Vocabulary

to keep standing; to stand motionless

to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

to bring out (the effect of); to put to good use; to make use of (e.g. threats); to use (e.g. intimidation); to take advantage of (e.g. one's influence); to season (with salt, etc.)

to slide down; to slip down

to think up; to think out; to work out; to come up with; to devise; to invent

to return; to come back; to go back

to visit; to call on

to receive; to take; to accept

to stand up; to get up; to rise (to one's feet)

to strain (oneself); to bear down; to exert oneself; to try (too) hard; to draw one's body taut

to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.)

to be softened; to calm down

to confide; to reveal; to disclose; to lay bare; to speak frankly; to open (one's heart)

to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

to push away; to thrust aside

to sharpen; to hone; to whet; to grind

to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to grow out / extend

to draw (the winning ticket)

to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin

to appear uncomfortable (with); to seem to hate; to express dislike

to not know how to act or what to do; to be at a loss

to compose; to put together

to be burned out (of one's home)

to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous

to grow angry; to display one's anger

to rage; to storm (at); to be furious

to tease; to irritate; to tantalize; to keep (someone) in suspense

to differ; to be different; to disagree; to vary; to diverge

to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps

to lie down; to stretch out

to earn (income); to make (money)

to become fine (of fabric)

to sob; to never stop crying; to cry on and on

to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in

to narrow; to reduce; to contract

to concentrate; to focus on; to devote; to apply oneself

to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on

to see without obstruction; to get an unobstructed view (of); to see through

to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)

to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to reminisce about