

to fit (e.g. a pane into a frame); to insert (e.g. a cork); to fasten (a button)

to fit (e.g. a pane into a frame); to set (e.g. a diamond); to inlay; to insert

to joke; to jest; to kid; to josh

to loiter; to hang around; to wander around; to prowl; to roam

to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart

to be utterly disheartened

to possess; to haunt

to knock out (e.g. a homer); to slam; to send flying (e.g. a ball); to wallop (someone)

to pinch; to nip

to curve; to twist

to curve; to twist; to be rebellious

to be peevish; to sulk; to pout

to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

to knead; to mix with fingers

to pickpocket; to steal

to wrench open

to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort

to screw in

to wring off; to wrest from

to twist (e.g. someone's arm); to wrench

to twist off

to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

to stub out (e.g. a cigarette); to crush out; to smother (fire)

to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid

to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to arrest; to capture

to droop

to lean coquettishly against; to snuggle into; to nestle into

to send (something) flying; to splatter

to flatly refuse; to reject; to spurn

to raise (one's head)

to blur; to shade off; to gradate

to expose (a severed head)

to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly

to pluck; to pick; to tear

to get dressed up

to dry up (spring, pond, etc.); to run out

to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell

to bring into the open; to reveal; to uncover (e.g. evidence); to bring to light

to warm (e.g. one's hands over a fire); to dry

to smoke (e.g. a pipe); to puff (a cigarette); to burn (incense)