Vocabulary

to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to sail across

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid; to become impure (of a liquid or gas)

to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; to locate; to identify

to launch; to shoot up; to hit (a ball) high

to yearn for; to long for; to pine for; to miss; to love dearly; to adore

to compromise; to meet halfway

to use up; to exhaust; to run out of

to buy back; to redeem

to tell someone's fortune; to divine (the future)

to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to put an end to

to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; to be in a fix; to be in a desperate situation; to be in a pinch; to be in a predicament

to win; to gain victory

to bend; to curve; to warp; to wind; to twist; to turn

to form; to make; to constitute

to begin; to start; to commence

to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)

to buy (stock, materials, etc.); to purchase; to lay in; to stock; to procure

to finish; to get it over with; to conclude

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set

to bud; to sprout

to slide into; to slip into

to shine; to glitter; to be bright

to shine; to glitter

to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down

to soak; to saturate; to suckle; to make one hold something in the mouth; to include; to instruct

to contain; to comprise; to have; to hold; to include; to embrace

to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on

to be breathtaking; to be stifling

to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to

to let leak; to let out (e.g. light)

to be buried; to be covered; to be surrounded

to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from

to crowd out; to push out; to squeeze out

to jump down; to leap down; to jump off; to leap off

to be ready; to be prepared; to be arranged

to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor

to manage; to deal with; to cope with

to put someone to work; to make someone work

to disappear; to vanish