outstanding; excellent; exceptional; preeminence; distinction; extraordinariness
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated
samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
to cover (smear, sprinkle) (with)
fortress; stronghold; citadel
really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
archeologist; archaeologist
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
anything and everything; just about everything
suffix appended to somebody else's family members
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
if it is not ...; if it does not ...
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly
not just once; more than once; many times; again and again
two times; twice; two degrees
to (an extent); up to; doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; even if ...
nevertheless; at any rate; even so; all things considered; be that as it may
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
management; administration; operation