profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
the old days; the past; former times; the past ten years; the past decade
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
remarkable; striking; obvious
to buy; to purchase; to value (highly); to think highly of; to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.); to elicit (e.g. sneers)
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
large amount of money; great cost
to swell up; to bulge; to swell (of a budget, population, etc.); to increase significantly; to balloon
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
to carry (something) under cover; to carry concealed
body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
folk tale; folktale; folk story; folklore
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
to well (up); to gush out (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to sweat; to feel emotions (e.g. joy, bravery, etc.); to spring up (e.g. an idea, emotions, clouds)
reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive
to try to do; to attempt to do
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
equal division (of profits, prize money, etc.); equal split
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
to be attached; to be connected with; to remain imprinted; to scar; to bear (fruit, interest, etc.); to be acquired (of a habit, ability, etc.); to increase (of strength, etc.)
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.
treating someone (to food or drink); dinner; wonderful food; (arch.) running about