Vocabulary

to consult with; to discuss; to confer; to deliberate

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

to pass on (a message, thoughts, etc.); to convey; to transmit; to relay; to tell

to pick up

to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf

to write (a new novel, play, song, etc.); to write (an original work for a specific purpose); to write specially (for)

to write out; to make a fair copy; to rewrite

to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be anxious (to do); to fret

to raise; to elevate

to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than

to sprawl; to lie sprawled; to stretch oneself out; to lie relaxed on one's side

to wave; to shake; to swing

to tremble violently; to shudder up; to shake

to clear; to make clear

to revive; to come to oneself; to be restored to life

to cut down; to prune; to reduce; to cut and hang down; to cut shorter

to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply

to prepare; to provide

to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

to pass (e.g. car); to overtake

to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse

to be shut; to close; to be closed

to fight (with); to cross swords; to compete (with)

to run swiftly; to speed; to dash; to rush; to race

to grow old

to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha); to pay one's respects

to buy

to pick out; to single out; to select

to fly away; to flee away; to scatter

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 get off; to abandon (a ship or vehicle)

to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with

to step forward; to volunteer

to survive

to assemble; to put together; to set up; to construct; to build; to compose (a story, poem, etc.)