thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
state secrets; secrets of the state
forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money
settlement out of court; private settlement
negotiations; bargaining; discussions; connection; relationship; relations
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
grandfather; male senior-citizen
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
of course; certainly; naturally
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
to polish; to shine; to burnish; to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
to rescue (someone); to save; to help (out of a difficulty); to save (spiritually); to redeem (from sin); to deliver (from suffering, distress, etc.)
strong pressure; heavy pressure
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
danger; peril; hazard; risk
knowledge; awareness; acceptance; consent; forgiving; pardoning
altitude; height; elevation; high-degree; high-grade; advanced
to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. an idea); to accept (e.g. advice); to harvest; to reap
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
you (plural); all of you; you all
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
fast; quick; early; soon; premature; too soon
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly